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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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The difference, therefore, of our conduct in preferring the greater number depends not upon our passions, but upon custom, and general rules. For as conditions of all existence in general, space and time must be conditions of the existence of the Supreme Being also. This excites the passion, connected with it; and that passion, when excited. The function of reason in arguments consists in the universality of a cognition according to conceptions, and the syllogism itself is a judgement which is determined a priori in the whole extent of its condition. [See Father Malbranche, Book VI. Part 2, chap. 3 And the illustrations upon it.] There are some, who maintain, that bodies operate by their substantial form; others, by their accidents or qualities; several, by their matter and form; some, by their form and accidents; others, by certain virtues and faculties distinct from all this.
- But without some empirical representation, which presents to the mind material for thought, the mental act, "I think," would not take place; and the empirical is only the condition of the application or employment of the pure intellectual faculty.]