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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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Hence we were unable to demonstrate it from the conception of a given object of external intuition (of the composite), but we were obliged to prove it from the relation of a given object to a possible experience in general. Meanwhile, with respect to these conceptions, as with respect to all our cognition, we certainly may discover in experience, if not the principle of their possibility, yet the occasioning causes of their production. For it is not the idea itself, but only the employment of the idea in relation to possible experience, that is transcendent or immanent. It assumed that the only immediate experience is internal and that from this we can only infer the existence of external things. The objects of experience then are not things in themselves, but are given only in experience, and have no existence apart from and independently of experience.