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I may have sufficient grounds to admit something, or the existence of something, in a relative point of view (suppositio relativa), without being justified in admitting it in an absolute sense (suppositio absoluta). For as this idea is not here considered, as the representation of any absent object, but as a real perception in the mind, of which we are intimately conscious, it must be able to bestow on whatever is related to it the same quality, call it firmness, or solidity, or force, or vivacity, with which the mind reflects upon it, and is assured of its present existence. But if we believe that everything in the world--be it condition or conditioned--is contingent; every given existence is too small for our conception. Whatever be the content of our conception of an object, it is necessary to go beyond it, if we wish to predicate existence of the object. If perceptions are distinct existences, they form a whole only by being connected together. *Have you ever had troubles with immigration? Idealism, however, brings forward powerful objections to these rules for proving existence mediately. But the existence of external things is absolutely requisite for this purpose, so that it follows that internal experience is itself possible only mediately and through external experience. But we cannot cogitate it as a thing determinable by certain distinct predicates relating to its internal nature, for it has no connection with empirical conceptions; nor are we justified in affirming the existence of any such object.