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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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How then is the subsumption of the latter under the former, and consequently the application of the categories to phenomena, possible?--For it is impossible to say, for example; "Causality can be intuited through the senses and is contained in the phenomenon."--This natural and important question forms the real cause of the necessity of a transcendental doctrine of the faculty of judgement, with the purpose, to wit, of showing how pure conceptions of the understanding can be applied to phenomena.

 For it cannot be alleged that, instead of the laws of nature, laws of freedom may be introduced into the causality of the course of nature. Thus, the law of succession of time is in all instances the only empirical criterion of effect in relation to the causality of the antecedent cause. Now this again presupposes, in conformity with the law of nature, a previous condition and its causality, and this another anterior to the former, and so on.