Kant's Prolegomena: And Metaphysical Foundations of Natural ScienceG. Bell and Sons, 1883 - 254 pages |
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Page 20 - ... as : air is an elastic fluid, the elasticity of which is not destroyed by any known degree of cold), it follows that the concept indeed, but not the analytical judgment, is properly metaphysical.
Page xciv - We may assume that the quasi-mental fact which corresponds and which goes along with the motion of every particle of matter, is of such inconceivable simplicity, as compared with our own mental fact, with our consciousness, as the motion of a molecule of matter is of inconceivable simplicity when compared with the motion in our brain.
Page 32 - What can more resemble my hand or my ear, and be in all points more like, than its image in the looking-glass ? i And yet I cannot put such a hand as I see in the glass in the place of its original...
Page 25 - They will then speak the modest language of a rational belief, they will grant that they are not allowed even to conjecture, far less to know, anything which lies beyond the bounds of all possible experience, but...
Page 46 - ... nor to its state at a particular time. Hence I pronounce all such judgments as being objectively valid. For instance, when I say the air is elastic, this judgment is as yet a judgment of perception only — I do nothing but refer two of my sensations to one another.
Page 40 - Descartes, (indeed, his was only an insoluble problem, owing to which he thought every one at liberty to deny the existence of the corporeal world, because it could never be proved satisfactorily), or with the mystical and visionary idealism of Berkeley, against which and other similar phantasms our Critique contains the proper antidote. My idealism concerns not the existence of things...
Page 124 - The dictum of all genuine idealists from the Eleatic school to Bishop Berkeley, is contained in this formula: "All cognition through the senses and experience is nothing but sheer illusion, and only, in the ideas of the pure understanding and reason there is truth.
Page 92 - Otherwise the effect, as well as the causality of the cause, would have always existed. Therefore the determination of the cause to act must also have originated among appearances, and must consequently...
Page 14 - ... incontestably certain, and most important in its consequences. For as it was found that the conclusions of mathematicians all proceed according to the...
Page 223 - In all communication of motion, action and reaction are always equal to one another.