But freedom is a mere Idea, the objective reality of which can in no wise be shown according to the laws of nature, and consequently not in any possi… - Immanuel Kant

For if phenomena are things by themselves, freedom cannot be saved. Nature in that case is the complete and sufficient cause determining every event, and its condition is always contained in that series of phenomena only which, together with their effect, are necessary under the law of nature.

Freedom (independence) from the laws of nature is no doubt a liberation from restraint, but also from the guidance of all rules.

There are such manifold forms of nature; there are many modifications of the general transcendental concepts of nature that are left undetermined by the laws furnished by pure intellect a priori because these laws only concern the general possibility of nature as an object of the senses.