Kant was the first thinker to see that the presupposition of this unity of formal logic and being was a subreption . In fact, logic and metaphysics fall apart; even more, they contradict each other, as is evident in the history of pre-Kantian philosophy itself.

There are other reasons too, like systematic disorder which is caused by these activities and also subreption is another reason.

Chapter Three turns to Kant's critical philosophy to examine how Kant's "as if" prescription maintains a tenuous difference between analogy, as a necessary precondition of thought, and the error of subreption , which involves "a set of possible confusions concerning the distinction between subjective and objective conditions of knowledge" (80).

1981) ("The presence or absence of subreption and misappropriation is certainly a significant factor in deciding whether employee conduct is a protected exercise of a section 7 right.").

The incessant production of cultural memory aspires to the public sphere by a species of " subreption " (Kant), expressing the built-in or constitutive character of the production of cultural memory.

The sublime, says Kant, always involves a " subreption " (88) by which we ascribe to some natural phenomenon a fear, awe or respect which, in actual fact, belongs to something taking place within our own subjectivity.

Following is discussion of Immanuel Kant and what he calls the "error of subreption ," and then two chapters on literature and the debates about language and thought.

Forest Pyle, "'By a Certain Subreption ': Gayatri Spivak and the 'Lever' of the Aesthetic," Interventions 4 (2002): 186-190; at 187.