[1705] A 743-4 = B 771-2.
[1706] A 753 = B 781. In A 745 = B 773 Kant’s mention of Hume can hardly refer to Hume’s Dialogues (cf. above, pp. 539-40 n.). Kant probably has in mind Section XI. of the Enquiry. The important discussion of Hume’s position in A 760 ff. = B 788 ff. has been commented upon above, p. 61 ff. With Priestley’s teaching (A 745-6 = B 773-4) Kant probably became acquainted through some indirect source. The first of Priestley’s philosophical writings to appear in German was his History of the Corruptions of Christianity. The translation was published in 1782. In A 747-8 = B 775-6 Kant quite obviously has Rousseau in mind.
[1707] Section III., on The Discipline of Pure Reason in Regard to Hypotheses, has been commented on above, pp. 543-6.
[1708] A 782 = B 810.
[1709] Even in mathematics the indirect method is not always available. Cf. Russell, Principles of Mathematics, i. p. 15.
[1710] A 794 = B 822.
[1711] Cf. above, p. 563 n. 2.
[1712] A 797 = B 825.
[1713] Cf. Critique of Judgment, W. v. p. 473; Bernard’s trans. p. 411: “God, freedom, and immortality are the problems at the solution of which all the preparations of Metaphysics aim, as their ultimate and unique purpose.”
[1714] A 800-1 = B 829.