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Often appears with: transcendental fallacy · logic, method, and demonstration · illusion in reasoning · fate, destiny, and necessity · cosmological antinomy · conditioned regress
Usually: commentary or gloss (1) · detachment (1) · skepticism (1)
Kant presents the structure of the cosmological antinomy, then explains the fallacy: the major treats the conditioned as a thing in itself, while the minor treats it as a phenomenon given only through successive empirical synthesis.
The antinomy of pure reason is based upon the following dialectical argument: “If that which is conditioned is given, the whole series of its conditions is also given; but sensuous objects are given as conditioned; consequently...” This syllogism, the major of which seems so natural and evident, introduces as many cosmological ideas as there are different kinds of conditions in the synthesis of phenomena, in so far a…