...belongs to omnipotence to give to error, the effect of truth, on the minds of free agents, than to cause a thing to be, and not to be, at the same time. A law without rewards or punishments, cannot be made as influential on moral beings, as a law with...

...belongs to omnipotence to give to error, the effect of truth, on the minds of free agents, than to cause a thing to be, and not to be, at the same time. A law without rewards or punishments, cannot be made as influential on moral beings, as a law with...

...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. Demon- 1-V- And now лте may affirn>, that, in all syllogisms «ration an of the first figure, if...

...confidently that he can do, what may involve the same contradiction, as to affirm that he can cause a thing to be and not to be at the same time ? Is God honoured by the assertions of mere ignorance, and by our affirming that to be true of him,...

...act or produce any other thing similar or dissimilar to itself: unless it can be supposed possible for a thing to be, and not to be, at the same time; which is a palpable absurdity. It follows therefore, from these premises, that there is an eternal...

...for why is it a self-contradiction, or an impossibility ? " It is impossible," said M. Leibnitz, " for a thing to be and not to be at the same time." This impossibility I admit ; because, to assert the contrary, would imply a self-contradiction absolute...

...reconciled, because I believe they are irreconcileable. If any man is able to prove that it is possible for a thing to be and not to be at the same time — if he can prove that it is possible to know a thing, and at the same time not to know it, then...

...for why is it a self-contradiction, or an impossibility ? " It is impossible," said M. Leibnitz, " for a thing to be and not to be at the same time.1' This impossibility I admit ; because, to assert the contrary, would imply a self-contradiction...

...he cannot work contradictions ; that he cannot cause two and two to be five ; that he cannot cause a thing to be, and not to be, at the same time ; but that he can cause a thing to be at one time, and not to be at another, involves no absurdity....

...essence remains without the essence, that is without itself : ' — The other, that ' this doctrine makes a thing to be and not to be, at the same time :' I shall use them both but promiscuously, because they are reducible to one. 11. The doctrine of...