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    Reason's transcendental ideas of the unconditioned can never provide theoretical knowledge of any object

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    • 1.Knowledge requires both intuition and concept
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    • 2.Intuition is always conditioned — the representation of any region of space is conditioned by more surrounding space, and any region of time is conditioned by more time before and after it
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    • 3.Reason forms ideas of unconditioned entities (the self as substance, a completed world-whole, and God) that by definition exceed all conditions
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    • 1.Hegel argues that Kant's prohibition on theoretical knowledge of the unconditioned itself presupposes a determinate concept of what lies beyond conceptual reach.
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    • 2.A limit can only be identified by a cognition that already grasps what lies on both sides of it, so Kant's critical boundary-drawing covertly claims the very unconditioned knowledge it denies.
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    • 3.Therefore the Kantian restriction is self-undermining: reason demonstrates its grasp of the unconditioned in the very act of pronouncing that grasp impossible.
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    • 1.Aristotelian-Thomistic natural theology holds that analogical predication allows finite concepts to extend to infinite being without requiring sensory intuition of that being.
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    • 2.If concepts can function cognitively through analogy rather than direct intuition, Kant's P1 — that knowledge requires intuition — is not a universal constraint but an assumption tied to his specific faculty psychology.
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    • 3.Aquinas's Five Ways thus constitute a standing counter-example: inferential chains from conditioned effects yield genuine, if analogical, theoretical knowledge of an unconditioned cause.
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    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
    Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.

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    The Transcendental Dialectic, the second half of the Critique of Pure Reason in which Kant provides the critique of traditional metaphysics is explicitly intended to give an indirect proof of transcendental idealism (B xx). Specifically, the middle section of the Dialectic, entitled “The Antinomy of Pure Reason”, is supposed to provide this indirect proof. All three sections of the Dialectic, thus the preceding “Paralogisms of Pure Reason” and the following “Ideal of Pure Reason”, are supposed t
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    Knowledge requires both intuition and concept
    Reason forms ideas of unconditioned entities (the self as substance, a completed...
    Therefore the Kantian restriction is self-undermining: reason demonstrates its g...
    Therefore these ideas outrun the limits of intuition
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