metaphysics
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Possibility isn’t the default – 6th week of Kant
Álvaro Rodríguez-González
Possibility is only definable in terms of there not being a conflict between certain combined concepts; thus the concept of possibility is the product of a comparison. But in every comparison the things which are to be compared must be available for comparison, and where nothing at all is given there is no room for…
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How the world must be (or why two-standpoints may be a dud) – 2nd week of Kant
Álvaro Rodríguez-González
Now, if one takes the determinations of the existence of things in time for determinations of things in themselves (which is the most usual way of representing them), then the necessity in the causal relation can in no way be united with freedom; instead they are opposed to each other as contradictory. For, from the…