 | Thomas Taylor - Philosophy, Ancient - 1812 - 628 pages
...Bacon thinks fit to consider axioms, or such assertions as that the whole is greater than a part, and that it is impossible for the same thing to be and not to be at the same time, as things which are to be suspected ? He also adds, that the purification of intellect in order to... | |
 | Thomas Taylor - Philosophy, Ancient - 1812 - 622 pages
...affirmation or negation, is true; that the whole is greater than a part; that all beings desire good ; and that it is impossible for the same thing to be and not to be at at the same time ; and a great number of others ; though these have been admitted by men in all ages... | |
 | Asia - 1833 - 604 pages
...cannot corroborate them by induction. What but affirmation tells you that Gulliver was not a philosopher of the Sanchya school ? Were you to make true confession,...You see that by induction you cannot prove that it U impossible for the same thing to be and not to be at the same time, nor can you prove it by perception,... | |
 | Anglo-Indian literature - 1838 - 430 pages
...And you do not deny that something is, and something is not ; and why, therefore, should you affirm that it is impossible for the same thing to be and not to be at the same time, because you cannot conceive how it can be ? You seem to know neither being nor not being, yet you make... | |
 | Israel Daniel Rupp - Christian sects - 1844 - 756 pages
...of mankind." Sin is necessarily incidental to every probationary system. Until we upset the axiom, " That it is impossible for the same thing to be and not to be at the same time," it is no derogation from Omnipotence to say, that it could not do things so contradictory as to convert... | |
 | Israel Daniel Rupp - Church statistics - 1844 - 762 pages
...of mankind." Sin is necessarily incidental to every probationary system. Until we upset the axiom, " That it is impossible for the same thing to be and not to be at the same lime," it is no derogation from Omnipotence to say, that it could not do things so contradictory as... | |
 | Samuel Noble - New Jerusalem Church - 1845 - 564 pages
...resurrection of the body is impossible, no more includes a negation of the Divine Omnipotence, than to affirm that it is impossible for the same thing to be and not to be at the same time. On the other hand, they who maintain such resurrection to be possible, in reality affirm it to be possible... | |
 | Israel Daniel Rupp - Christian sects - 1848 - 650 pages
...of mankind.' Sin is necessarily incidental to every probationary system. Until we upset the axiom, 'That it is impossible for the same thing to be and not to be at the same time,' it is no derogation from Omnipotence to say, that it could not do things so contradictory as to convert... | |
 | Jaime Luciano Balmes - 1849 - 486 pages
...and he who says no, thinks yes is a mistake. This is only an application of the well-known principle, that it is impossible for the same thing to be and not to be at the same time. But, we shall be asked, what do you mean when you use these words 'to respect opinions ?' is it always... | |
 | Francis Bowen - Apologetics - 1849 - 526 pages
...each other, and no meaning remains. All metaphysical impossibilities can be reduced to the formula, that it is impossible for the same thing to be and not to be at the same moment, as this would be an absurdity, — that is, an absurd or meaningless statement. Thus, virtue... | |
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All metaphysical impossibilities can be reduced to the formula, that it is impossible for the same thing to be and not to be at the same moment, as this would be an absurdity, — that is, an absurd or meaningless statement. 
