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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 we are not speaking here of an absolutely first beginning in relation to time, but as regards causality alone. We readily suppose an object may continue individually the same, though several times absent from and present to the senses; and ascribe to it an identity, notwithstanding the interruption of the perception, whenever we conclude, that if we had kept our eye or hand constantly upon it, it would have conveyed an invariable and uninterrupted perception. One that WILL bring steady, dependable monthly checks EVERY month and in the shortest amount of time? The cause of this phaenomenon must evidently lie in the different properties of space and time. - This is true of time also.
We sympathize with the persons that suffer, in all the various sentiments which belong to their fortunes. Space, therefore, consists only of spaces, and time of times. Sometimes even envy and hatred arise from the comparison; but in the greatest part of men, it rests at respect and esteem.