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" That the sun will not rise to-morrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction than the affirmation, that it will rise. We should in vain, therefore, attempt to demonstrate its falsehood. Were it demonstratively false, it... "
The Philosophical Works of David Hume ... - Page 29
by David Hume - 1826
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The Principles of psychology, Volume 2

Herbert Spencer - 1873 - 678 pages
...mind with the same facility and distinctness, as if ever so conformable to reality. That the sun will not rise to-morrow, is no less intelligible a proposition,...more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it witt rise. We should in vain, therefore, attempt to demonstrate its falsehood. Were it demonstratively...
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Hume

Thomas Henry Huxley - 1879 - 230 pages
...mind with the same facility and distinctness, as if ever so conformable to reality. That the sun will not rise to-morrow, is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the nffirmation, that it will rise. We should in vain, therefore, attempt to demonstrate its falsehood....
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The principles of psychology. stereotyped, Volume 2

Herbert Spencer - 1881 - 752 pages
...with the same facility and distinctness, as if ever so conformable to reality. That the sun ic ill not rise to-morrow, is no less intelligible a proposition,...could never be distinctly conceived by the mind." Here, then, in Sections II. and IV. are two classifications ; in the one of which " all the perceptions...
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Works, Volume 3

Herbert Spencer - 1881 - 756 pages
...mind with the same facility and distinctness, as if ever so conformable to reality. That the sun will not rise to-morrow, is no less intelligible a proposition,...could never be distinctly conceived by the mind." Here, then, in Sections II. and IV. are two classifications ; in the one of which " all the perceptions...
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Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason: In Commemoration of the ..., Volume 1

Immanuel Kant - Causation - 1881 - 590 pages
...matter of fact is still possible ; because it can never imply a contradiction . . . That the sun will not rise to-morrow is no less intelligible a proposition,...contradiction, than the affirmation that it will rise l ; ' there is no logical necessity affecting matters of fact. If we turn to abstract and a priori...
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The Critique of pure reason as illustrated by a sketch of the development of ...

Immanuel Kant - 1881 - 592 pages
...matter of fact is still possible ; because it can never imply a contradiction . . . That the sun vrill not rise to-morrow is no less intelligible a proposition,...contradiction, than the affirmation that it will rise l ; ' there is no logical necessity affecting matters of fact. If we turn to abstract and a priori...
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Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason: In Commemoration of the ..., Volume 1

Immanuel Kant - Causation - 1881 - 590 pages
...matter of fact is still possible ; because it can never imply a contradiction . . . That the sun ivill not rise to-morrow is no less intelligible a proposition,...more contradiction, than the affirmation that it will rise1;' there is no logical necessity affecting matters of fact. If we turn to abstract and a priori...
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The Principles of Psychology, Volume 2

Herbert Spencer - Psychology - 1882 - 722 pages
...mind with the same facility and distinctness, as if ever so conformable to reality. That the sun will not rise to-morrow, is no less intelligible a proposition,...implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, Unit it will rue. We should in vain, therefore, attempt to demonstrate its falsehood. Were it demonstratively...
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The World's Cyclopedia of Biography, Volume 3

Biography - 1883 - 836 pages
...mind with the same facility and distinctness as if ever so conformable to reality. That the sun will not rise to-morrow, is no less intelligible a proposition,...could never be distinctly conceived by the mind."— ( IV., PP- 32. 33-) The distinction here drawn between the truths of geometry and other kinds of truth...
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The Principles of Psychology, Volume 2

Herbert Spencer - Psychology - 1883 - 720 pages
...mind with the same facility and distinctness, as if ever so conformable to reality. Thai the sun will not rise to-morrow, is no less intelligible a proposition,...contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rue. We should in vain, therefore, attempt to demonstrate its falsehood. Were it demonstratively false,...
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