The Science of Logic

The thesis and antithesis and their proofs produce nothing more, therefore, than the opposed claims, that a limit is, and that the limit is just as much a sublated one; that the limit has a beyond with which it is however connected and into which it must pass, but in which there arises, however, another such limit, which is no limit. The solution of these antinomies, as of those previously mentioned, is transcendental, that is, it consists in the assertion of the ideality of space and time as forms of intuition, by which is meant that the world does not contradict itself within, is not something that sublates itself, but that consciousness alone, in its intuition and in the connection of intuition to understanding and reason, is rather the being which is self-contradictory. It is an excessive tenderness for the world to keep contradiction away from it, to transfer it to spirit instead, to reason, and to leave it there unresolved. In fact, spirit is the one which is strong enough that it can endure contradiction, but it is spirit again which knows how to resolve it. But nowhere does the so-called world – call it the objective, real world, or, in the manner of transcendental idealism, subjective intuition and sensecontent determined by the category of the understanding – nowhere, however you call it, does it escape contradiction; but it is not capable of enduring it and for that reason it is left to the mercy of the coming and ceasing to be.