The Positive Outcome of Philosophy

ly studying details. If we arc aware that it is a law of reason to require some perceptible material, some cause, for its operation, then the question regarding the first or general cause becomes superfluous. Human understanding is then seen to be first and last cause of all concrete causes. If we understand that it is a law of reason to require for its operation some given object, smc beginning at which to start, then the question i,l the first beginning must necessarily become inane. Il we understand that reason derives abstract units out of concrete multiplicities, that it constructs truth out of phenomena, substance out of attributes, that it perceives all things as parts of a whole, as individuals of some genus, as qualities of some object, ilicn the question regarding a "thing itself," a something which in reality is back of all things, must "teds become irrelevant. In brief, the understanding i,l the interdependence of reason reveals the unreasonableness of the demand for independent reason. itaphysics, ieginnings, enience to eds of the ioeculation, , not sulfice as the theo- g to which s operation. ess thought, y, viVvch pre- :rcourse with ionsttate thii their tangihle ute over r the .Is that here ,6 ion ever)" a with . of speculate Akve in selves," themselv: . studies, f the dictions. It is the nature of the mind to perc. given phenomena of different dimensions and d duration, the nature of things by their semblan their semblance by ...