The Works of Thomas Chalmers, Volume 1W. Collins, 1836 |
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Page 101
... things of substantive and actual Nature . He confounds we think a logical with an actual impossibility . Insomuch that if the conception of the non - existence of any actual thing involve in it no logical impossibility , then that thing ...
... things of substantive and actual Nature . He confounds we think a logical with an actual impossibility . Insomuch that if the conception of the non - existence of any actual thing involve in it no logical impossibility , then that thing ...
Page 104
... things may be dis- covered thus , that in the terms of that proposition which affirmed their non - existence there would be the like contradiction . And therefore when the opposite of any existent thing can be imagined without such ...
... things may be dis- covered thus , that in the terms of that proposition which affirmed their non - existence there would be the like contradiction . And therefore when the opposite of any existent thing can be imagined without such ...
Page 144
... things apart from that one thing of form and arrangement , which indicates the work and contrivance of an artist . Were the things with their existing properties presented before me in a confused mass , the inference of a designing ...
... things apart from that one thing of form and arrangement , which indicates the work and contrivance of an artist . Were the things with their existing properties presented before me in a confused mass , the inference of a designing ...
Contents
PRELIMINARY VIEWS | 17 |
Of the Metaphysics which have been resorted | 99 |
MR HUMES OBJECTION TO THE A POSTERIORI | 121 |
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