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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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For that which stands in connection with a perception according to the laws of the progress of experience is real. This exact conformity of experience to our reasoning is a convincing proof of the solidity of that hypothesis, upon which we reason. Still less is it a constitutive principle of reason authorizing us to extend our conception of the sensuous world beyond all possible experience. All the conceptions produced, and all the questions raised, by pure reason, do not lie in the sphere of experience, but in that of reason itself, and hence they must be solved, and shown to be either valid or inadmissible, by that faculty. 3 days later you get a call for a consultation. And yet we can find no more certain ground on which to base the discussion of the question whether the sphere of possibility is wider than that of experience. But it is utterly impossible to go beyond our conception, without the aid of experience--which presents to the mind nothing but phenomena, or to attain by the help of mere conceptions to a conviction of the existence of new kinds of objects or supernatural beings. The understanding exerts itself after two different ways, as it judges from demonstration or probability; as it regards the abstract relations of our ideas, or those relations of objects, of which experience only gives us information. Conceptions which afford us the objective foundation of the possibility of experience are for that very reason necessary. To prove the ideas of passion and desire not to be innate, they observe that we have a preceding experience of these emotions in ourselves.