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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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That absorbent earths are of different kinds could only be discovered by obeying the anticipatory law of reason, which imposes upon the understanding the task of discovering the differences existing between these earths, and supposes that nature is richer in substances than our senses would indicate. In one word, a full and clear definition ought, in philosophy, rather to form the conclusion than the commencement of our labours.* In mathematics, on the contrary, we cannot have a conception prior to the definition; it is the definition which gives us the conception, and it must for this reason form the commencement of every chain of mathematical reasoning. People have reported more energy, less allergies, clearing of acne, cessation of migraines, and many other results, not to mention restored regularity. In this case it must--pure reason as it is--exhibit an empirical character. The hypothesis of a supreme intelligence, as the sole cause of the universe--an intelligence which has for us no more than an ideal existence--is accordingly always of the greatest service to reason. But if I cannot reason thus--and I cannot, unless I believe in the sufficiency of the ontological argument--I find insurmountable obstacles in my new path, and am really no farther than the point from which I set out.