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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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When we reflect, therefore, on any object distant from ourselves, we are obliged not only to reach it at first by passing through all the intermediate space betwixt ourselves and the object, but also to renew our progress every moment; being every moment recalled to the consideration of ourselves and our present situation. - But if--as often happens--empiricism, in relation to ideas, becomes itself dogmatic and boldly denies that which is above the sphere of its phenomenal cognition, it falls itself into the error of intemperance--an error which is here all the more reprehensible, as thereby the practical interest of reason receives an irreparable injury.
Time and space are, therefore, two sources of knowledge, from which, a priori, various synthetical cognitions can be drawn. It is not solely in poetry and music, we must follow our taste and sentiment, but likewise in philosophy. The proposition therefore--if all causality is possible only in accordance with the laws of nature--is, when stated in this unlimited and general manner, self-contradictory. Of these some are more general, and therefore higher, than others; and--as we cannot distinguish what is completely a priori from that which is known to be a posteriori--where shall we draw the line which is to separate the higher and so-called first principles, from the lower and subordinate principles of cognition?