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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.

 The causality of the necessary cause of changes, and consequently the cause itself, must for these reasons belong to time--and to phenomena, time being possible only as the form of phenomena. 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. Is it not rather possible that, although every effect in the phenomenal world must be connected with an empirical cause, according to the universal law of nature, this empirical causality may be itself the effect of a non-empirical and intelligible causality--its connection with natural causes remaining nevertheless intact? If I introduce even a few people to my supplier so to speak.