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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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Hence this affirmation indicates a reality, because in and through it objects are considered to be something--to be things; while the opposite negation, on the other band, indicates a mere want, or privation, or absence, and, where such negations alone are attached to a representation, the non-existence of anything corresponding to the representation.

 And thus, though every impression and idea we remember be considered as existent, the idea of existence is not derived from any particular impression. The word reality in the conception of the thing, and the word existence in the conception of the predicate, will not help you out of the difficulty. The former admitted intellectual conceptions, but declared that sensuous objects alone possessed real existence. But the only existence cognized, under the condition of other given phenomena, as necessary, is the existence of effects from given causes in conformity with the laws of causality.