Now, if we are to think as an object this thing-in-itself (we wish to retain the Kantian expression as a standing formula), which, as such, is never object, because all object is its mere manifestation, and therefore cannot be it itself, we must borrow for it the name and concept of an object, of something in some way objectively given, consequently of one of its own manifestations.
Berbaitango gauza hau (adierazpide kantiar hori gorde nahi dugu behin betiko formula gisa), bere horretan inoiz objektu ez dena, hain zuzen ere objektu oro bere agerpen soil delako, eta ez bera, baldin eta objektiboki pentsatua izatekotan, objektu baten izena eta kontzeptua mailegatu behar ditu, objektiboki nonbait emandako zerbaitetatik, ondorioz bere agerpenetako batetik: