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Click on the phrases to see them in context. The original texts by Immanuel Kant and David Hume are available from the Gutenberg Projet.

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And thus, though every impression and idea we remember be considered as existent, the idea of existence is not derived from any particular impression.

 The second proposition of the antithesis--that there exists in the world nothing that is simple--is here equivalent to the following; The existence of the absolutely simple cannot be demonstrated from any experience or perception either external or internal; and the absolutely simple is a mere idea, the objective reality of which cannot be demonstrated in any possible experience; it is consequently, in the exposition of phenomena, without application and object. [*Footnote; As to the existence of pure natural science, or physics, perhaps many may still express doubts. 
It is therefore by EXPERIENCE only, that we can infer the existence of one object from that of another.
 

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 But if we believe that everything in the world--be it condition or conditioned--is contingent; every given existence is too small for our conception. Now, as we cannot reason from the non-consciousness of such a manifold to the impossibility of its existence in the intuition of an object, and as the proof of this impossibility is necessary for the establishment and proof of absolute simplicity; it follows that this simplicity cannot be inferred from any perception whatever.