Critique of Pure ReasonHenry G. Bohn, 1855 - 517 pages |
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à priori according analytical analytical proposition antinomy apperception applied argument belong causality cause ception complete connection consciousness consequently constitution contains contingent cosmological cosmological argument deduction determined dialectical discover dition dogmatical empirical conditions empirical intuition employed existence extensive quantity external intuition former given ground Hence impossible inasmuch infinite intelligible internal sense judgment knowledge lative latter laws limits logical manifold mathematics means merely metaphysics mind mode moral nature necessity never nihil negativum noumenon objective validity ourselves perception phæno phænomena phænomenon philosophy possess possible experience predicate present presuppose priori cognition priori laws proof pure conceptions pure reason pure understanding quantity question rational psychology regard regress relation representation rience rule schema sensation sensibility sensuous intuition series of conditions space speculative reason sphere substance supreme synthesis synthetical propositions synthetical unity systematic unity term things thought tion transcendent transcendental ideas truth uncon unconditioned whole world of sense
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Page 122 - Men suffer all their life long under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time.
Page 374 - Being is obviously not a real predicate; that is, it is not a concept of something which could be added to the concept of a thing. It is merely the positing of a thing, or of certain determinations, as existing in themselves. Logically, it is merely the copula of a judgment. The proposition, "God is omnipotent," contains two concepts, each of which has its object — God and omnipotence. The small word "is" adds no new predicate, but only serves to posit the predicate in its relation to the subject.
Page 27 - But all thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.
Page 374 - ... absolutely given or existing. Thus the real contains no more than the possible. A hundred real dollars contain no more than a hundred possible dollars. For, as the latter indicate the conception, and the former the object, on the supposition that the content of the former was greater than that of the latter, my conception would not be an expression of the whole object, and would consequently be an inadequate conception of it.
Page 13 - ... this relation is possible in two different ways. Either the predicate B belongs to the subject A, as something which is (covertly) contained in this concept A; or B lies outside the concept A, although it does indeed stand in connection with it. In the one case I entitle the judgment analytic, in the other synthetic.
Page 7 - there can be no doubt. For how is it possible that the faculty of cognition should be awakened into exercise otherwise than by means of objects which affect our senses...
Page xxxiii - Reason must approach nature with the view, indeed, of receiving information from it, not, however, in the character of a pupil, who listens to all that his master chooses to tell him, but in that of a judge, who compels the witnesses to reply to those questions which he himself thinks fit to propose.
Page xxxix - In order to know an object, I must be able to prove its possibility, either from its reality, as attested by experience, or a priori by means of reason. But I can think whatever I please, provided only I do not contradict myself, that is, provided my conception is a possible thought, though I may be unable to answer for the existence of a corresponding object in the sum total of all possibilities.
Page 37 - If I am able to say, a priori, that all external phenomena are in space, and are determined, a priori, according to the relations of space, I can, according to the principle of the internal sense, make the general assertion that all phenomena, that is, all objects of the senses, are in time, and stand necessarily in relations of time.
Page 16 - A straight line between two points is the shortest," is a synthetical proposition. For my conception of straight contains no notion of quantity, but is merely qualitative. The conception of the shortest is therefore wholly an addition, and by no analysis can it be extracted from our conception of a straight line.