ABSTRACT
Human experience or human knowledge has been analysed in a rather simple way. The mysteries of the world we know and of the way we know it and of what may lie beyond our knowledge are endless; but some thinkers have found especially mysterious the fact that if we try to think about the world as a whole, we seem to fall into contradictions which are known technically as antinomies. Some indication of this has already been given in our account of the cosmological argument for a first cause or a necessary being. It will be enough here to mention a simpler example from Immanuel Kant. Kant's doctrine of the antinomies bears some resemblance to the logical paradoxes which have so exercised modern philosophers, and it might seem to have a similar claim for consideration. The Kantian doctrine may well require reconsideration and restatement.
