 | Thomas Taylor - 1812 - 628 էջ
...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 - 1812 - 622 էջ
...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... | |
 | Asiatic journal - 1838 - 1238 էջ
...greater power over your mind than any other source whatever. You see that by induction you cannot prove that it is impossible for the same thing to be and not to be at the same time, nor can you prove it by perception ; therefore, your proof is only from affirmation, which in this... | |
 | 1838 - 430 էջ
...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 - 1844 - 756 էջ
...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 - 1844 - 762 էջ
...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 - 1845 - 564 էջ
...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 - 1848 - 650 էջ
...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 էջ
...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 - 1849 - 526 էջ
...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. 
