It was solved by showing that there is no real contradiction when the events and even the world in which they occur are regarded (as they ought to be) merely as appearances; since one and the same acting being, as an appearance (even to his own inner sense), has a causality in the world of sense that always conforms to the mechanism of nature, but with respect to the same events, so far as the acting person regards himself at the same time as a noumenon (as pure intelligence in an existence not dependent on the condition of time), he can contain a principle by which that causality acting according to laws of nature is determined, but which is itself free from all laws of nature.
Gatazka hori gainditu zen egiazko gatazka ez zela frogatuz, gertaerak eta horien kokalekua den mundua bera ere agerpen gisa (egin behar den bezala) ikusten direnean; zerizan ekile bat eta berberak agerpen gisa (bere barne sentsuaren aurrean ere) sentsuen munduan beti natur mekanismoaren araberakoa den kausalitatea daukanez, baina gertaera berberari dagokionez, pertsona ekilea aldi berean noumeno gisa ikusten den heinean (adimendu huts gisa, denboraren arabera determinagarri ez den izatean), horrek natur legeen araberako kausalitate haren determinazio-oinarri bat barnebil dezake, bere aldetik natur lege orotatik aske izanik.