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Thus, too, he regarded the principle of affinity, which has its seat in the understanding and indicates a necessary connection, as a mere rule of association, lying in the imitative faculty of imagination, which can present only contingent, and not objective connections. APPENDIX. We must therefore look still higher for this unity (as qualitative, SS 8), in that, namely, which contains the ground of the unity of diverse conceptions in judgements, the ground, consequently, of the possibility of the existence of the understanding, even in regard to its logical use. So don't wait any longer, take advantage of this sizzling summer special. For since love and hatred are directly contrary in their sensation, and have the same object in common, if that object were also their cause, it would produce these opposite passions in an equal degree; and as they must, from the very first moment, destroy each other, none of them would ever be able to make its appearance. A strong propensity or inclination alone, without any present impression, will sometimes cause a belief or opinion. For if truth be at all within the reach of human capacity, it is certain it must lie very deep and abstruse: and to hope we shall arrive at it without pains, while the greatest geniuses have failed with the utmost pains, must certainly be esteemed sufficiently vain and presumptuous. Nor is this observable only with regard to characters and manners, but may be remarked even in the most minute circumstances. I shall add as a fourth corrollary that we can never have reason to believe that any object exists, of which we cannot form an idea. The reflective impressions may be divided into two kinds, viz. the calm and the VIOLENT.