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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 have so often lost our labour in such researches, that we commonly reject them without hesitation, and resolve, if we must for ever be a prey to errors and delusions, that they shall at least be natural and entertaining. There have been many systems of morality advanced by philosophers in all ages; but if they are strictly examined, they may be reduced to two, which alone merit our attention. Accordingly, permanence is a necessary condition under which alone phenomena, as things or objects, are determinable in a possible experience. Currently as low as 3 I place it either in the constant union and conjunction of like objects, or in the inference of the mind from the one to the other. The transcendental idea of freedom is far from constituting the entire content of the psychological conception so termed, which is for the most part empirical. The equilibrium of doubt would in this case be destroyed by a practical addition; indeed, Reason would be compelled to condemn herself, if she refused to comply with the demands of the judgement, no superior to which we know--however defective her understanding of the grounds of these demands might be.