 A synthetic judgment then accords with the law of determinability when its predicate is a real determination of the subject (i.e., when its predicate is asymmetrically dependent upon its subject). Thus, for example, in the synthesis ‘straight line’, the predicate ‘straight’ is a real determination of the subject ‘line’, since one can think of the subject without the concept of the predicate, while one can conceive of straightness only through the concept of a line. In an empirical synthesis, such as, ‘red line’, the predicate is merely an arbitrary determination insofar as our intellect does not decipher any internal connection and dependence between the subject and the predicate (and since we can easily imagine other subjects having the same predicate) (GW II, 92–3 | VT 92–3). 