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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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From all this it may be infered, that no other faculty is required, beside the senses, to convince us of the external existence of body. Secondly, Sounds, and tastes, and smelts, though commonly regarded by the mind as continued independent qualities, appear not to have any existence in extension, and consequently cannot appear to the senses as situated externally to the body. Betwixt unity and number there can be no medium; no more than betwixt existence and nonexistence. thing that is real in the soul, and has a degree--consequently its entire existence--has been halved, a particular substance would arise out of the soul. It will first be proper to observe a few of those experiments, which convince us, that our perceptions are not possest of any independent existence.