Hence just as the paralogism of pure reason laid the ground for a dialectical psychology, so the antin omy of pure reason will put before our eyes the transcendental principles of an alleged pure (rational) cosmology, yet not in order to find it valid and to appropriate it, but rather, as is already indicated by terming it a contradiction of reason, in order to display it in its dazzling but false plausibility a as an idea that cannot be made to agree with appearances.