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Cliquer sur les phrases pour les voir dans leur contexte. Les textes de Immanuel Kant et David Hume sont disponibles auprès du Projet Gutenberg.

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Rules current in the field of common experience, and which common sense stamps everywhere with its approval, are regarded by them as axiomatic.

  These principles being established on unquestionable experience, I begin to consider how we shall apply them, by revolving over all the causes of pride and humility, whether these causes be regarded, as the qualities, that operate, or as the subjects, on which the qualities are placed. 

Reason, therefore, has an immediate relation to the use of the understanding, not indeed in so far as the latter contains the ground of possible experience (for the conception of the absolute totality of conditions is not a conception that can be employed in experience, because no experience is unconditioned), but solely for the purpose of directing it to a certain unity, of which the understanding has no conception, and the aim of which is to collect into an absolute whole all acts of the understanding.

 Ideas are, according to him, archetypes of things themselves, and not merely keys to possible experiences, like the categories. Opposed to this is empirical knowledge, or that which is possible only a posteriori, that is, through experience. On the contrary, this experience assures us still more, that the sense of interest has become common to all our fellows, and gives us a confidence of the future regularity of their conduct: And it is only on the expectation of this, that our moderation and abstinence are founded. What this basis of cosmical unity may be in itself, we know not--we cannot discover from the idea; we merely know how we ought to employ the idea of this unity, in relation to the systematic operation of reason in the sphere of experience. But in this representation we cannot find any knowledge of the subject, and therefore also no empirical knowledge, that is, experience. Nevertheless, in respect of all phenomena, consequently of all things which come within the sphere of our experience, it is necessarily objective.