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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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In such a case I should be obliged in transcendental reflection to compare my conceptions only under the conditions of sensibility, and so space and time would not be determinations of things in themselves, but of phenomena. It certainly seems that, as a body must be cogitated as substance in space, the law of divisibility would not be applicable to it as substance. We know no other properties that make up the conception of substance phenomenal in space, and which we term matter. Its relation to objects in space gives us the conception of connection (commercium) with bodies. All evasions, such as the statement that objects of sense do not conform to the rules of construction in space (for example, to the rule of the infinite divisibility of lines or angles), must fall to the ground. If light be not given to the senses, we cannot represent to ourselves darkness, and if extended objects are not perceived, we cannot represent space.