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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 mind never carries its view expressly to consider any past experience: Though in other associations of objects, which are more rare and unusual, it may assist the custom and transition of ideas by this reflection.

 
  • For example, the proposition, "Every change has a cause," is a proposition a priori, but impure, because change is a conception which can only be derived from experience.
 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 conceptions of reason are, as we have already shown, mere ideas, and do not relate to any object in any kind of experience.
 SS 18. In Cognition, its Application to Objects of Experience is the only legitimate use of the Category. These examples from history and common experience are rich and curious; but we may find parallel ones in the arts, which are no less remarkable.