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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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That be failed to perceive the necessity of such a procedure must be ascribed to the dogmatic mode of thought which characterized his age, and on this point the philosophers of his time, as well as of all previous times, have nothing to reproach each other with.

 Space and time are the pure forms thereof; sensation the matter. It is a common observation, that the mind has a great propensity to spread itself on external objects, and to conjoin with them any internal impressions, which they occasion, and which always make their appearance at the same time that these objects discover themselves to the senses.  There is an easy reason, why every thing contiguous to us, either in space or time, should be conceived with a peculiar force and vivacity, and excel every other object, in its influence on the imagination. Its permanence in life is evident, per se, inasmuch as the thinking being (as man) is to itself, at the same time, an object of the external senses. When my perceptions are removed for any time, as by sound sleep; so long am I insensible of myself, and may truly be said not to exist. Here it must be specially remembered that we must consider the order of time and not the lapse thereof. Space, therefore, consists only of spaces, and time of times. Concealing it is simply so no one can SEE there is money in the envelope and steal it before it gets to you. There is something weak and imperfect amidst all that seeming vehemence of thought and sentiment, which attends the fictions of poetry.