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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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Examine it in all lights, and see if you can find that matter of fact, or real existence, which you call vice. And thus I should deny the existence of an infinite, without, however affirming the existence of a finite world. This leads us backward upon our footsteps to perceive our error in attributing a continued existence to our perceptions, and is the origin of many very curious opinions, which we shall here endeavour to account for. (Time passes not, but in it passes the existence of the changeable. So strong the prejudice for the distinct continued existence Of the former qualities, that when the contrary opinion is advanced by modern philosophers, people imagine they can almost refute it from their feeling and experience, and that their very senses contradict this philosophy. Such an existence would be purely fictitious, and the hypostatizing of the content of the idea into an ideal, as an individual being, is a step perfectly unauthorized. For if the condition of every conditioned--as regards its existence--is sensuous, and for this reason a part of the same series, it must be itself conditioned, as was shown in the antithesis of the fourth antinomy. - I AM WILLING TO GIVE YOU SOME PERCENTAGE FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE ON THIS, I OFFER YOU 15%.