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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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Although M. Leibnitz did not announce this proposition with precisely the pomp of a new principle, he yet employed it for the establishment of new propositions, and his followers introduced it into their Leibnitzio-Wolfian system of philosophy.

 Nor must we omit on this occasion our accustomed method of examining ideas by considering those impressions, from which they are derived. The absence or presence of a part of the cause is attended with that of a proportionable part of the effect. [*Footnote; Clearness is not, as logicians maintain, the consciousness of a representation. This permanence is, however, nothing but the manner in which we represent to ourselves the existence of things in the phenomenal world. The conception of cause, for example, which expresses the necessity of an effect under a presupposed condition, would be false, if it rested only upon such an arbitrary subjective necessity of uniting certain empirical representations according to such a rule of relation. 

It may not be improper, before we leave this subject of the will, to resume, in a few words, all that has been said concerning it, in order to set the whole more distinctly before the eyes of the reader.

 [*Footnote; For the understanding cannot admit among phenomena a condition which is itself empirically unconditioned. But we discover variations from this course, and we proceed to suppose that the planets revolve in a path which, if not a circle, is of a character very similar to it. This distinction, however, is only empirical.