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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 may be better worth our while to remark, that this question of the local conjunction of objects does not only occur in metaphysical disputes concerning the nature of the soul, but that even in common life we have every moment occasion to examine it. It is in vain, that mathematicians represent a plain surface as produced by the flowing of a right line. It has been observed, that nothing is ever present to the mind but its perceptions; and that all the actions of seeing, hearing, judging, loving, hating, and thinking, fall under this denomination. Such an event, as has been shown in No. It is, therefore, in some internal relation, that the property consists; that is, in some influence, which the external relations of the object have on the mind and actions. We may be sure, therefore, whatever contempt may be thrown upon metaphysics by those who judge a science not by its own nature, but according to the accidental effects it may have produced, that it can never be completely abandoned, that we must always return to it as to a beloved one who has been for a time estranged, because the questions with which it is engaged relate to the highest aims of humanity, and reason must always labour either to attain to settled views in regard to these, or to destroy those which others have already established. The organs are so disposed as to produce the passion; and the passion, after its production, naturally produces a certain idea. But when you produce any other variation, it is no longer the same shade or colour. For the first time, in the late 80s, researchers were able to successfully isolate the human phero-mone, Androsten one, found in human sweat. 4 It is in relation to possible objects in space*