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Mechanism can't support critical philosophy

The mechanistic philosophy is inadequate to support critical philosophy because mechanistic explanations tend to ignore the assumption of a purposive designer.

Immanuel Kent (1790).

Note: Spinoza is only one of many authors that Kant criticises with this kind of argument.
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