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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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Annihilate its existence in thought, and you annihilate the thing itself with all its predicates; how then can there be any room for contradiction?

 For although we posit a thing corresponding to the idea--a something, an actual existence--we do not on that account aim at the extension of our cognition by means of transcendent conceptions. 

Principle of Coexistence, According to the Law of Reciprocity or Community.

 But it is evident that, as all phenomena are subject to change and conditioned in their existence, the series of dependent existences cannot embrace an unconditioned member, the existence of which would be absolutely necessary. This permanence is, however, nothing but the manner in which we represent to ourselves the existence of things in the phenomenal world. [*Footnote; As to the existence of pure natural science, or physics, perhaps many may still express doubts. All determination in regard to time presupposes the existence of something permanent in perception.