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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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When reason employs conceptions alone, only one proof of its thesis is possible, if any. We are pleased when we acquire an ability of procuring pleasure, and are displeased when another acquires a power of giving pain. I shall therefore content my self with observing, that the decision of Trebonian seems to me pretty ingenious; that the cup belongs to the proprietor of the metal, because it can be brought back to its first form: But that the ship belongs to the author of its form for a contrary reason. A virtuous motive is requisite to render an action virtuous. Long absence naturally weakens our idea, and diminishes the passion: But where the idea is so strong and lively as to support itself, the uneasiness, arising from absence, encreases the passion and gives it new force and violence. 3. Space is no discursive, or as we say, general conception of the relations of things, but a pure intuition. The appearances of objects to our senses are all consistent; and no difficulties can ever arise, but from the obscurity of the terms we make use of. - But an object is that, in the conception of which the manifold in a given intuition is united.