| George Campbell - English language - 1801 - 462 pages
...conscious, my conviction is reducible to this axiom, or coincident with it, " It is impossible for a thing to be and not to be at " the same time." Now, when I say, I trust entirely to the clear report of my memory, I mean a good deal more than, "... | |
| William Duncan - Logic - 1802 - 258 pages
...are perfect ; or to say that nil men are mortal, and yet that some men are not mortal, is to assert a thing to be and not to be at the same time. Sec. IV. ...Demonstration, an Infallible Guide to Truth and Certainty. And now I think we are sufficiently... | |
| William Duncan - Logic - 1802 - 256 pages
...are perfect ; or to say that all men are mortal, and yet that some men are not mortal, is to assert a thing to be and not to be at the same time. S«c. IV.... Demonstration, an Infallible Guide to Truth and Certainty. And now I think we are sufficiently... | |
| John Aikin - Biography - 1807 - 684 pages
...proposes two principles as the foundation of all our knowledge; the first, that it is impossible for a thing to be and not to be at the same time, which, he says, is the foundation of speculative truth. The other is, that nothing is without a sufficient... | |
| Samuel Whelpley - History - 1808 - 390 pages
...afford conviction, that he can create. There seems nothing absurd or extravagant in the idea, that a being of Almighty Power can create out of nothing....is not derogating from the respect due to God, to believe and to say, that he cannot work impossibilities or contradictions ; for instance, that he cannot... | |
| John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 486 pages
...are absolutely impossible, and others which are only so exparte; as it is absolutely impossible for a thing to be, and not to be at the same time : But for a stone to move naturally upward, is only impossible ex parte materife; but it is not impossible... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be, and not to be, at the same time. There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the... | |
| John Gill - Baptists - 1810 - 620 pages
...to such dignity as to have divine perfections ascribed to it; he cannot make contradictions true ; a thing to be, and not to be at the same time ; or make a thing not to have been that has been ; but then these are no prejudices to his omnipotence,... | |
| Joseph Bellamy - 1812 - 702 pages
...reconciled to a character against which he was not at enmity, implies a contradiction. For it supposes a thing to be, and not to be, at the same time. For a call to a reconciliation supposes enmity. Therefore the Gospel did not call Adam after his fall... | |
| Joseph Bellamy - Congregational churches - 1812 - 556 pages
...reconciled to a character against which he was not at enmity, implies a contradiction. For it supposes a thing to be, and not to be, at the same time. For a call to a reconciliation supposes enmity. Therefore the Gospel did not call Adam after his fall... | |
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