Oyonale - Créations 3D et expériences graphiques
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It ought not to be objected that in this proposition, which expresses the perception of one's self, an internal experience is asserted, and that consequently the rational doctrine of the soul which is founded upon it, is not pure, but partly founded upon an empirical principle. Not only are tens of thousands of workers and managers being downsized out of their companies, but also thousands of men and women are tired of the corporate rat race and want to retreat to a home-based business. And should it be said, that this depends on the union of soul and body; I would answer, that we must separate the question concerning the substance of the mind from that concerning the cause of its thought; and that confining ourselves to the latter question we find by the comparing their ideas, that thought and motion are different from each other, and by experience, that they are constantly united; which being all the circumstances, that enter into the idea of cause and effect, when applied to the operations of matter, we may certainly conclude, that motion may be, and actually is, the cause of thought and perception. A person, who stops short in his journey upon meeting a river in his way, foresees the consequences of his proceeding forward; and his knowledge of these consequences is conveyed to him by past experience, which informs him of such certain conjunctions of causes and effects. It is sufficient, if we can give any satisfactory account of them from experience and analogy. Reason will not follow the order of things presented by experience, but, with perfect spontaneity, rearranges them according to ideas, with which it compels empirical conditions to agree. But with this we have not to do; our concern is only with the law of progression in experience, in which objects, that is, phenomena, are given. None of them can go beyond experience, or establish any principles which are not founded on that authority. The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of the extension of the sphere of pure reason without the aid of experience. That is, it must determine a priori the consequences which are given in experience and which are supposed to follow from the hypothesis itself.