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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 form of judgements--converted into a conception of the synthesis of intuitions--produced the categories which direct the employment of the understanding in experience. Now it is evident, that this gradual encrease of assurance is nothing but the addition of new probabilities, and is derived from the constant union of causes and effects, according to past experience and observation. The postulate of the possibility of things requires also, that the conception of the things agree with the formal conditions of our experience in general. Reason can never shew us the connexion of one object with another, though aided by experience, and the observation of their constant conjunction in all past instances. The postulate concerning the cognition of the reality of things requires perception, consequently conscious sensation, not indeed immediately, that is, of the object itself, whose existence is to be cognized, but still that the object have some connection with a real perception, in accordance with the analogies of experience, which exhibit all kinds of real connection in experience. All this is an object of the plainest experience, and depends not on any hypothesis of philosophy. According to the precedent doctrine, there are no objects which by the mere survey, without consulting experience, we can determine to be the causes of any other; and no objects, which we can certainly determine in the same manner not to be the causes.