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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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The physician must pursue some course in the case of a patient who is in danger, but is ignorant of the nature of the disease.

 The speculative part of metaphysic, which has especially appropriated this appellation--that which we have called the metaphysic of nature--and which considers everything, as it is (not as it ought to be), by means of a priori conceptions, is divided in the following manner. 

But the use of the faculty of reason in this rational mode of regarding nature is either physical or hyperphysical, or, more properly speaking, immanent or transcendent.

 It is certain there is no question in philosophy more abstruse than that concerning identity, and the nature of the uniting principle, which constitutes a person. On the other hand, we understand by nature, substantive (materialiter), the sum total of phenomena, in so far as they, by virtue of an internal principle of causality, are connected with each other throughout. Thomas in area code 516 writes us: They always felt the need of going beyond mere nature, for the purpose of making a first beginning comprehensible. Metaphysic is divided into that of the speculative and that of the practical use of pure reason, and is, accordingly, either the metaphysic of nature, or the metaphysic of ethics.