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Often appears with: world as whole (finite or infinite) · transcendental ideality of phenomena · perception and the senses · limits of reason · fate, destiny, and necessity · cosmological antinomy
Usually: argument (1) · detachment (1) · skepticism (1)
“Therefore the world—the content of all phenomena—is not a whole existing in itself.” Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Pure Reason · insight
Kant argues the cosmological antinomy vanishes because its contradiction arises from treating the idea of absolute totality as applying to phenomena, then shows this yields an indirect proof that phenomena have transcendental ideality.
as a series of subordinate representations, it subsists only in the dynamical regress and cannot be regarded as existing previously to this regress, or as a self-subsistent series of things. Thus the antinomy of pure reason in its cosmological ideas disappears. For the above demonstration has established the fact that it is merely the product of a dialectical and illusory opposition, which arises from the applicatio…