Note 68 — Chapter III · The Ideal of Pure Reason
J. M. D. (John Miller Dow) Meiklejohn translation
This inference is too well known to require more detailed discussion. It is based upon the spurious transcendental law of causality, that everything which is contingent has a cause, which, if itself contingent, must also have a cause; and so on, till the series of subordinated causes must end with an absolutely necessary cause, without which it would not possess completeness.