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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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Hi! General rules create a species of probability, which sometimes influences the judgment, and always the imagination. It is, in fact, useless to define a conception of this kind. Origin and extinction are not changes of that which originates or becomes extinct. This path--the only one now remaining--has been entered upon by me; and I flatter myself that I have, in this way, discovered the cause of--and consequently the mode of removing--all the errors which have hitherto set reason at variance with itself, in the sphere of non-empirical thought. The individual figure drawn upon paper is empirical; but it serves, notwithstanding, to indicate the conception, even in its universality, because in this empirical intuition we keep our eye merely on the act of the construction of the conception, and pay no attention to the various modes of determining it, for example, its size, the length of its sides, the size of its angles, these not in the least affecting the essential character of the conception. But that the I which thinks, must be considered as in thought always a subject, and as a thing which cannot be a predicate to thought, is an apodeictic and identical proposition. Thus God and a future life are two hypotheses which, according to the principles of pure reason, are inseparable from the obligation which this reason imposes upon us. We have now run over the three fundamental laws of nature, that of the stability of possession, of its transference by consent, and of the performance of promises.