 The contrary of every matter of fact is still possible; because it can never imply a contradiction, and is conceived by the mind with the same facility and distinctness, as if ever so conformable to reality. That the sun will not rise to-morrow is no...  Principles of psychology - Page 342by Herbert Spencer - 1910Full view - About this book
 | David Hume - Natural theology - 1825 - 526 pages
...and distinctness, as if ever so conformable to reality. That the sun will not rise to-mwroic-, is BO less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more...therefore, attempt to demonstrate its falsehood. Were it demon-s stratively false, it would imply a contradiction, and could never be distinctly conceived by... | |
 | David Hume - English essays - 1825 - 546 pages
...by the 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...contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rite. We should in vain, therefore, attempt to demonstrate its falsehood. Were it demonstratively false,... | |
 | David Hume - 1825 - 526 pages
...facility and distinctness, as if ever so conformable to reality. That the sun will not rise to-tnorrow, is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies...more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it wiS rise. We should in vain, therefore, attempt to demonstrate its falsehood. Were it demonstratively... | |
 | David Hume - Philosophy - 1854 - 596 pages
...by the 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...demonstratively false, it would imply a contradiction, and Tx)ul^^ It may therefore be a subject worthy of curiosity, to inquire what is the nature of that evidence,... | |
 | David Hume - Philosophy - 1854 - 576 pages
...facility and distinctness, as if ever so conformable to reality. That the sun mil not rise to-morroiv, is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies...more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it unlt rise. We should in vain, therefore, attempt to demonstrate its falsehood. Were it demonstratively... | |
 | George Jamieson - Philosophy - 1859 - 280 pages
...of any demonstrable conclusion in mathematics. Hume says no ! and gives an illustration. " That the sun will not rise to-morrow, is no less intelligible...contradiction, than the affirmation that it will rise." Indeed ! Then it would be equally plausible to say, that two and three will not make five to-morrow,... | |
 | George Jamieson - Causation - 1872 - 498 pages
...of any demonstrable conclusion in mathematics. Hume says no ! and gives an illustration. " That the sun will not rise to.morrow, is no less intelligible...contradiction, than the affirmation that it will rise." Indeed ! Then it would be equally plausible to say, that two and three will not make five to.morrow,... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Psychology - 1873 - 672 pages
...by the 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...contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise. \Ve sheuld in vain, therefore, attempt to demonstrate its falseheod. Were it demonstratively false,... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1873 - 678 pages
...by the 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...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
...by the 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...proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the nffirmation, that it will rise. We should in vain, therefore, attempt to demonstrate its falsehood.... | |
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