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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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It follows, therefore, that the thought alone finds personal identity, when reflecting on the train of past perceptions, that compose a mind, the ideas of them are felt to be connected together, and naturally introduce each other.

 These notions of right and obligation are derived from nothing but the advantage we reap from government, which gives us a repugnance to practise resistance ourselves, and makes us displeased with any instance of it in others. The former is termed philosophical, the latter mathematical. 

In the former case the condition is postulated (per thesin), in the latter supposed (per hypothesin).

 Thus the transcendental ideas are available only for ascending in the series of conditions, till we reach the unconditioned, that is, principles. Mathematics fulfils this requirement by the construction of the figure, which is a phenomenon evident to the senses.