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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER XII. THE ANTITHETIC OF PURE REASON, AND THE CRITICISM OF RATIONAL COSMOLOGY. RATIONAL Cosmology deals with the idea of the world Stho . i.. ., . .. j T world with the as a totality of phenomena in one time and space. In hypothetical syllogism. this world, as transcendental Logic has shown, every phenomenon is determined in relation to other phenomena. It is determined in time, by relation to preceding and coexisting phenomena; in space, by relation to coexisting phenomena; and except through such relations it could not be determined as an object at all. Yet such determination of phenomenon by phenomenon is never complete and final; for the determining phenomenon requires to be determined by another phenomenon, and that by another, and so on ad infinitum. If, then, reason demands a complete and final determination of objects in the phenomenal world, it demands something which, in this region of knowledge at least, can never be attained. For here every answer gives birth to a new question, and no conclusive answer can ever be given. Now, that reason does make such a demand, has already been shown. The hypothetical syllogism of formal Logic puts us on the track of an idea of reason which should express the completion of the empirical regress, and so enable us to comprehend the world of phenomena as a whole, bounded and limited only by itself. J J This idea given Now, the peculiarity of the problems of reason which are connected with this idea is, that they immediately take the form of dilemmas. They offer us a choice of alternatives, in one or other of which, according to the law of excluded middle, truth must lie. The ' unconditioned totality of phenomenal synthesis' must consist either in a finite or infinite series, in- a series which has, ...