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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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I flatter myself I have executed a great part of my present design by a state of the question, which appears to me so free from ambiguity and obscurity. For experience itself is a mode of cognition which requires understanding. Thus he dispenses with all empirical investigations into the cause of these internal phenomena, and with all possible explanations of them upon purely natural grounds; while, at the dictation of a transcendent reason, he passes by the immanent sources of cognition in experience, greatly to his own ease and convenience, but to the sacrifice of all, genuine insight and intelligence. First, We suppose external objects to resemble internal perceptions. In one word, these three propositions are, for the speculative reason, always transcendent, and cannot be employed as immanent principles in relation to the objects of experience; they are, consequently, of no use to us in this sphere, being but the valueless results of the severe but unprofitable efforts of reason. The world of sense, if it is limited, must necessarily lie in the infinite void. We may proceed from a given pair in the descending line of generation from father to son, and cogitate a never-ending line of descendants from it.