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pudendum of the metaphysicians! The error of the spirit as cause mistaken for reality! And made the very measure of reality! And called God! 4 The error of imaginary causes. To be

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the disputes in which metaphysicians . . . without critique inevitably become involved" [Kant, Critique of Pure Reason , pp.31-32, translation revised by T.K.B.]. It is manifestly

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theory from the metaphysicians to the mob—obscured by the uproar, but still going on. Rhetoric, like a stealthy plague, was doing its immemorial work. Where men were confronted by

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the rather, as metaphysicians (the ultimate arbiters of all philosophical criticism) while they have busied themselves for two thousand years, more or less, about the few universa

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the disputes in which metaphysicians (and, as such, finally also the clergy) inevitably become involved to the consequent perversion of their teaching. Criticism alone can sever t

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