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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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This contradiction [Part III. SECT. 14.] would be more excusable, were it compensated by any degree of solidity and satisfaction in the other parts of our reasoning. If we were not distrustful even of the clearest abstract theorems, if we were not allured by specious and inviting prospects to escape from the constraining power of their evidence, we might spare ourselves the laborious examination of all the dialectical arguments which a transcendent reason adduces in support of its pretensions; for we should know with the most complete certainty that, however honest such professions might be, they are null and valueless, because they relate to a kind of knowledge to which no man can by any possibility attain. [*Footnote; Just as if thought were in the first instance a function of the understanding; in the second, of judgement; in the third, of reason. This is the reason why children commonly bear their father's name, and are esteemed to be of nobler or baser birth, according to his family. But the schema which is originated from an idea (in which case reason presents us with aims a priori, and does not look for them to experience), forms the basis of architectonical unity.