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[ Bedingung ] see also absolute , accident , appearance , causality , dialectic , experience , intuition , space , succession , time Appearances are conditioned by space and time, while judgements are conditioned by ‘the unification of given representations in a consciousness’. Together they form the conditions for objects of possible experience, and the knowledge of such objects. Reason, however, strives for the unconditioned in knowledge and experience, and when it infers an unconditioned or absolute on the basis of an extended series of conditions it exceeds the bounds of possible objects and legitimate knowledge of experience. Kant calls such illegitimate inferences of the unconditioned from the conditioned ‘dialectical’, and gives an analysis of them in the ‘Transcendental Dialectic’ of CPR. ... log in or subscribe to read full text