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Cause and Ground

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

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It is the true function of thought, Lotze said, to show “how absolutely universal is the extent, and at the same time how completely subordinate the significance, of the mission which mechanism has to fulfil in the structure of the world.” I do not propose to discuss the problem of mechanism versus teleology, but rather to point out and emphasize the importance of a distinction, drawn alike by Plato and Kant, between a narrower and a wider kind of determination, and to indicate the subordinate character of the former.

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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1931

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References

page 460 note 1 (50 A).

page 462 note 1 Von dem ersten Gründe des Unterschiedes der Gegenden im Raume.

page 462 note 2 Beweisgrund.

page 465 note 1 Kant's Conception of God (Allen & Unwin, Ltd.), Chapter VI.

page 467 note 1 § 66; cp. §§ 70 and 72.

page 468 note 1 § 75.