Proof Suppose there were a freedom in the transcendental sense, as a special kind of causality in accordance with which the occurrences of the world could follow, namely a faculty of absolutely beginning a state, and hence also a series of its consequences; then not only will a series begin ab solutely through this spontaneity, but the det ination of this spon taneity itself to produce the series,.e., its causality, will begin absolutely, so that nothing precedes it through which this occurring action is deter mined in accordance with constant laws.