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At present I am not admitting anything except what is necessarily true. I am, then, in the strict sense only a thing that thinks; that is, I am a mind, or intelligence or intellect, or reason - words whose meaning I have been ignorant of until now. But for all that I am a thing which is real and which truly exists. But what kind of a thing? As I have just said - a thinking thing
Descartes
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Nothing is certain except that everything is doubtful
Descartes
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But whatever Power I may have over my own Thoughts, find the Ideas actually perceived by Sense have not a like Dependency on my Will. When in broad Day-light I open my Eyes, it is not in my Power to choose whether I shall see or no, or to determine what particular Objects shall present themselves to my View; and so likewise as to Hearing and other Senses, the Ideas imprimted on them are not Creatures of my Will. There is therefore some other Will of Spirit that produces them.
Berkeley
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The only things we perceive are our perceptions
Berkeley
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Because in a game of billiards the red ball moves every time the white ball hits it, we assume a causal relationship between the two, but there is no logical reason for that relationship. We do not have an impression of the causality itself, there is only the association of two events that always seem to take place one after the other.
Hume
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Let men be once fully persuaded of these two principles, that there is nothing in any object, considered in itself, which can afford us a reason for drawing a conclusion beyond it; and, that even after the observation of the frequent or constant conjunction of objects, we have no reason to draw any inference concerning any object beyong those of which we have had experience.
Hume
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Let us then suppose the mind to be as we say, white paper, void of all characters without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from experience.
Locke
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Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
Locke
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It is quite possible that our empircal knowledge is a compound of that which we receive through impressions, and that which the faculty of cognition supplies from itself (sensuous impressions giving merely the occasion), an addition which we cannot distinguish from the original element given by the sense.
Kant
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All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
Kant
