Status Updates From Critique of Pure Reason

A constitution founded on the greatest human freedom according to laws which ensure that the freedom of each can exist side by side with the freedom of others (without any regard to the greatest happiness, because that will surely follow by itself) is at least a necessary idea, on which not only the first plan of the constitution of a state, but also all laws must be based.

A distinction is commonly made between wgat is immediately known and what is only inferred...As we are constantly obliged to make inferences, we grow so accustomed to it that in the end we no longer notice this distinction, and often...mistake what we have only inferred for something perceived immediately.