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And although the result of these conflicts of reason is not what we expected--although we have obtained no positive dogmatical addition to metaphysical science--we have still reaped a great advantage in the correction of our judgements on these subjects of thought. This therefore is the nature of the judgment and probability. But take any other case. The idea of motion depends on that of extension, and the idea of extension on that of solidity. If this were not the case, the causality of reason would be subservient to the natural law of phenomena, which determines them according to time, and as a series of causes and effects in time; it would consequently cease to be freedom and become a part of nature. This conception of causality leads us to the conception of action; that of action, to the conception of force; and through it, to the conception of substance. From this principle I conclude, that the first virtuous motive, which bestows a merit on any action, can never be a regard to the virtue of that action. Whatever is clearly conceived may exist; and whatever is clearly conceived, after any manner, may exist after the same manner. Nothing can undeceive us, not even our senses, which, instead of correcting this false judgment, are often perverted by it, and seem to authorize its errors.