In the case of the logical estimation of magnitude the impossibility of ever arriving at absolute totality by the progressive measurement of things of the sensible world in time and space was cognized as an objective impossibility, ie one of thinking the infinite as given, and not as simply subjective, ie an incapacity for grasping it; for nothing turns there on the amount of the comprehension in one intuition, as measure, but everything depends on a numerical concept But in an aesthetic estimation of magnitude the numerical concept must drop away or undergo a change.