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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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For there are so many groundless pretensions to the enlargement of our knowledge by pure reason that we must take it as a general rule to be mistrustful of all such, and without a thoroughgoing and radical deduction, to believe nothing of the sort even on the clearest dogmatical evidence.

 Since it is not from knowledge or any scientific reasoning, that we derive the opinion of the necessity of a cause to every new production, that opinion must necessarily arise from observation and experience. But still I can see no pretext of reason for asserting, that the tendency to cause such an error is the first spring or original source of all immorality. Hence, when a cognition is contemplated as conditioned, reason is compelled to consider the series of conditions in an ascending line as completed and given in their totality. Our foregoing reasoning [Part I. SECT. 7.] concerning the distinction of ideas without any real difference will not here serve us in any stead. 1. In relation to the object of the cognition of reason, philosophers may be divided into sensualists and intellectualists.