Saturday, October 22, 2005

For let it be granted that it has a beginning. A beginning is an existence which is preceded by a time in which the thing does not exist. On the above supposition, it follows that there must have been a time in which the world did not exist, that is, a void time. But in a void time the origination of a thing is impossible; because no part of any such time contains a distinctive condition of being, in preference to that of non-being (whether the supposed thing originate of itself, or by means of some other cause). Consequently, many series of things may have a beginning in the world, but the world itself cannot have a beginning, and is, therefore, in relation to past time, infinite.
--Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

Neener. I thought these antinomies were old news. The previous article also fails to convince.

And no, Proclus, this doesn't mean I'm a Kantian.

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