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An Intelligible world (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠one in which everything is actual simply because, being good, it is possible.

The Intelligible world (n.) arises ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠from an excusable but unjustifiable mistake: making objects conform to concepts instead of concepts to possible intuitions.

The Intelligible world (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠given to us as actual only in a practical respect: what would be extravagant for theory is, for action, immanent.

The Intelligible world (n.) as ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a positive realm cannot be permitted at all: concepts may be divided into sensible and intellectual, but objects may not.

The Intelligible world (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠nothing but the concept of a world in general with all conditions of intuiting it stripped away — about which no synthetic proposition, yes or no, is possible.

The Intelligible world (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a legitimate idea for rational belief though all knowledge stops at its threshold: it kindles interest in the moral law through the ideal of a universal kingdom of ends.

The Intelligible world (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠archetypal nature, the world of understanding we cognize only in reason; ectypal nature is its copy, which ought to exist in the world of sense.

The Intelligible world (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠nothing but the representation of a problem whose object is perfectly possible in itself but whose solution, given our understanding, is completely impossible.

The Intelligible world (n.) was ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠granted sole reality by the earliest philosophers because they took appearance and illusion to be one and the same — excusable in an uncultivated age.

The Intelligible world (n.) signifies ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠only the something that remains over when everything sensible is eliminated from the will's motives — it fences in sensibility and shows there is more beyond it, but this more I know no further.

The Intelligible world (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the vacant place speculative reason kept open for the unconditioned — and which pure practical reason now fills with a determinate law, the moral law.

The Intelligible world (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠only a standpoint reason is compelled to take outside appearances in order to think itself practical; to borrow any motive from it would be to pretend to know what it knows nothing of.

The Intelligible world (n.) made ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠out of astronomy explained by Copernicus or Newton, as against astronomy merely observed, is a perversion of words, a sophistical evasion that shrinks a troublesome question into a commonplace.

The Intelligible world (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the tempting thought that, if the senses show things as they appear, the understanding must show them as they are — an entirely different field, a world thought in spirit, even more nobly occupying the understanding.