 In our opinion, the mind can conceive, and consequently can know, only the limited, and the conditionally limited. The unconditionally unlimited, or the Infinite, the unconditionally limited, or the Absolute, cannot positively be construed to the mind...  First Principles of a New System of Philosophy - Page 74by Herbert Spencer - 1864 - 508 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Maurice Cross - 1835 - 920 pages
...Kant ; the third by Schelling; and the last by our author. 1. In our opinion the mind can conceive, and consequently can know, only the limited, and the...or the absolute, cannot positively be construed to Ihe mind; they can be conceived at all only by a thinking away, or abstraction of those very conditions... | |
 | Maurice Cross - 1835 - 520 pages
...the last by our author. 1. In our opinion the mind can conceive, and* consequently can know, only Ihe limited, and the conditionally limited. The unconditionally...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 thought itself... | |
 | 1835 - 916 pages
...Kant; the third by Schelling; and the last by our author. 1. In our opinion the mind can conceive, and consequently can know, only the limited, and the conditionally limited. The unconditionally unlimiled, or the infinite, the unconditionally limited, or the absolute, cannot positively be construed... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1858 - 956 pages
...positive, from a power, or negative, from an impotence. According to him, " the mind can conceive, and consequently can know, only the limited, and the...limited. The unconditionally unlimited, or the Infinite* and the unconditionally limited, or the Absolute* cannot be positively construed to the mind ; they... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1845 - 560 pages
...; the third by Schelling ; and the last by our author. " 1. In our opinion, the mind can conceive, and consequently can know, only the limited, and the...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 thought itself... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1851 - 412 pages
...; the third by Schelling - and the last by our author. " 1. In our opinion, the mind can conceive, and consequently can know, only the limited and the...infinite, the unconditionally limited, or the absolute t cannot positively be construed to the mind ; they can be conceived at all only by a thinking away,... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1852 - 848 pages
...Kant ; the third by Schelling ; and the last by our author. 1. In our opinion, the mind can conceive, and consequently can know, only the limited, and the...those very conditions under which thought itself is realised ; consequently, the noaon of the Unconditioned is only negative,- — negative of the conceivable... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1853 - 828 pages
...Kant; the third by Schelling;' and the last by our author. 1. In our opinion, the mind can conceive, and, consequently, can know, only the limited, and...Infinite, the unconditionally limited, or the Absolute, can not positively be construed to the mind ; they can be conceived, only by a thinking away from,... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1853 - 832 pages
...Kant; the third by Schelling;' and the last by our author. 1. In our opinion, the mind can conceive, and, consequently, can know, only the limited, and...Infinite, the unconditionally limited, or the Absolute, can not positively be construed to the mind ; they can be conceived, only by a thinking away from,... | |
 | Henry Calderwood - 1854 - 386 pages
...indicates the mental process by which the negative notion is realized. He says that a negative notion " can be conceived only by a thinking away from, or abstraction of, those conditions under which thought itself is realized." Now to " conceive " the Infinite, to " think away,"... | |
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