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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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The transition from pride or humility to love or hatred is not so natural as from love or hatred to pride or humility. This is the logical criterion of possibility, distinguishing the object of such a conception from the nihil negativum. For it will of ten be found that the originator of a science and even his latest successors remain attached to an erroneous idea, which they cannot render clear to themselves, and that they thus fail in determining the true content, the articulation or systematic unity, and the limits of their science. We take a pleasure in viewing the picture of a friend, when it is set before us; but when it is removed, rather choose to consider him directly, than by reflexion in an image, which is equally distinct and obscure. A traveller is always admitted into company, and meets with civility, in proportion as his train and equipage speak him a man of great or moderate fortune. I understand by a canon a list of the a priori principles of the proper employment of certain faculties of cognition. I shall conclude this subject of extension with a paradox, which will easily be explained from the foregoing reasoning. If I say; "A man who is ignorant is not learned," the condition "at the same time" must be added, for he who is at one time ignorant, may at another be learned. Now, as this regress is infinite, all the members (parts) to which it attains must be contained in the given whole as an aggregate.