Parler du tout, parler de rien: L'inconsistance de toute cosmologie rationnelle et la quatrième antinomie de la raison pure.

This study points out four important weaknesses in the construction of the Fourth Antinomy of Pure Reason, which reveal its intrinsic instability. The analysis shows that these argumentative weaknesses do not stem from contingent awkwardness. They prove the insubstantial nature of a cosmological theme which, when the question is about modality, cannot support any real dialectic. The rational quest for absolute necessity, which indeed arises in a cosmological context, can only lead to a theological question - which breeds an illusion too, but a much more substantial one. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]