It is clear how this fundamental time this time on the basis of which time can be given to experience is different from that which was active in the philosophy of representation: then, time dispersed representation, since it imposed the form of a linear sequence upon it; but representation was able to reconstitute itself for itself in imagination, and thus to duplicate itself perfectly and to subjugate time; the image made it possible to reapprehend time in its entirety, to recover what had been conceded to succession, and to construct a knowledge as true as that of an eternal understanding.