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5626 | An a priori principle of persistence anticipates all experience [Kant] |
Full Idea: The principle of persistence is one that anticipates experience just as much as that of causality. | |
From: Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason [1781], B795/A767) | |
A reaction: This is the notion that identity is an indefinable basic of our understanding. He is objecting to Hume, who, of course, thought persistance was just an experience. Personally I persistance to be a posteriori, but how else could things exist? |