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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 proceeds from the relation and parallel direction of the passions above-mentioned. But if I take the matter which is indicated by this name, and submit it to the examination of my senses, I am enabled to form several synthetical--although still empirical- propositions. It is therefore completely different from all principles of the understanding, the use made of which is entirely immanent, their object and purpose being merely the possibility of experience. This faculty, accordingly, enounces laws, which are imperative or objective laws of freedom and which tell us what ought to take place, thus distinguishing themselves from the laws of nature, which relate to that which does take place. As the obligation of promises is an invention for the interest of society, it is warped into as many different forms as that interest requires, and even runs into direct contradictions, rather than lose sight of its object. But knowledge and probability are of such contrary and disagreeing natures, that they cannot well run insensibly into each other, and that because they will not divide, but must be either entirely present, or entirely absent. Had I said, that two ideas of the same object can only be different by their different feeling, I should have been nearer the truth. But that in which our sensations are merely arranged, and by which they are susceptible of assuming a certain form, cannot be itself sensation.