We can make sense of the antinomy only when we understand and accept that our cognition has two modes of ordering the world as we encounter it and that both have their place. One pertains to explaining local and discrete changes in space-time; the other kicks in whenever we explore the edges of our knowledge, whenever we ask the big questions of where it all came from, what should I do, and am I making this choice freely or am I constrained. When we use the one in the domain of the other, when we think mechanistically about our obligations or the whole of creation, or when we apply
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