The Works of Thomas Chalmers, Volume 1W. Collins, 1836 |
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Page 112
... causes it to be just what it is . Because we do not see the reason why matter should have been placed here and not there in immensity - because we cannot tell the specific cause of its various forms , and modifica- tions , and movements ...
... causes it to be just what it is . Because we do not see the reason why matter should have been placed here and not there in immensity - because we cannot tell the specific cause of its various forms , and modifica- tions , and movements ...
Page 129
... cause . If experience and observation and analogy be indeed the only guides which we can reasonably follow in inferences of this nature - both the effect and cause must bear a similarity and resemblance to other effects and causes which ...
... cause . If experience and observation and analogy be indeed the only guides which we can reasonably follow in inferences of this nature - both the effect and cause must bear a similarity and resemblance to other effects and causes which ...
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... cause fall into that arrangement . The equal possibility of both these suppositions is allowed . " Again— “ If the ... cause as much , as does a material world or uni- verse of objects ; and if similar in its arrangement must require a ...
... cause fall into that arrangement . The equal possibility of both these suppositions is allowed . " Again— “ If the ... cause as much , as does a material world or uni- verse of objects ; and if similar in its arrangement must require a ...
Contents
PRELIMINARY VIEWS | 17 |
Of the Metaphysics which have been resorted | 99 |
MR HUMES OBJECTION TO THE A POSTERIORI | 121 |
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