3274. Meanwhile, while they are going toward the ninth use, they know the objects, together with their immediate use, or the nearest use removed from the object (for now they maintain that they care nothing about the object, only about the use of the object). Thus they know this use vaguely, advancing from it into ever greater clarity as they progress by stages, even to the ninth, which they think they see as clear, indeed as most clear, because that is their character.