Appearances are not things in themselves, they are representations which in turn have their object (which cannot be intuited by us) which may be named the non-empirical (transcendental) object =X.

• 这些显象并不是物自身，而本身只是表象，表象又有其对象，因而其对象不再能够被我们直观，故而可以被称为非经验性的对象，亦即先验的对象=X。