The Works of Thomas Chalmers, Volume 1W. Collins, 1836 |
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Page 58
... position , that God is not ; but he affirms the lack of evidence for the position , that God is . Judging from the tendency and effect of his arguments , an atheist does not appear posi- tively to refuse that a God may be — but 58 ON ...
... position , that God is not ; but he affirms the lack of evidence for the position , that God is . Judging from the tendency and effect of his arguments , an atheist does not appear posi- tively to refuse that a God may be — but 58 ON ...
Page 59
... position , at the outset of this great question . It is this . We cannot , without a glaring contraven- tion to all the principles of the experimental philo- sophy , recede to a further distance from the doctrine of a God , than to the ...
... position , at the outset of this great question . It is this . We cannot , without a glaring contraven- tion to all the principles of the experimental philo- sophy , recede to a further distance from the doctrine of a God , than to the ...
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... position - and more especially , if that position be wholly insignificant . It is thus that in the management of what may be called intellectual tactics , it is good to keep by the strong points of an argument , and to abstain by all ...
... position - and more especially , if that position be wholly insignificant . It is thus that in the management of what may be called intellectual tactics , it is good to keep by the strong points of an argument , and to abstain by all ...
Contents
PRELIMINARY VIEWS | 17 |
Of the Metaphysics which have been resorted | 99 |
MR HUMES OBJECTION TO THE A POSTERIORI | 121 |
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