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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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Make a beating follow upon one sign or motion for some time, and afterwards upon another; and he will successively draw different conclusions, according to his most recent experience. For though custom and education produce belief by such a repetition, as is not derived from experience, yet this requires a long tract of time, along with a very frequent and undesigned repetition. This sentiment of morality, in the performance of promises, arises from the same principles as that in the abstinence from the property of others. 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. Besides, the proposition that different times cannot be coexistent could not be derived from a general conception. I shall merely enumerate these, leaving it to the reader, who must by this time be well practised in such matters, to investigate the fallacies residing therein.