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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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The contradiction betwixt these opinions we elude by a new fiction, which is conformable to the hypotheses both of reflection and fancy, by ascribing these contrary qualities to different existences; the interruption to perceptions, and the continuance to objects. Thus we are obliged to acknowledge the existence of a chain of causes, in which, however, absolute totality cannot be found. They as little produce the opinion of a distinct existence, because they neither can offer it to the mind as represented, nor as original. By nature, in the empirical sense of the word, we understand the totality of phenomena connected, in respect of their existence, according to necessary rules, that is, laws. Under this last head I comprehend their situation as well as relations, their external position as well as the independence of their existence and operation.