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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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The first is the physicotheological argument, the second the cosmological, the third the ontological. For what reason? but because a hasty temper, though a constant cause in the mind, operates only by intervals, and infects not the whole character. These prejudicial consequences become still more evident, in the case of the dogmatical treatment of our idea of a Supreme Intelligence, and the theological system of nature (physico-theology) which is falsely based upon it. - This distinction is undoubtedly requisite, in the case of a regulative principle, the necessity of which we recognize, though we are ignorant of the source and cause of that necessity, and which we assume to be based upon some ultimate ground, for the purpose of being able to cogitate the universality of the principle in a more determinate way.
I shall conclude this subject of extension with a paradox, which will easily be explained from the foregoing reasoning. By probability, that evidence, which is still attended with uncertainty. It is happy, therefore, that nature breaks the force of all sceptical arguments in time, and keeps them from having any considerable influence on the understanding.