SUBSTANCE AND ACCIDENTS

[A184/B227] In the First Analogy, Kant concludes: "All existence and all change in time thus have to be viewed as simply a mode of the existence of that which remains and persists. In all appearances the permanent is the object itself, that is, substance as phenomenon; everything, on the other hand, which changes or can change belongs only to the way in which substance or substances exist, and therefore to their determinations....The only difference in this matter between the common man and the philosopher is that the latter expresses himself somewhat more definitely, asserting that throughout all changes in the world remains substance remains, and that only the accidents change".