Yet the action of the supposed free cause must be imagined as independent of all connexion with any previous event. It is without law or reason, and would be the blind realization of confusion and lawlessness. Therefore transcendental freedom is a violation of the law of causation, and is in conflict with all experience. We must of necessity acquiesce in the explanation of all phenomena by the operation of natural law, and thus transcendental freedom must be pronounced a fallacy. Some form of absolutely necessary existence belongs to the world, whether as its part or as its cause.
Phenomenal existence is serial, mutable, consistent.
Every event is contingent upon a preceding condition. The conditioned presupposes, for its complete explanation, the unconditioned. There is no absolutely necessary existence, whether in the world as its part, or outside of it as its cause. Of unconditionally necessary existence within the world there can be none. The assumption of a first unconditioned link in the chain of cosmical conditions is self-contradictory.