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It is merely a principle for the enlargement and extension of experience as far as is possible for human faculties. It is, however, true that without antecedent experience we can cognize and characterize the possibility of things, relatively to the formal conditions, under which something is determined in experience as an object, consequently, completely a priorI. But still this is possible only in relation to experience and within its limits. But beside that experience in most instances seems to contradict this opinion, we may establish the relation of priority by a kind of inference or reasoning. This question we cannot be long in deciding, For besides all the other arguments, with which this subject abounds, it must evidently appear, that the relation of ideas, which experience shews to be so requisite a circumstance to the production of the passion, would be entirely superfluous, were it not to second a relation of affections, and facilitate the transition from one impression to another. Rules current in the field of common experience, and which common sense stamps everywhere with its approval, are regarded by them as axiomatic. It seems, indeed, as if the possibility of a triangle could be cognized from the conception of it alone (which is certainly independent of experience); for we can certainly give to the conception a corresponding object completely a priori, that is to say, we can construct it. But though experience be the true standard of this, as well as of all other judgments, we. Possible experience can alone give reality to our conceptions; without it a conception is merely an idea, without truth or relation to an object. This number is increasing by almost 600,000 per year.