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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 all the questions raised by pure reason relate to that which lies beyond this horizon, or, at least, in its boundary line.

 

If, indeed, they were nothing more than maxims for the speculative exercise of reason, he gives evidence therein a more genuine philosophic spirit than any of the philosophers of antiquity.

 As I do not wish this critical essay, the sole purpose of which is to treat of the sources of our synthetical cognition a priori, to be crowded with analyses which merely explain, but do not enlarge the sphere of our conceptions, I reserve the detailed explanation of the above conceptions for a future system of pure reason. The critique of pure reason may be regarded as the highest tribunal for all speculative disputes; for it is not involved in these disputes, which have an immediate relation to certain objects and not to the laws of the mind, but is instituted for the purpose of determining the rights and limits of reason. It is absurd to expect to be enlightened by Reason, and at the same time to prescribe to her what side of the question she must adopt. This discovery of our deficiencies must produce a great change in the determination of the aims of human reason.] V. In all Theoretical Sciences of Reason, Synthetical Judgements "a priori" are contained as Principles. Such is the constitution of the ideal of reason, which is always based upon determinate conceptions, and serves as a rule and a model for limitation or of criticism. For this I assign the following reason. Now these resemblances we are apt to confound with each other; and it is natural we shoud, according to this very reasoning.