Full Idea
Kant's belief in the necessity of laws is revoked as an instance of aleatory reason's unwarranted pretension to reach beyond the limits of experience.
Clarification
'aleatory' reasoning concerns gambling
Gist of Idea
Kant fails to prove the necessity of laws, because his reasoning about chance is over-ambitious
Source
comment on Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason [1781]) by Quentin Meillassoux - After Finitude; the necessity of contingency 4
Book Reference
Meillassoux: 'After Finitude: the necessity of contingency', ed/tr. Brassier,R [Bloomsbury 2008], p.106
A Reaction
A glimpse of Meillassoux's master argument. He cites Cantor on the uncountable transfinite, claiming that chance in nature involves the transfinite, but normal reasoning about chances should be restricted to what is countable.
Related Idea
Idea 19670 Why are contingent laws of nature stable? [Meillassoux]