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Quotation from Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
“A hundred real dollars contain no more than a hundred possible dollars”
Critique of Pure Reason, Transcendental Dialectic, Ideal of Pure Reason, Sect. IV (A 599 / B 627), trans. J. M. D. Meiklejohn (1855)
Kant's illustration that existence is not a real predicate, refuting the ontological argument.
Citation: "A hundred real dollars contain no more than a hundred possible dollars" — Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, Transcendental Dialectic, Ideal of Pure Reason, Sect. IV (A 599 / B 627), trans. J. M. D. Meiklejohn (1855). (id critique-of-pure-reason-q11)
Portrait: Immanuel Kant - Gemaelde 2, Becker, Public domain.
