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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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Now these sciences, if they can be termed rational at all, must contain elements of a priori cognition, and this cognition may stand in a twofold relation to its object. The effect of so strong a relation is, that though every one must allow, that in a very few years both vegetables and animals endure a total change, yet we still attribute identity to them, while their form, size, and substance are entirely altered. This property of quantities, according to which no part of them is the smallest possible (no part simple), is called their continuity. This is commonly taken for granted in all reasonings, without any proof given or demanded. In transcendental logic we isolate the understanding (as in transcendental aesthetic the sensibility) and select from our cognition merely that part of thought which has its origin in the understanding alone. But this is not all. - It is true, those sentiments, from interest and morals, are apt to be confounded, and naturally run into one another.
The proper problem of pure reason, then, is contained in the question; "How are synthetical judgements a priori possible?" But how and by what can we fix and determine this point of time, unless by that which already exists?