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In the 1787 Introduction to the first Critique Kant maintains this problem of cognitive grounding can be overcome by acknowledging that, while reason must postulate the ˜unconditioned (...) in all things in themselves for everything conditioned, so that the series of conditions should thus become complete™, by restricting knowledge to appearances, rather than allowing it to be of ˜things in themselves™, the contradiction of seeking conditions of the unconditioned can be avoided.

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling Bowie, Andrew 2001

For the mere fact that I throw away, by means of the word unconditioned, all the conditions which the understanding habitually requires in order to regard anything as necessary, is very far from making clear whether by means of the conception of the unconditionally necessary I think of something, or really of nothing at all.

Blowing Hot and Cold Coetzee, J.M. 1997

For the mere fact that I throw away, by means of the word unconditioned, all the conditions which the understanding habitually requires in order to regard anything as necessary, is very far from making clear whether by means of the conception of the unconditionally necessary I think of something, or really of nothing at all.

The Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant 1764

In the other form of exile, read, for _precisos, voluntarios_ ( "at will"), which may be translated "unconditioned" -- that is, he might choose his place of residence.

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 07 of 55 1588-1591 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century Edward Gaylord Bourne 1884

To cast off human obligations and enter into the unconditioned is the true repayment of blessings.

Blood Ninja II Nick Lake 2010

To cast off human obligations and enter into the unconditioned is the true repayment of blessings.

Blood Ninja II Nick Lake 2010

To cast off human obligations and enter into the unconditioned is the true repayment of blessings.

Blood Ninja II Nick Lake 2010

It is the glory of transcendental idealism that by it the mind ascends in the series of conditions till it reaches the unconditioned, that is, the principles.

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics Various 1910

In fact, whether man attributes to each object a special spirit or genius, or conceives the universe as governed by a single power, he in either case but SUPPOSES an unconditioned, that is, an impossible, entity, that he may deduce therefrom an explanation of such phenomena as he deems inconceivable on any other hypothesis.

System of Economical Contradictions: or, the Philosophy of Misery 1888

If the mind, in every act of thought, imposes its own forms on its objects, to think is to condition, and the unconditioned is the unthinkable.

The Philosophy of the Conditioned Henry Longueville Mansel 1845