This paper explores conceptual frameworks for overcoming antinomies in philosophical thought, arguing that this overcoming happens at a system's real genesis. It traces thinkers like Cavaillès, Châtelet, Peirce, and Malaspina, suggesting a 'third space'—an abductive hinge of real genesis—that precedes and activates polarities like transcendental/historical or rational/empirical. This genetic realism demands grasping a system's real genetic conditions without pre-given criteria. The paper aims to reconfigure the conceptual landscape around this genetic tension, encouraging generative models for systematic thought.

Will Fraser