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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 the same reason any likeness among them is the source of affection. We may apply the same reasoning to CURVE and RIGHT lines. In one word, the question is; "does reason in itself, that is, does pure reason contain a priori synthetical principles and rules, and what are those principles?"
Here it is evident, that however that object, which is present to my senses, and that other, whose existence I infer by reasoning, may be thought to influence each other by their particular powers or qualities; yet as the phenomenon of belief, which we at present examine, is merely internal, these powers and qualities, being entirely unknown, can have no hand in producing it.
The speculative interest which reason has in those questions is very small; and, for its sake alone, we should not undertake the labour of transcendental investigation--a labour full of toil and ceaseless struggle. Sometimes this distance has a greater influence than even contrary experiments would have; and a man may receive a more lively conviction from a probable reasoning, which is close and immediate, than from a long chain of consequences, though just and conclusive in each part.