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We have the Internet. If the parent commenter thought a more digestible summary or paraphrase of "the absolute of all conditionals" would have been helpful, the
by bgilroy26 10y ago
We have the Internet. If the parent commenter thought a more digestible summary or paraphrase of "the absolute of all conditionals" would have been helpful, they would have written it that way.
If you're frustrated that it's opaque, and you care about understand the chance to do so is as near as googling "Kant absolute of all conditionals".
If you don't care about understanding, why complain?
- consz 10y agoI spent about a minute looking at the results for "Kant absolute of all conditionals" on google, that phrase doesn't have any close hits, I think its fair to describe this phrase as non-trivial to understand just through googling, so I think your snark is unwarranted.
- sesqu 10y agoI spent a minute looking at the results of that phrase on ddg, and got a hit on the book in question. While it's not a direct quote, a search of the book finds this line: > On the one hand: We set limits to reason, preventing it from leaving the guiding-thread of empirical conditions and straying into the transcendent and explaining things in terms that can’t be cashed out empirically. And also, on the other hand (this being my present point): We set limits to the law of the purely empirical use of the understanding, preventing it from making decisions about the possibility of things in general—i.e. of things of any sort—and ruling that intelligible things are not merely incapable of explaining appearances but are impossible. I assume that's what OP meant.
- umanwizard 10y agoAre you trolling or something? I did google it and there were no relevant results. Putting "absolute of all conditionals" into Google gives a bunch of stuff about absolute convergence in calculus without quotes, and no results at all with quotes.