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" Nothing is demonstrable, unless the contrary implies a contradiction. Nothing, that is distinctly conceivable, implies a contradiction. Whatever we conceive as existent, we can also conceive as non-existent. There is no being, therefore, whose non-existence... "
An Introductory Logic - Page 468
by James Edwin Creighton - 1909 - 520 pages
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The Philosophical Works of David Hume ...

David Hume - Philosophy - 1826 - 584 pages
...absurdity in pretending to demonstrate a matter of fact, or to prove it by any arguments a priori. Nothing is demonstrable, unless the contrary implies...there is no being, whose existence is demonstrable. I propose this argument as entirely decisive, and am willing to rest the whole controversy upon it....
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The Philosophical Works of David Hume ...

David Hume - Philosophy - 1826 - 592 pages
...absurdity in pretending to demonstrate a matter of fact, or to prove it by any arguments a priori. Nothing is demonstrable, unless the contrary implies...contradiction. Whatever we conceive as existent, we ran also conceive as non-existent. There is no being, therefore, whose non-existence implies a contradiction....
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The Necessary Existence of God

William Honyman Gillespie - God - 1843 - 422 pages
...to demonstrate at least one matter of fact. § 24. He opens his argument in the following manner. " Nothing is demonstrable, unless the contrary implies...contradiction. Nothing, that is distinctly conceivable. i"* • » " implies a contradiction." Both these propositions are granted to the fullest extent. But...
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The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th]

1846 - 810 pages
...to demonstrate at least one matter of fact. ' He opens his argument in the following manner. — ' Nothing is demonstrable, unless the contrary implies...is distinctly conceivable implies a contradiction.' Both these propositions are granted, to the fullest extent. But that which follows, — ' Whatever...
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The Eclectic Review, Volume 20; Volume 84

Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1846 - 810 pages
...to demonstrate at least one matter of fact. ' He opens his argument in the following manner. — ' Nothing is demonstrable, unless the contrary implies...is distinctly conceivable implies a contradiction.' Both these propositions are granted, to the fullest extent. But that which follows, — ' Whatever...
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Philosophical Works of David Hume, Volume 2

David Hume - Philosophy, English - 1854 - 568 pages
...by any arguments a priori. Nothing is demonstrable, unless the contrary implies a contradicy tion. Nothing, that is distinctly conceivable, implies a...there is no being, whose existence is demonstrable. I propose this argument as entirely decisive, and am willing to rest the whole controversy upon it....
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A Treatise on Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the ..., Volume 2

David Hume - Knowledge, Theory of - 1874 - 544 pages
...absurdity in pretending to demonstrate a matter of fact, or to prove it by any arguments a priori. Nothing is demonstrable, unless the contrary implies...there is no being, whose existence is demonstrable. I propose this argument as entirely decisive, and am willing to rest the whole controversy upon it....
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History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century, Volume 1

Leslie Stephen - Philosophy, English - 1876 - 496 pages
...it is evidently absurd to demonstrate a matter of fact, or to prove it by any arguments a priori1 ' Nothing is demonstrable, unless the contrary implies...there is no being whose existence is demonstrable. I propose this argument as entirely decisive, and am willing to rest the whole controversy upon it.'...
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History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century, Volume 1

Leslie Stephen - Philosophy, English - 1876 - 488 pages
...it is evidently absurd to demonstrate a matter of fact, or to prove it by any arguments a priori* ' Nothing is demonstrable, unless the contrary implies...Whatever we conceive as existent, we can also conceive as non-/ existent. There is no being, therefore, whose non-existence implies a contradiction. Consequently,...
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History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century, Volume 1

Leslie Stephen - Philosophy, English - 1881 - 490 pages
...that it is evidently absurd to demonstrate a matter of fact, or to prove it by any arguments a priori4 'Nothing is demonstrable, unless the contrary implies...implies a contradiction. Consequently, there is no being 1 'Dialogues,' ii. 390. " Ib. ii. 405. 3 Ib. ii. 407. 4 Ib. ii. 432. whose existence is demonstrable....
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