This difference is the gap between reason’s actual...

This difference is the gap between reason’s actual attainments and its own irrepressible demands; it recurrently determines the failure of reason to complete its synthetic work. The line of critique, stably drawn in the Analytic between the field of possible contents of experience and that which transcends this field, accordingly becomes destabilized .

The work of reason’s self-critique becomes a practically endless dialogue, an ever-renewed questioning of the claims of positive knowledge and a critical interrogation of its intrinsic claims to totality. The line that critique draws between truth and illusion becomes, rather than a…