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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 debtor doesn't know who you are. For example, in the judgement-- "All bodies are divisible," our conception of divisible applies to various other conceptions; among these, however, it is here particularly applied to the conception of body, and this conception of body relates to certain phenomena which occur to us. A certain degree of heat gives pleasure; if you diminish that heat, the pleasure diminishes; but it does not follow, that if you augment it beyond a certain degree, the pleasure will likewise augment; for we find that it degenerates into pain. This is the cause of many mistakes and sophisms in philosophy; as will naturally be imagined, and as it would be easy to show, if there was occasion. - He has formed his mind on another's; but the imitative faculty is not the productive.
It is here that the real power of causes is placed along with their connexion and necessity. The present philosophy, therefore, has so far a promising aspect. But we have only to look at the different propositions which are commonly treated of at the commencement of proper (empirical) physical science--those, for example, relating to the permanence of the same quantity of matter, the vis inertiae, the equality of action and reaction, etc.--to be soon convinced that they form a science of pure physics (physica pura, or rationalis), which well deserves to be separately exposed as a special science, in its whole extent, whether that be great or confined.]