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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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That element in a sensuous object which is not itself sensuous, I may be allowed to term intelligible. At the same time, it must not be supposed that any beginning can take place in reason; on the contrary, reason, as the unconditioned condition of all action of the will, admits of no time-conditions, although its effect does really begin in a series of phenomena--a beginning which is not, however, absolutely primal. Failing this condition of judgement (schema), subsumption is impossible; for there is in such a case nothing given, which may be subsumed under the conception. First, Certain causes, such as gravity, solidity, a cubical figure, &c. [*Footnote; This was the term applied by the old dialecticians to a sophistical argument, which ran thus; If it is your fate to die of this disease, you will die, whether you employ a physician or not. There remains nothing, but to determine exactly, what is meant by possession; and this is not so easy as may at first sight be imagined.