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but philosophers of the more sanguine sort, revel 

 in the luxury of unqualified assurance. 



The aim of the " Kritik der reinen Vernunft " 

 is essentially the same as that of the " Treatise of 

 Human Nature," by which indeed Kant was led 

 to develop that " critical philosophy " with which 

 his name and fame are indissolubly bound up : 

 and, if the details of Kant's criticism differ from 

 those of Hume, they coincide with them in their 

 main result, which is the limitation of all know- 

 ledge of reality to the world of phenomena re- 

 vealed to us by experience. 



The philosopher of Konigsberg epitomises the 

 philosopher of Ninewells when he thus sums up 

 the uses of philosophy : 



" The greatest and perhaps the sole use of all philosophy of 

 pure reason is, after all, merely negative, since it serves, not as 

 an organon for the enlargement [of knowledge], but as a discip- 

 line for its delimitation : and instead of discovering truth, has 

 only the modest merit of preventing error. l>1 



1 Kritik der reinen Vernunft. Ed. Hartenstein, p. 256. 



