ABSTRACT
This chapter explains that the concepts which Kant entitles cosmological Ideas have found wide acceptance among laymen as well as among philosophers and scientific enquirers. It also examines that he may be fairly accused of treating his metaphysical opponents somewhat unjustly. The chapter explores that he differentiates between two fundamental principles guiding the human mind in its rational reflection upon the universe to be entitled dogmatism and empiricism of pure reason respectively. Kant's first point is that the principle of dogmatism, to which the theses of the antinomies owe their origin, has a certain practical interest on its side. The theses of the antinomies share a common feature: they allow, and in fact demand, the existence of supersensible absolutes. The chapter also focuses on Kant's observations which upon the merits of empiricism as a basic principle of theoretical investigation. Kant works out his general thesis by applying it to the various types of regressive synthesis.
