Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1007/en

To gain an entry into this complex of questions, the following must be held fast: "The sense-perceptible worldview is the sum of self-metamorphosing perceptual contents without any underlying matter." The perceptions we make of a sense-perceptible object stimulate thinking toward the formation of concepts that seek to grasp the properties of that object. Thus the substance-elements of the periodic system each characterise themselves through specific properties that are the expression of something which does not become appearance — that therefore does not belong to arising and passing away in time and space. Matter, however, is conceived as the continuum, the enduring thing in time and space, without itself being sense-perceptible appearance and without being subject to the building-up and breaking-down forces that work in time and space. What steps into appearance are the conceptually graspable properties. They are projections of something supra-spatiotemporal, something supersensible — of the being of this or that substance. They constitute themselves