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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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Such an influence on the mind is in itself perfectly extraordinary and incomprehensible; nor can we be certain of its reality, but from experience and observation. The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of the extension of the sphere of pure reason without the aid of experience. For it is a necessary rule of the speculative use of reason that we must not overlook natural causes, or refuse to listen to the teaching of experience, for the sake of deducing what we know and perceive from something that transcends all our knowledge. This removes all pretext, if there yet remains any, for asserting that the mind is convinced by reasoning of that principle, that instances of which we have no experience, must necessarily resemble those, of which we have. But empirical cognition is experience; consequently no a priori cognition is possible for us, except of objects of possible experience.* This system, then, seems already sufficiently confirmed by experience; that we have not yet exhausted all our arguments. They can never by any arguments form a general conclusion, that those objects, of which they have had no experience, resemble those of which they have.