[1525] Cf. Kant’s Observation on the thesis.
[1526] A 451 = B 479.
[1527] Cf. also A 451 = B 479.
[1528] Cf. Schopenhauer, op. cit. p. 591; Eng. trans. p. 113. “The fourth conflict is ... really tautological with the third; and the proof of the thesis is also essentially the same as that of the preceding one. Kant’s assertion that every conditioned presupposes a complete series of conditions, and therefore a series which ends with an unconditioned, is a petitio principii which must simply be denied. Everything conditioned presupposes nothing but its condition; that this is again conditioned raises a new consideration which is not directly contained in the first.”
[1529] Above, p. 494.
[1530] A 459 = B 487.
[1531] Jean Jacques Dortous de Mairan (1678-1771), physicist and mathematician. In 1740 he succeeded Fontenelle as perpetual Secretary of the French Academy of Sciences.
[1532] Cf. above, pp. 435, 495 n. 4.
[1533] A 448-50 = B 476-8.
[1534] Cf. above, p. 427 ff.; below, pp. 520-1, 527-37, 541 ff.