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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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We blame equally a bad action, which we read of in history, with one performed in our neighbourhood the other day: The meaning of which is, that we know from reflection, that the former action would excite as strong sentiments of disapprobation as the latter, were it placed in the same position. I cannot say, "The regress from a given perception to everything limited either in space or time, proceeds in infinitum," for this presupposes an infinite cosmical quantity; neither can I say, "It is finite," for an absolute limit is likewise impossible in experience. NEWS 12/29/02 It may not be amiss, on this occasion, to remark the flexibility of our sentiments, and the several changes they so readily receive from the objects, with which they are conjoined. General rules create a species of probability, which sometimes influences the judgment, and always the imagination. SECT. III. OF THE OTHER QUALITIES OF OUR IDEA OF SPACE AND TIME. But how and by what can we fix and determine this point of time, unless by that which already exists? Consequently, the transcendental idea of the absolute totality of the series of the conditions of a given conditioned, relates merely to all past time.