And indeed one regards the causality of reason not as a mere concurrence with other causes, but as complete in itself, even if sensuous incentives were not for it but were indeed entirely against it; the action is ascribed to the agent's intelligible character: now, in the moment when he lies, it is en tirely his fault; hence reason, regardless of all empirical conditions of the deed, is fully free, and this deed is to be attributed entirely to its fail ure to actf In this judgment of imputation, it is easy to see that one has the thoughts that reason is not affected at all by that sensibility, that it does a Princip Mensch kiinne (singular present subjunctive, indicating that the lie is the subject); in the first edition, the text reads kiinnen (plural, indicating that the consequences as well are included in the subject of the verb along with the lie).