To this inference he objects (Critique of Reason, 'that, even if we grant to the soul this simple nature, namely, that it contains no manifold of parts outside one another, and hence no extensive magnitude, one nevertheless cannot deny to it, anymore than to any other existing thing, intensive magnitude, that is, a degree of reality in regard to all its faculties, indeed to everything in general that constitutes its existence, which might diminish by infinitely many smaller degrees, and thus the alleged substance could be transformed into nothing, although not by disintegration, but by a gradual remission (remissio) of its powers; for even consciousness always has a degree, which can always be diminished; consequently, so does the faculty of being conscious of itself, and likewise with all other faculties.'