----- Original Message ---- From: Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com>
What they are is antinomies of (somewhat) pure reason, a contradiction in the way the human mind understands causality (infinite regress vs. everything having a first cause).
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[WS:] Logically, yes, but logic does not exist in a vacuum or the realm of ideas, but in the human brain. That means that preferences for any of these antinomies are rooted in the cognitive functioning of the brain. That is to say, the choice between two (or more) antinomies is made by a living human brain and that choice is affected, ceteris paribus, by cognitive frames ingrained in the neural structure of that brain (i.e. people who crave order will select determinism over historcism, if they are in a position to make such a choice.)
Wojtek