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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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2. In relation to the origin of the pure cognitions of reason, we find one school maintaining that they are derived entirely from experience, and another that they have their origin in reason alone. For reason is thus confined within her own peculiar province--the arrangement of ends or aims, which is at the same time the arrangement of nature; and, as a practical faculty, without limiting itself to the latter, it is justified in extending the former, and with it our own existence, beyond the boundaries of experience and life. We shall accordingly have to treat of the discipline, the canon, the architectonic, and, finally, the history of pure 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. For the same reason, that the year 1737 cannot concur with the present year 1738 every moment must be distinct from, and posterior or antecedent to another. SECTION IV. Of the necessity imposed upon Pure Reason of presenting a Solution of its Transcendental Problems. And for this reason every thing that has been said on the one subject is applicable to both.