A Commentary to Kant's C̀ritique of Pure Reason'

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Macmillan, 1918 - Causation - 615 pages

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Page 4 - Of myself I say nothing, but in behalf of the business which is in hand I entreat men to believe that it is not an opinion to be held but a work to be done...
Page 503 - I try to conceive a being, as the highest reality (without any defect), the question still remains, whether it exists or not. For though in my concept...
Page 428 - Through this I or he or it (the thing) which thinks, nothing further is represented than a transcendental subject of the thoughts = X. It is known only through the thoughts which are its predicates, and of it, apart from them, we cannot have any concept whatsoever, but can only revolve in a perpetual circle, since any judgment upon it has always already made use of its representation.
Page 572 - My practice, you say, refutes my doubts. But you mistake the purport of my question. As an agent, I am quite satisfied in the point; but as a philosopher who has some share of curiosity, I will not say scepticism, I want to learn the foundation of this inference.
Page 566 - Tis sufficient only to observe, that when we exclude all causes we really do exclude them, and neither suppose nothing nor the object itself to be the causes of the existence; and consequently can draw no argument from the absurdity of these suppositions to prove the absurdity of that exclusion.
Page xxx - ... man ; which not only escapes all human power and authority, but is not even restrained within the limits of nature and reality. To form monsters and join incongruous shapes and appearances, costs the imagination -no more trouble than to conceive the most natural and familiar objects. And while the body is confined to one planet, along...
Page 563 - In the knowledge of bodies, we must be content to glean what we can from particular experiments ; since we cannot, from a discovery of their real essences, grasp at a time whole sheaves, and in bundles comprehend the nature and properties of whole species together.
Page 186 - This peculiarity of our understanding, that it can produce a priori unity of apperception solely by means of the categories, and only by such and so many...
Page 566 - They are still more frivolous who say that every effect must have a cause because it is implied in the very idea of effect. Every effect necessarily presupposes a cause; effect being a relative term, of which cause is the correlative.
Page 563 - ... to know the properties of gold, it would be no more necessary that gold should exist, and that we should make experiments upon it, than it is necessary for the knowing the properties of a triangle, that a triangle should exist in any matter, the idea in our minds would serve for the one as well as the other.

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