Immanuel Kant — Critique of Pure Reason — the impossibility of a cosmological proof

“The transcendental principle: "Everything that is contingent must have a cause"—a principle without significance, except in the sensuous world. For the purely intellectual conception of the contingent cannot produce any synthetical proposition, like that of causality … But in the present case it is employed to help us beyond the limits of its sphere.”

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