kant appearance

Kant says that in appearance, every effect is an event, or something that happens in time; it must be preceded by a determination of the causality of its cause on which the effect follows according to a constant law. But this determination of the cause to causality must also be something that occurs. Or else the effect would have always existed, and also the cause. the determination of the cause to the act must have arisen among appearances and must also be an event, which also has a cause. but if freedom is to be a property of certain causes of appearances, it must be a faculty of beginning them of itself. But then the cause would not have to stand under time-determination of its state. it would have to be taken as a thing itself, but the effects would have to be taken only as appearances. If one can think such an influence of beings of the understanding of appearances without contradiction, the natural necessity will inhere in all connection of cause and effect in the world of the senses, but freedom will have to be conceded to that cause which is not itself appearance; nature and freedom will be capable of being attributed without contradiction to the same thing; but in a different regard; to it as appearance and to it as the thing itself.