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part propositions contradicting the foregoing, is 

 an illusion arising from neglect of the differences 

 between object and subject. Subjective space, time, 

 and causation have, to be sure, a qiiasi-\x\'^xvity \ 

 yet our authentic thought, even about them, dis- 

 solves this illusion, and agrees with reality, as soon 

 as the understanding brings its dialectic to bear. 

 Here, then, concludes Duhring, the whole Kantian 

 fog-bank of "antinomies" is explained and scattered. 

 One series of Kant's pairs of counter-judgments is 

 entirely true ; the other comes from the false-infinite, 

 and is the work of the imagination, uncritically mis- 

 taken by Kant for the understanding. 



From this point onward, then, the metaphysics 

 of the Actual may freely proceed. The Actual as 

 absolute, as to its veritable Being, is eternal ; time 

 and causation apply, not to its inmost existence, 

 but only to its processional changes. Neverthe- 

 less, this differentiation is just as necessarily in- 

 volved in its nature as its abiding identity. The 

 system of changes called the sensible world must 

 accordingly, at some instant or other, have strictly 

 begun. Thenceforward the Actual, poured in its 

 entirety into these changes, moves in a gradually 

 varying, many-branching Figure, whose elementary 

 components are of constant dimensions and num- 

 ber, but whose shape is undergoing incessant alter- 

 ation, giving rise, from epoch to epoch, to forms of 



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