Excerpt from Kant's Inaugural Dissertation of 1770: Translated Into English, With an Introduction and Discussion But will not Hume's habitual association do as a definition of cause P - Kant thinks not. The semblance of a conviction, based on subjective association and mistaken for the percep tion of a natural affinity, cannot balance the misgivings justly roused by such bold proceedings. The proofs, like streams that have broken their banks, run wild'ly across the fields wherever the inclination of some hidden association may chance to lead them. We must show the possibility of ar riving synthetically and a priori at a certain knowledge of things not contained in the concept of the thing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.