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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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The objects of experience then are not things in themselves, but are given only in experience, and have no existence apart from and independently of experience. The idea of existence, then, is the very same with the idea of what we conceive to be existent. Otherwise, not exactly the same, but something more than what was cogitated in my conception, would exist, and I could not affirm that the exact object of my conception had real existence. No faculty of the mind can conduct us from the conception of a thing to the existence of something else; and hence he believed he could infer that, without experience, we possess no source from which we can augment a conception, and no ground sufficient to justify us in framing a judgement that is to extend our cognition a priorI. That the light of the sun, which shines upon a piece of wax, at the same time melts it, while it hardens clay, no power of the understanding could infer from the conceptions which we previously possessed of these substances; much less is there any a priori law that could conduct us to such a conclusion, which experience alone can certify. thing that is real in the soul, and has a degree--consequently its entire existence--has been halved, a particular substance would arise out of the soul. When we reason from cause and effect, we conclude, that neither colour, sound, taste, nor smell have a continued and independent existence. For that there must be some absolutely necessary existence, it regards as a truth already established.