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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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If nature has given us no such sentiment, there is not, naturally, nor antecedent to human conventions, any such thing as property.

  Thus we cogitate--and necessarily--a given time completely elapsed up to a given moment, although that time is not determinable by us. [*Footnote; So the central laws of the movements of the heavenly bodies established the truth of that which Copernicus, first, assumed only as a hypothesis, and, at the same time, brought to light that invisible force (Newtonian attraction) which holds the universe together. It is impossible for the mind to preserve any notion of difference betwixt two bodies of the same nature existing in the same place at the same time. But how and by what can we fix and determine this point of time, unless by that which already exists? A beginning is an existence which is preceded by a time in which the thing does not exist. Our table of the conceptions of reflection gives us the unexpected advantage of being able to exhibit the distinctive peculiarities of his system in all its parts, and at the same time of exposing the fundamental principle of this peculiar mode of thought, which rested upon naught but a misconception.