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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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And yet all we aim at is the possession of this idea as a secure foundation for the systematic unity of experience--a unity indispensable to reason, advantageous to the understanding, and promotive of the interests of empirical cognition.

 

As a proof of this, do we not find, that the facility, which is so much studyed in music and poetry, is called the fail or cadency of the harmony or period; the idea of facility communicating to us that of descent, in the same manner as descent produces a facility?

 
  • There must, therefore, be some cause different from the object.
 When I am convinced of any principle, it is only an idea, which strikes more strongly upon me. 

Men of wit always turn the discourse on subjects that are entertaining to the imagination; and poets never present any objects but such as are of the same nature.

 You'll actually be paid very well to do this. How much more when aided by that circumstance? I believe all moderate men will allow, that they have great force in all disputes concerning the rights of princes.] There are also characters peculiar to different nations and particular persons, as well as common to mankind. But its possibility does not rest on the following series o, p, q, r, which for this reason cannot be regarded as given, but only as capable of being given (dabilis). For in that case the imagination is necessitated to consider the person, nor can it possibly confine its view to ourselves.