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- From which continued perception, it ascribes a continued existence and identity to the object.
When we reason from cause and effect, we conclude, that neither colour, sound, taste, nor smell have a continued and independent existence. The answer is; It is the existence of the world which renders this hypothesis necessary. And this actually is the case with all hypothetical arguments, or reasonings upon a supposition; there being in them, neither any present impression, nor belief of a real existence, With this purpose, we reason from an actual existence--an experience in general, to an absolutely necessary condition of that existence. For change does not affect time itself, but only the phenomena in time (just as coexistence cannot be regarded as a modus of time itself, seeing that in time no parts are coexistent, but all successive). Thus reason was seduced from her natural courage; and, instead of concluding with the conception of an ens realissimum, an attempt was made to begin with it, for the purpose of inferring from it that idea of a necessary existence which it was in fact called in to complete. On the contrary, the rule of the understanding, through which alone the existence of phenomena can receive synthetical unity as regards relations of time, determines for every phenomenon its position in time, and consequently a priori, and with validity for all and every time. A like reasoning will account for the idea of external existence.