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The Critique of Pure Reason

Note 60 — Chapter II · The Antinomy of Pure Reason (continued 2)

J. M. D. (John Miller Dow) Meiklejohn translation

The cosmical series can neither be greater nor smaller than the possible empirical regress, upon which its conception is based. And as this regress cannot be a determinate infinite regress, still less a determinate finite (absolutely limited), it is evident that we cannot regard the world as either finite or infinite, because the regress, which gives us the representation of the world, is neither finite nor infinite.

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