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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