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Law of nature (n.) of ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the universal kind are at the same time the principles of possible experience — which is how they can be known a priori.

The Law of nature (n.) carries ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠an air of necessity no experience could supply — a presumption that it rests on grounds valid before all experience.

A Law of nature (n.) of ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the particular kind cannot be derived from the categories, though all stand under them; experience must be added to learn it at all.

The Law of nature (n.) that ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠everything that happens has a cause admits no exception: exempt a single appearance and you turn it into a mere thought-entity, a figment of the brain.

Law of nature (n.) are ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠best sought not in nature as a thing in itself — a fruitless wandering after laws for things about which nothing is given — but in the conditions of experience itself.

Law of nature (n.) have ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠their origin in the understanding and are as little to be met outside it as space and time are — otherwise we could know them only as contingent.

The Law of nature (n.) that ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠nothing happens without a sufficient cause contradicts itself when taken as the only causality, for then there is never a first beginning and the series of causes is never complete.