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recognitions.&quot; This is the foundation which Kant has laid to his 

 teaching. He collected and gathered up many more such 

 erronous thoughts from the philosophers that had come after 

 Zeno and established his theory upon them. Emanuel Kant 

 made the following assertion: &quot;The Ego that thinks (the think 

 ing soul of man) is only a naked form of consciousness by which 

 man recognizes and conceives the things that are external in 

 time and in place. The wisdom of the human mind is not an 

 existence by itself. It does not give the human mind the power 

 to know out of itself things that are beyond the compulsory 

 experience.&quot; Addicing many strange reasons to show how 

 antinomies of logical conclusions may spring up by reasoning 

 without compulsory experience, and how errors lie at the door 

 of paralogism or conclusions drawn from false premises, he 

 gives us the following warning: &quot;Man must not conclude that 

 a thing can be in actual existence, or in realization because it is 

 possible to conceive of it in the mind. &quot; This is precisely Aris- 

 totele s error which has impressed itself upon the minds of all 

 the ancient and modern philosophers and scientists who know 

 not and understand not the quiddity of the mind itself or the 

 methods of judgments. 



Aristotle demonstrated : The existence of actuality must 

 be previous to the existence of potentiality not only according 

 to its own conception (for the conception of potentiality, of the 

 possibility of existing, is only relative to the existence of act 

 uality) but also according to time, for the possibility of existence 

 can be thought of only after it has become manifested in act 

 uality.&quot; 



By this agument he established his conclusion that 

 1 there is a worker in the universe, who is activity itself and 

 that he is the author of all that exists.&quot; The truth, however, is 

 that the existence of actuality must be later and not pre 

 cedent to the existence of potentiality. If a man invents a 

 machine, which has not existed in the world before, he cannot 

 bring it into actual existence before he kows in his mind that it 

 can exist and that he can bring it from his existence of potenial- 

 ity into actual existence. There was a time when there were 



