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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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if we consider this reality as cause (be it of sensation or of another reality in the phenomenon, for example, a change), we call the degree of reality in its character of cause a momentum, for example, the momentum of weight; and for this reason, that the degree only indicates that quantity the apprehension of which is not successive, but instantaneous.

 
This we propose to attempt in the following chapter.
 Most fortunately all this reasoning is found to be exactly conformable to experience, and the phaenomena of the passions. $44 per quarter pound. If a point be not considered as coloured or tangible, it can convey to us no idea; and consequently the idea of extension, which is composed of the ideas of these points, can never possibly exist. Annihilate its existence in thought, and you annihilate the thing itself with all its predicates; how then can there be any room for contradiction? What this basis of cosmical unity may be in itself, we know not--we cannot discover from the idea; we merely know how we ought to employ the idea of this unity, in relation to the systematic operation of reason in the sphere of experience. The foundation of our inference is the transition arising from the accustomed union. The conditioned in existence is termed contingent, and the unconditioned necessary.