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Newsletter
Number 7 January 2003
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For how should the faculty of knowledge be called
into activity, if not by objects which affect our senses, and which
either produce representations by themselves, or rouse the activity of
our understanding to compare, to connect, or to separate them; and
thus to convert the raw material of our sensuous impressions into a
knowledge of objects, which we call experience? In respect of time,
therefore, no knowledge within us is antecedent to experience, but all
knowledge begins with it.
- That all our knowledge begins with experience
there can be no doubt.
- For how should the faculty of knowledge be
called into activity
- if not by objects which affect our senses,
and which either produce representations by themselves, or
rouse the activity of our understanding to compare, to
connect, or to separate them;
- and thus to convert the raw material of our
sensuous impressions into a knowledge of objects, which we
call experience? In respect of time, therefore, no knowledge
within us is antecedent to experience, but all knowledge
begins with it.
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