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They are always real, because they concern the existence of substance (negations are only determinations, which express the non-existence of something in the substance). First, For what reason we pronounce it necessary, that every thing whose existence has a beginning, should also have a cause. The postulate concerning the cognition of the reality of things requires perception, consequently conscious sensation, not indeed immediately, that is, of the object itself, whose existence is to be cognized, but still that the object have some connection with a real perception, in accordance with the analogies of experience, which exhibit all kinds of real connection in experience. As all men desire pleasure, nothing can be more probable, than its existence when there is no external obstacle to the producing it, and men perceive no danger in following their inclinations. But this permanent something cannot be something in me, for the very reason that my existence in time is itself determined by this permanent something.