 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 - Psychology - 1906 - 788 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,...contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will ri»e. We should in vain, therefore, attempt to demonstrate its falsehood. Were it demonstratively... | |
 | David Hume - Ethics - 1907 - 324 pages
...the same facility and distinctness, as if ever so conformable to reality. That the sun will not rut to-morrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and...may, therefore, be a subject worthy of curiosity, to enquire what is the nature of that evidence which assures us of any real existence and matter of fact,... | |
 | Philosophy, Modern - 1908 - 768 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,...may, therefore, be a subject worthy of curiosity, to enquire what is the nature of that evidence which assures us of any real existence and matter of fact,... | |
 | George Hayward Joyce - Logic - 1908 - 448 pages
...every 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 " (Hume). (L. Inter. Arts. 1906.) 4. Is a plurality of causes possible ? (GMA 1908.) 5. " Cessante... | |
 | Philosophy, Modern - 1908 - 768 pages
...mind with the same facility and distinctness, as if ever so conformable to reality. That the sun unll not rise to-morrow is no less intelligible a proposition,...implies no more contradiction than the affirmation, thai it u'ill rise. We should in vain, therefore, attempt to demonstrate its falsehood. Were it demonstratively... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1909 - 234 pages
...mind with the samo 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 - Philosophy - 1910 - 780 pages
...with the same facility and distinctness, as if ever so conformable to reality. That tln: sun -will not rise to-morrow, is no less intelligible a proposition,...could never be distinctly conceived by the mind." Here, then, in Sections 1I. anil 1V. are two classifications; in the one of which " all the perceptions... | |
 | James Welton, Alexander James Monahan - Logic - 1911 - 544 pages
...every 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." 9. What different meanings do the logician and the psychologist respectively attach to the question,... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1914 - 344 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 mil rise. We should in vain, therefore, attempt to demonstrate its falsehood. Were it demonstratively... | |
 | John Snaith - Apologetics - 1914 - 424 pages
...mind with equal 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 affirmative that it will rise. We should in vain, therefore, attempt to demonstrate its falsehood.... | |
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