Now, if the desire for this object precedes the practical rule and is the condition of our making it a principle, then I say (in the first place) this principle is in that case wholly empirical, for then what determines the choice is the idea of an object and that relation of this idea to the subject by which its faculty of desire is determined to its realization.
Objektu horren desira erregela praktikoaren aurretik badator eta hura printzipio bihurtzeko baldintza bada, orduan diot (lehenik): printzipio hori enpirikoa da beti. Izan ere, nahieraren determinazio-oinarria objektu baten errepresentazioa da eta horren halako erlazioa subjektuarekin, ezen desiramena hura egikaritzera determinatzen baitu.