 | Sir William Hamilton - 1852 - 848 páginas
...more appropriate simile) the eagle outsoar the atmosphere in which he floats, and by which alone ho may be supported ; so the mind cannot transcend that...through which exclusively the possibility of thought is realised. Thought is only of the conditioned ; because, as we have said, to think is simply to condition.... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1853 - 606 páginas
...shows, that as the eagle cannot out-soar the atmosphere in which he floats, and by which alone he is he argues, is only of the conditioned, because to think is to condition : conditional limitation is... | |
 | 1853 - 570 páginas
...shows, that as the eagle cannot out-soar the atmosphere in which he floats, and by which alone he is supported ; so the mind cannot transcend that sphere...through which exclusively the possibility of thought is realised. Thought, he argues, is only of the conditioned, because to think is to cojidition : conditional... | |
 | Joseph Jones - 1853 - 208 páginas
...is to condition ; and conditional limitation is the fundamental law of the possibility of thought. The mind cannot transcend that sphere of limitation,...through which exclusively the possibility of thought is realised. Thought is only of the conditioned. 7. Thought cannot transcend consciousness: consciousness,... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1854 - 444 páginas
...shadow, nor (by a more appropriate simile) the eagle outsoar the atmosphere in which he floats, and by which alone he may be supported, so the mind cannot...through which exclusively the possibility of thought is realised." This is most true, and as admirably expressed as it is true. Time and Space are thus, then,... | |
 | 1861 - 824 páginas
...shadow, nor (by a more appropriate simile) the eagle outsoar the atmosphere in which he floats, and by which alone he may be supported ; so the mind cannot...conceived merely by a negation of conceivability ; and all we know is only known as ' Won from the void and formless infinite.' How, indeed, it could ever be... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1861 - 816 páginas
...outsoar the atmosphere in which he floats, and by which alone he may be supported ; so the mind can not transcend that sphere of limitation, within and through...is conceived merely by a negation of conceivability ; arid all that we know, is only known as ' won from the void and formless in How, indeed, it could... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1862 - 528 páginas
...shadow, nor (by a more appropriate simile) the eagle outsoar the atmosphere in which he floats, and by which alone he may be supported ; so the mind cannot...said, to think is simply to condition. The absolute^ conceived merely. Jby— a- negation- of- eeaeeivability ; and fill that_w£_knpwLis only known as... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1865 - 342 páginas
...more appropriate simile) the eagle outsoar the atmosphere in which he floats, and by which alone he is supported, so the mind cannot transcend that sphere...negation of conceivability ; and all that we know, is known as — ' Won from the cold and formless Infinite.' " How, indeed, it could ever be doubted that... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1865 - 332 páginas
...more appropriate simile) the eagle outsoar the atmosphere in which he floats, and by which alone he is supported, so the mind cannot transcend that sphere...negation of conceivability ; and all that we know, is known as — * Won from the cold and formless Infinite.9 "How, indeed, it could ever be doubted that... | |
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To think is to condition ; and conditional limitation is the fundamental law of the possibility of thought. For as the greyhound cannot outstrip his shadow, nor (by a more appropriate simile) the eagle outsoar the atmosphere in which he floats, and by... 
