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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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Now the difficulty still remains, how to form an idea of this object or existence, without having recourse to the secondary and sensible qualities. This cause, as the highest member in the series of the causes of cosmical changes, must originate or begin* the existence of the latter and their series. Secondly, There is a false sensation or experience even of the liberty of indifference; which is regarded as an argument for its real existence. But here it is observable, that even in these changes they preserve a coherence, and have a regular dependence on each other; which is the foundation of a kind of reasoning from causation, and produces the opinion of their continued existence. The absolute whole of quantity (the universe), of division, of derivation, of the condition of existence, with the question--whether it is to be produced by finite or infinite synthesis, no possible experience can instruct us concerning. Whatever we discover externally by sensation; whatever we feel internally by reflection; all these are nothing but modifications of that one, simple, and necessarily existent being, and are not possest of any separate or distinct existence.