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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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It does not begin from conceptions, but from common experience, and requires a basis in actual existence. By it alone we could, therefore, never determine whether this manifold, as an object of experience, is coexistent or successive, unless it had for a foundation something fixed and permanent, of the existence of which all succession and coexistence are nothing but so many modes (modi of time). The object of all possible experience being the world, it is called the cosmological proof. When experience is presupposed, these principles are apodeictically certain, but in themselves, and directly, they cannot even be cognized a priorI. Thus the given conceptions of cause and event will not be sufficient for the demonstration of the proposition; Every event has a cause. What use can we make of our understanding, even in respect of experience, if we do not propose ends to ourselves? These principles cannot be derived from experience, for it would give neither strict universality, nor apodeictic certainty. If, thirdly, the question is whether we may not cogitate this being, which is distinct from the world, in analogy with the objects of experience?