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Click on the phrases to see them in context. The original texts by Immanuel Kant and David Hume are available from the Gutenberg Projet.

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Let it be supposed, that there is no other kind of causality than that according to the laws of nature.

 It is, however, the true stumbling-stone to philosophy, which meets with unconquerable difficulties in the way of its admitting this kind of unconditioned causality. It is, however, the true stumbling-stone to philosophy, which meets with unconquerable difficulties in the way of its admitting this kind of unconditioned causality. Our endeavour to reach, not the unconditioned causality, but the unconditioned existence, of substance. 

This conception of causality leads us to the conception of action; that of action, to the conception of force; and through it, to the conception of substance.

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