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 29by David Hume - 1826Full view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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