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Cliquer sur les phrases pour les voir dans leur contexte. Les textes de Immanuel Kant et David Hume sont disponibles auprès du Projet Gutenberg.
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It is true, those sentiments, from interest and morals, are apt to be confounded, and naturally run into one another. The interest in both is of the very same kind: It is general, avowed, and prevails in all times and places. This synthesis is pure when the diversity is not given empirically but a priori (as that in space and time). A strong propensity or inclination alone, without any present impression, will sometimes cause a belief or opinion. Abbe Terrasson remarks with great justice that, if we estimate the size of a work, not from the number of its pages, but from the time which we require to make ourselves master of it, it may be said of many a book that it would be much shorter, if it were not so short. [*Footnote; Space and time, and all portions thereof, are intuitions; consequently are, with a manifold for their content, single representations. I own it is unintelligible; but at the same time assert, according to the principles above-explained, that it is impossible to discover any absurdity in the supposition, that all the various objects in nature are actions of one simple substance, which absurdity will not be applicable to a like supposition concerning impressions and ideas.