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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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These are, therefore, antecedent to government, and are supposed to impose an obligation before the duty of allegiance to civil magistrates has once been thought of. In reference to this subject, see the remark in Section I (SS 4) Now all this would be perfectly correct, if the conception of a thing were the only necessary condition of the presentation of objects of external intuition. There is no other way than through intuitions or conceptions, as such; and these are given either a priori or a posteriorI. The latter, namely, empirical conceptions, together with the empirical intuition on which they are founded, cannot afford any synthetical proposition, except such as is itself also empirical, that is, a proposition of experience. For want of this method, and from the fancy that it was possible to discover a dogmatical proof of the synthetical propositions which are requisite in the empirical employment of the understanding, has it happened that a proof of the principle of sufficient reason has been so often attempted, and always in vain. If the question regarded an object of sense merely, it would be impossible for me to confound the conception with the existence of a thing.