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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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Now logic is enclosed within limits which admit of perfectly clear definition; it is a science which has for its object nothing but the exposition and proof of the formal laws of all thought, whether it be a priori or empirical, whatever be its origin or its object, and whatever the difficulties--natural or accidental-- which it encounters in the human mind.

 Hence also the moral laws are universally regarded as commands, which they could not be did they not connect a priori adequate consequences with their dictates, and thus carry with them promises and threats. For in this sphere action is absolutely necessary, that is, I must act in obedience to the moral law in all points. The latter we cannot cognize; we can only indicate it by means of phenomena, which enable us to have an immediate cognition only of the empirical character.* An action, then, in so far as it is to be ascribed to an intelligible cause, does not result from it in accordance with empirical laws. In a cognition which completely harmonizes with the laws of the understanding, no error can exist. For the object is in our own mind and cannot be discovered in experience; and we have only to take care that our thoughts are consistent with each other, and to avoid falling into the amphiboly of regarding our idea as a representation of an object empirically given, and therefore to be cognized according to the laws of experience. In this view of the case, the whole field of experience, how far soever it may extend, contains nothing that is not subject to the laws of nature. 
But every effective cause must possess a character, that is to say, a law of its causality, without which it would cease to be a cause.
 

Let it be supposed, that there is no other kind of causality than that according to the laws of nature.

 I know also, to a certainty, that no one can be acquainted with any other conditions which conduct to the same unity of ends under the moral law.