The unconditionally unlimited, or the Infinite, the unconditionally limited, or the Absolute, cannot positively be construed to the mind ; they can be conceived only by a thinking away from, or abstraction of, those very conditions under which thought... New Englander and Yale Review - Page 823edited by - 1858Full view - About this book
| 1835 - 916 pages
...by a thinking away, or abstraction of those very condiliens under which thought itself is realised; ervitude. Now, in the mind of Mr. Soulhey For example, on Ihe one hand we can positively conceive neither an absolute whole, that is, a whole... | |
| Methodist Church - 1861 - 716 pages
...unconditionally unlimited, or the infinite, the unconditionally limited or the absolute, cannot positively be construed to the mind ; they can be conceived only...only negative, negative of the conceivable itself. For example, on the one hand we can positively conceive neither an absolute whole, that is, a whole... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1845 - 560 pages
...cannot positively be construed to the mind ; they can be conceived at all only by a thinking away, or abstraction, of those very conditions under which...negative, — negative of the conceivable itself. For example, on the one hand, we can positively conceive neither an absolute whole, that is, a whole... | |
| Sir William Hamilton - Education - 1853 - 832 pages
...unconditionally unlimited, or the Infinite, the unconditionally limited, or the Absolute, can not positively be construed to the mind ; they can be conceived, only...only negative — negative of the conceivable itself. For example, on the one hand we can positively conceive, neither an absolute whole, that is, a whole... | |
| Sir William Hamilton - Education - 1853 - 828 pages
...unconditionally unlimited, or the Infinite, the unconditionally limited, or the Absolute, can not positively be construed to the mind ; they can be conceived, only...only negative — negative of the conceivable itself. For example, on the one hand we can positively conceive, neither an absolute whole, that is, a whole... | |
| Henry Calderwood - Infinite - 1854 - 386 pages
..."The unconditionally unlimited, or the Infinite, cannot positively be construed to the mind ; [it] can be conceived, only by a thinking away from, or...negative — negative of the conceivable itself."* Both in this passage and in the one already quoted, we are presented with the assertion that our notion... | |
| John Williams - Welsh language - 1854 - 234 pages
...limited, or the absolute, cannot possibly be construed to the mind ; they can be conceived only by thinking away from, or abstraction of, those very...only negative, negative of the conceivable itself. For example, on the one hand we can positively conceive neither an absolute whole, that is a whole... | |
| Eleazar Lord - Bible - 1859 - 168 pages
...unconditionally unlimited, or the Infinite, the unconditionally limited, or the Absolute, can not positively be construed to the mind ; they can be conceived only...only negative — negative of the conceivable itself. .... The result is the same, whether we apply the process to limitations in space, in time, or in degree.... | |
| Sir William Hamilton - Philosophy - 1859 - 546 pages
...unconditionally unlimited, or the Infinite, the unconditionally limited, or the Absolute, cannot positively be construed to the mind ; they can be conceived, only...negative, — negative of the conceivable itself. For example, on the one hand we can positively conceive, neither an absolute whole, that is, a whole... | |
| John Kitto - Bible - 1860 - 526 pages
...unconditionally unlimited, or the infinite, the unconditionally limited or the absolute, cannot positively be construed to the mind; they can be conceived only...negative — negative of the conceivable itself." — Phil., p. 454. That is, the idea of God is either nothing — so that we have none — or it is... | |
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