It will always be a source of wonder how the Kantian philosophy did acknowledge that the relation of thought to sensuous existence (the relation at which it stopped) is only a relation of mere appearance, and also well recognized in the idea in general a higher unity of those two terms, even gave expression to it, as for example in the idea of an intuitive understanding, and yet stopped short at that relative relation and at the claim that the concept remains utterly separate from reality thus asserting as truth what it declared to be finite cognition, and explaining away as extravagant and illegitimate figments of thought what it recognized as truth and had specifically defined as such.