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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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But the existence of external things is absolutely requisite for this purpose, so that it follows that internal experience is itself possible only mediately and through external experience. Wrinkle Reduction: As regard the manner in which I pass beyond my conception by the aid of experience, no doubts can be entertained. cogitate any such connection, but merely helps us to understand it, when we meet with it in experience. If I wish to investigate the properties of a thinking being, I must interrogate experience. For they would not even be possible a priori, if we could not rely on the assistance of pure intuition (in mathematics), or on that of the conditions of a possible experience. These higher principles alone therefore give the conception, which contains the necessary condition, and, as it were, the exponent of a rule; experience, on the other hand, gives the case which comes under the rule. Still less is an object of experience, or an image of the object, ever to the empirical conception.