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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 keep to what is contained in the conception, the judgement is merely analytical--it is merely an explanation of what we have cogitated in the conception. Don't settle for a minister you don't know!! 3. The mere form of intuition, without substance, is in itself no object, but the merely formal condition of an object (as phenomenon), as pure space and pure time. It follows from what we have said that we are not justified in declaring the world to be infinite in space, or as regards past time. For no cognition can contradict it, without losing at the same time all content, that is, losing all reference to an object, and therefore all truth. This is the doctrine of philosophers. But, on the other hand, they are capable of an admirable and indispensably necessary application to objects--as regulative ideas, directing the understanding to a certain aim, the guiding lines towards which all its laws follow, and in which they all meet in one point. I must, however, make one exception, viz, when the very cause of the pride and humility is placed in some other person. A sense of superiority in another breeds in all men an inclination to keep themselves at a distance from him, and determines them to redouble the marks of respect and reverence, when they are obliged to approach him; and where they do not observe that conduct, it is a proof they are not sensible of his superiority. Thus the conduct of this wise and divine man serves us as a standard of action, with which we may compare and judge ourselves, which may help us to reform ourselves, although the perfection it demands can never be attained by us.