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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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Ourself is intimately present to us, and whatever is related to self must partake of that quality. We must therefore endeavour to discover by experiments the particular qualities, by which it is enabled to produce so extraordinary an effect. In the transcendental sphere of reason, on the other hand, the term opinion is too weak, while the word knowledge is too strong. To illustrate this by a familiar instance, let us consider the case of a man, who, being hung out from a high tower in a cage of iron cannot forbear trembling, when he surveys the precipice below him, though he knows himself to be perfectly secure from falling, by his experience of the solidity of the iron, which supports him; and though the ideas of fall and descent, and harm and death, be derived solely from custom and experience.