For if one assumes and employs the transcendental ideas in such a way, then one can grasp the whole chain of conditions fully a priori and comprehend the derivation of the conditioned, starting with the uncon ditioned, which the antithesis cannot do; this gives it a bad recommen dation, since it can give no answers to questions about the conditions of their synthesis that do not leave something out, and with its answers further questions without any end are always left over.