... terms is absent from consciousness. Hence it is impossible to think of something becoming nothing, for the same reason that it is impossible to think of nothing becoming something — the reason, namely, that nothing cannot become an object of consciousness.... Logic: Induction - Page 36by Alexander Bain - 1870Full view - About this book
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