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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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A like reflection on general rules keeps us from augmenting our belief upon every encrease of the force and vivacity of our ideas.

 This, no doubt, is to be regarded as an idle fiction; but yet deserves our attention, because nothing can more evidently shew the origin of those virtues, which are the subjects of our present enquiry. I have joined Jody in her 'hobby'. In order, therefore, to distinguish those two different sorts of commerce, the interested and the disinterested, there is a certain form of words invented for the former, by which we bind ourselves to the performance of any action. The possibility of sensuous objects is a relation of these objects to thought, in which something (the empirical form) may be cogitated a priori; while that which constitutes the matter--the reality of the phenomenon (that element which corresponds to sensation)--must be given from without, as otherwise it could not even be cogitated by, nor could its possibility be presentable to the mind.