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Out of curiosity then, what does it mean?

• woodruffw 10y ago
  [0] is more immediately relevant, but the OP was probably referring in part to Kant's theory of noumena/phenomena [1]. By "absolute of all conditionals," they probably meant "the most final of all questions." Kant didn't mean it like this, but a good example is the following chain of questioning: "Why is the sky blue?" -> "Why is the sky?" -> "Why is?" Such questions, as Kant (and the OP) point out, ultimately hinge upon things not empirically observable (phenomena), but upon noumena instead. [0]: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant-spacetime/#AbsoVsReal https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant-spacetime/#AbsoVsRea... [1]: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant-transcendental-idealism/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant-transcendental-ideal...