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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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In the former case my supposition--my judgement with regard to certain conditions--is a merely accidental belief; in the latter it is a necessary belief. Now comes the question whether the manifold of this house is in itself successive--which no one will be at all willing to grant. Did it imply any contradiction, it is impossible it coued ever be conceived. When, for example, I, completely of my own free will, and independently of the necessarily determinative influence of natural causes, rise from my chair, there commences with this event, including its material consequences in infinitum, an absolutely new series; although, in relation to time, this event is merely the continuation of a preceding series. Sometimes even envy and hatred arise from the comparison; but in the greatest part of men, it rests at respect and esteem. But to destroy this artifice, we need but reflect on that principle so oft insisted on, that all our ideas are copyed from our impressions. For example, this universal identity of the apperception of the manifold given in intuition contains a synthesis of representations and is possible only by means of the consciousness of this synthesis. Locke, chapter of power.], that finding from experience, that there are several new productions in matter, such as the motions and variations of body, and concluding that there must somewhere be a power capable of producing them, we arrive at last by this reasoning at the idea of power and efficacy.