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first premise fixes the definition of phenomenon. "Whatever can be known or conceived only when something else is known or conceived along with it, is a phenomenon, or the phenomenal." But whatever can only be so known or conceived, cannot be known or conceived by itself. Therefore there is no mere phenomenal in cognition; in other words, the phenomenal by itself is absolutely unknowable and inconceivable.

1. Fourteenth counter-proposition.—"There is nothing but the phenomenal in cognition; in other words, the phenomenal alone is knowable and conceivable by us."