him, the difficulty as to the relation of the pure connective notions
to experience. These notions are not directly applicable to
experience, nor do we find in experience anything corresponding to the
pure intellectual notions of substance, cause and reciprocity. But
experience is for us the combination of data of sense in the forms of
productive imagination, forms determined by the pure intellectual
notions, and accordingly experience is possible for us only as in
modes corresponding to the notions. The permanent in time is substance
in any possible experience, and no experience is possible save through
the determination of all changes as in relation to a permanent in
time. Determined sequence is the causal relation in any possible
experience, and no experience is possible save through the
determination of perceived changes as in relation to a determined
order in time. So with coexistence and reciprocity.
The postulates of experience are general expressions of the
significance of existence in the experience of a conscious subject.
The element of reality in such experience must always be given by
intuition, and, so far as determination of existence is assumed,
external intuition is a necessary condition of inner intuition. The
existence of external things is as certain as the existence of the
concrete subject, and the subject cannot cognise himself as existing
save in relation to the world of facts of external perception. Inner
and outer reality are strictly correlative elements in the experience
of the conscious subject.
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