The first difference (the fact that the transcendentals are situated with the object) explains the origin of those metaphysical doctrines that, despite their post Kantian chronology, appear as 'pre critical': they do, in fact, avoid any analysis of the conditions of knowledge as they may be revealed at the level of transcendental subjectivity; but these metaphysics develop on the basis of transcendental objectives (the Word of God, Will, Life) which are possible only in so far as thedomain of representation has been previously limited; they therefore have the same archaeological subsoil as Criticism itself.