Oyonale - Créations 3D et expériences graphiques
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To give an object, if this expression be understood in the sense of "to present" the object, not mediately but immediately in intuition, means nothing else than to apply the representation of it to experience, be that experience real or only possible. With a guarantee like that it would be hard for any serious gambler to refuse, and we mean what we say if you lose your stake, we will give you double your stake back. Now as these conceptions always possess the character of necessity, experience is possible only by means of a representation of the necessary connection of perception. We guess (for without some such surmise our suspicion would not be excited in reference to a proof of this character) at the presence of the paralogism, by keeping ever before us a criterion of the possibility of those synthetical propositions which aim at proving more than experience can teach us. We might, perhaps, be at a loss to explain this phaenomenon, if we had not experience of a similar in ourselves. But what have I here said, that reflections very refined and metaphysical have little or no influence upon us? This opinion I can scarce forbear retracting, and condemning from my present feeling and experience.