 That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction than the affirmation that it will rise. We should in vain, therefore, attempt to demonstrate its falsehood. Were it demonstratively false, it...  Hume - Page 115by Thomas Henry Huxley - 1879 - 208 pagesFull view - About this book
 | David Hume - Economics - 1804 - 552 pages
...to-morrow, is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction than the affirmation, that it will rise. We should in vain, therefore, attempt...and could never be distinctly conceived by the mind. : It may therefore be a subject •worthy of curiosity, to inquire what is the nature of that evidence,... | |
 | David Hume - 1809 - 556 pages
...to-morrow, is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise. We should in vain, therefore, attempt...and could never be distinctly conceived by the mind. ., It may therefore be a subject worthy of curiosity, to inquire what is the nature of that evidence,... | |
 | David Hume - 1825 - 526 pages
...less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it wiS rise. We should in vain, therefore, attempt to demonstrate...and could never be distinctly conceived by the mind. It may therefore be a subject worthy of curiosity, to inquire what is the nature of that evidence,... | |
 | David Hume - English essays - 1825 - 546 pages
...intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rite. We should in vain, therefore, attempt to demonstrate...and could never be distinctly conceived by the mind. It may therefore be a subject worthy of curiosity, to inquire what is the nature of that evidence,... | |
 | David Hume - Natural theology - 1825 - 526 pages
...to-mwroic-, is BO less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise. We should in vain, 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 - Philosophy - 1854 - 576 pages
...less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it unlt rise. We should in vain, therefore, attempt to demonstrate...and could never be distinctly conceived by the mind. It may therefore be a subject worthy of curiosity, to inquire what is the nature of that evidence,... | |
 | David Hume - Philosophy - 1854 - 596 pages
...to-morrow, is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise. We should in vain, therefore, attempt...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,... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Psychology - 1872 - 670 pages
...to-morrow, is no loss intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise. We should in vain, therefore, attempt...could never be distinctly conceived by the mind." Here, then, in Sections II. and IV. are two classifications ; in the one of which " all the perceptions... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Psychology - 1873 - 670 pages
...to-morrow, is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise. We should in vain, therefore, attempt...could never be distinctly conceived by the mind." Here, then, in Sections II. and IV. are two classifications ; in the one of which " all the perceptions... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1873 - 678 pages
...less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it witt rise. We should in vain, therefore, attempt to demonstrate...could never be distinctly conceived by the mind." Here, then, in Sections II. and IV. are two classifications ; in the one of which " all the perceptions... | |
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