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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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Having thus discovered or supposed the two relations of contiguity and succession to be essential to causes and effects, I find I am stopt short, and can proceed no farther in considering any single instance of cause and effect.

 

The former--a priori cognition--is rational-mathematical cognition by means of the construction of the conception; the latter--a posteriori cognition--is purely empirical cognition, which does not possess the attributes of necessity and universality.

 The principle of these is; In all phenomena the Real, that which is an object of sensation, has Intensive Quantity, that is, has a Degree. 
  • The first kind arises in the soul originally, from unknown causes.
 When the imagination, from any extraordinary ferment of the blood and spirits, acquires such a vivacity as disorders all its powers and faculties, there is no means of distinguishing betwixt truth and falshood; but every loose fiction or idea, having the same influence as the impressions of the memory, or the conclusions of the judgment, is received on the same footing, and operates with equal force on the passions. If the sceptical reasonings be strong, say they, it is a proof, that reason may have some force and authority: if weak, they can never be sufficient to invalidate all the conclusions of our understanding.