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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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From this relation of impressions, and identity of ideas, the passion arises, according to my hypothesis. But, as the synthesis of imagination has for its aim no single intuition, but merely unity in the determination of sensibility, the schema is clearly distinguishable from the image. Upon this perfectly natural--but not on that account reliable--inference does the cosmological argument rest. There is no contradiction, therefore, in extending the same doctrine to all the perceptions. The principal of union being regarded as the chief part of the complex idea, gives entrance to whatever quality afterwards occurs, and is equally comprehended by it, as are the others, which first presented themselves. Now a great emotion succeeding a small one becomes still greater, and rises beyond its ordinary proportion. Thus the predicates of space and time are rightly attributed to objects of the senses as such, and in this there is no illusion. Now, independently of sensibility, we cannot possibly have any intuition; consequently, the understanding is no faculty of intuition. The pure conceptions of the understanding apply to objects of intuition in general, through the understanding alone, whether the intuition be our own or some other, provided only it be sensuous, but are, for this very reason, mere forms of thought, by means of which alone no determined object can be cognized.