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... admit of explanation . This opinion is adopted by Reid , Kant , Stewart , and Cousin , and is now more generally received than any other . But , entia non sunt multipli anda præter necessitatem ; we must not admit any phenomenon to be ...
... admit of explanation . This opinion is adopted by Reid , Kant , Stewart , and Cousin , and is now more generally received than any other . But , entia non sunt multipli anda præter necessitatem ; we must not admit any phenomenon to be ...
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... admit the justice of this boast ; if you grant Spinoza's premises , there is no stopping short of Spinoza's conclusions . Once admit that efficient causa- tion belongs to matter , that one particle really acts on another particle by its ...
... admit the justice of this boast ; if you grant Spinoza's premises , there is no stopping short of Spinoza's conclusions . Once admit that efficient causa- tion belongs to matter , that one particle really acts on another particle by its ...
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... admit , there- fore , the possibility that our friends survive , though we see them not , we must admit , also , that we have no evidence of their exist- ence but from revelation . A similar remark may be made on the analogy that is ...
... admit , there- fore , the possibility that our friends survive , though we see them not , we must admit , also , that we have no evidence of their exist- ence but from revelation . A similar remark may be made on the analogy that is ...
Contents
THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN PHYSICAL AND METAPHYSICAL | 1 |
THIS DISTINCTION APPLIED TO PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY | 25 |
CHAPTER VIII | 173 |
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