Trancendental Empiricism

Empiricism truly becomes transcendental, and aesthetics an apodictic discipline, only when we apprehend directly in the sensible that which can only be sensed, the very being of the sensible:  difference, potential difference and difference in intensity as the reason behind qualitative diversity.  It is in difference that movement is produced as an “effect,” that phenomena flash their meaning like signs.  The intense world of differences, in which we find the reason behind qualities and the being of the sensible, is precisely the object of a superior empiricism.  (DR 57)