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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 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.

 Consequently, the above so-called law is not a law of nature. Thus, the law of succession of time is in all instances the only empirical criterion of effect in relation to the causality of the antecedent cause. For, as a beginning presupposes a time preceding, it cannot be unconditioned; and the law of the empirical employment of the understanding imposes the necessity of looking for a higher condition of time; and the world is, therefore, evidently too small for this law.