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... NECESSARY AND CONTINGENT TRUTH ( 4 ) Some Contingent Truths 195 • • 196 196 • • 202 204 209 • 211 · • 217 1. Touching Human Existence and Human Nature 2. Touching the Lower Animals . • 217 221 3. Touching the Vegetable Kingdom 4 ...
... NECESSARY AND CONTINGENT TRUTH ( 4 ) Some Contingent Truths 195 • • 196 196 • • 202 204 209 • 211 · • 217 1. Touching Human Existence and Human Nature 2. Touching the Lower Animals . • 217 221 3. Touching the Vegetable Kingdom 4 ...
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... Contingent and the Necessary stand upon equally 289 300 308 310 311 • 233 · 237 241 242 243 252 • · 277 sound Footing . . CHAPTER VII EXPLICATION OF EXPERIENCE ( A ) Of Contingent Truth • ( B ) Of Necessary Truth • CHAPTER VIII · 313 ...
... Contingent and the Necessary stand upon equally 289 300 308 310 311 • 233 · 237 241 242 243 252 • · 277 sound Footing . . CHAPTER VII EXPLICATION OF EXPERIENCE ( A ) Of Contingent Truth • ( B ) Of Necessary Truth • CHAPTER VIII · 313 ...
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... contingent truth , as we shall 1 Cook : Monday Lectures ( 2nd Series ) , pp . 40-9 . 2 Hamilton's Reid , p . 865 , note . 3 Written some years ago . see further on ; and it is therefore subject to 168 GRAMMAR OF PHILOSOPHY.
... contingent truth , as we shall 1 Cook : Monday Lectures ( 2nd Series ) , pp . 40-9 . 2 Hamilton's Reid , p . 865 , note . 3 Written some years ago . see further on ; and it is therefore subject to 168 GRAMMAR OF PHILOSOPHY.
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... Contingent Truth— " Is but a titular princess whose authority Is always under age and in minority " ; but so far as knowledge goes , she is perfectly reliable in her language , never a frivolous or capricious princess , say- ing one ...
... Contingent Truth— " Is but a titular princess whose authority Is always under age and in minority " ; but so far as knowledge goes , she is perfectly reliable in her language , never a frivolous or capricious princess , say- ing one ...
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... NECESSARY AND CONTINGENT TRUTH It is very important that the philosopher should note the great distinction that exists between Truth Necessary and Truth Contingent . This distinction will be found to yield great consequences , more ...
... NECESSARY AND CONTINGENT TRUTH It is very important that the philosopher should note the great distinction that exists between Truth Necessary and Truth Contingent . This distinction will be found to yield great consequences , more ...
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Page 154 - With that grim ferryman which poets write of, Unto the kingdom of perpetual night. The first that there did greet my stranger soul, Was my great father-in-law, renowned Warwick ; Who cried aloud, " What scourge for perjury Can this dark monarchy afford false Clarence...
Page 43 - And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
Page 294 - Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty : for all that is in the heaven, and in the earth is thine ; thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art exalted as head above all.
Page 247 - A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good ; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil : for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.
Page 350 - And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment; that ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ; being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
Page 9 - My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee, so that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding ; if thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures ; then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.
Page 289 - Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended ? who hath gathered the wind in his fists ? who hath bound the waters in a garment ? who hath established all the ends of the earth ? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if thou canst tell ? 5 Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.
Page 152 - Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep : so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
Page 152 - I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Page 307 - Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth : and the heavens are the work of Thy hands. They shall perish, but Thou shalt endure : they all shall wax old as doth a garment ; And as a vesture shalt Thou change them, and they shall be changed : but Thou art the same, and Thy years shall not fail.