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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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I have not returned an evasive answer to the questions of reason, by alleging the inability and limitation of the faculties of the mind; I have, on the contrary, examined them completely in the light of principles, and, after having discovered the cause of the doubts and contradictions into which reason fell, have solved them to its perfect satisfaction. The rivers flowed with wine and milk: The oaks yielded honey; and nature spontaneously produced her greatest delicacies. I give him a head and shoulders, and breast and neck. Try it. No Risk. 30-day money-back guarantee This conceit, however, is no more reasonable than any of the foregoing. For this conception demands that something, A, should be of such a nature that something else, B, should follow from it necessarily, and according to an absolutely universal law. Without this, our conceptions are empty, and we may indeed have thought by means of them, but by such thinking we have not, in fact, cognized anything, we have merely played with representation. It is our duty, therefore, to try to discover new objections, to put weapons in the bands of our opponent, and to grant him the most favourable position in the arena that he can wish. - The examination of these will conclude this system of morals.
For this reason we ought to call these conceptions, conceptions of comparison (conceptus comparationis).