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The Dialectical illusion (n.) arises ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠from taking the subjective conditions of our thinking for objective conditions of things, and a hypothesis reason needs for a dogma.

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The Dialectical illusion (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠reason's necessary blind spot: the ultimate concepts that guide all thinking can never be demonstrated by any intuition, and the understanding, not noticing the lack, assumes the proof is unnecessary or already done.

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The Dialectical illusion (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠natural, and so will be present in the future too; hence an exhaustive dossier of it must be drawn up and stored in the archives of human reason to prevent future errors.

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The Dialectical illusion (n.) about ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the soul is mistaking the ability to abstract from my empirical existence for the consciousness of a separate existence of my thinking self.