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absolutely abstract act of consciousness action appears argument arises assume Atheism ausser axiom cause ception character cognition conceivable conception consequently considered contemporaneous Cudworth determined Divine scheme doctrine Dr Brown's effect element empirical ego endeavour Erscheinungen event existence experience faculty feeling follows former freedom ground gunpowder human liberty hypothesis imagination impossible independent individual instance intellectual intuition jective judgment Jupiter knowledge latter law of causality laws of human laws of nature laws of thought Leibnitz Libertarians limited lute man's means merely mind motion motive Necessarian necessary necessity never noumenon object observation P₁ parabola particular pheno phenomena phenomenon philosopher plane positive possible prescience present principle priori priori law proposition pure liberty question reason recognise reference relation representations result Richard Burthogge self-determination sensation sense sensible Sextus seyn shew shewn soul space sphere straight line suppose things thought tion truth unconditioned unity universal volition Wesen whole words
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Page 30 - Let the person come by his volition or choice how he will, yet, if he is able, and there is nothing in the way to hinder his pursuing and executing his will, the man is fully and perfectly free, according to the primary and common notion of freedom.
Page 28 - ... all things past, present, and to come are precisely what the Author of nature really intended them to be, and has made provision for.
Page 84 - I conceive, be found, if we advert to one of the characteristic properties of geometrical forms — their capacity of being painted in the imagination with a distinctness equal to reality ; in other words, the exact resemblance of our ideas of form to the sensations which suggest them.
Page 181 - B equal to 8, can we conceive that the determination of volition A should not be necessary ? We can only conceive the volition B to be determined by supposing that the man creates (calls from non-existence into existence) a certain supplement of influences. But this creation, as actual or in itself, is inconceivable ; and even to conceive the possibility of this inconceivable act, we must suppose some cause by which the man is determined to exert it. We thus, in thought, never escape determination...
Page 72 - If there be any suspicion that the course of nature may change, and that the past may be no rule for the future, all experience becomes useless, and can give rise to no inference or conclusion. It is impossible, therefore, that any arguments from experience can prove this resemblance of the past to the future: since all these arguments are founded on the supposition of that resemblance.
Page 30 - Liberty, and necessity are consistent; as in the water, that hath not only liberty, but a necessity...
Page 109 - That is to say, the consciousness of my own existence is at the same time an immediate consciousness of the existence of other things without me.
Page 191 - Kausalität beilegen sollten, die nicht Erscheinung ist, obgleich ihre Wirkung dennoch in der Erscheinung angetroffen wird.
Page 225 - In the act of sensible perception, I am conscious of two things; — of myself as the perceiving subject, and of an external reality, in relation with my sense, as the object perceived. Of the existence of both these things I am convinced ; because I am conscious of knowing each of them, not mediately, in something else, as represented, but immediately in itself, as existing.
Page 90 - ... instance in which there can be even a suspicion of an exception to the rule, that we should soon have stronger ground for believing the axiom, even as an experimental truth, than we have for almost any of the general truths which we confessedly learn from the evidence of our senses. Independently of A, priori evidence we should certainly believe it with an intensity of conviction far greater than we accord to any ordinary physical truth...