How then can it be a legitimate conclusion from the argument, that our con-. sciousncss of it is negative ? An argument, the very construction of which assigns to a certain term a certain meaning, but which ends in showing that this term has no such meaning,... First Principles of a New System of Philosophy - Page 88by Herbert Spencer - 1864 - 508 pagesFull view - About this book
| New Church gen. confer - 616 pages
...not negative. How then can it be a legitimate conclusion from the argument, that our consciousness of it is negative ? An argument, the very construction...term a certain meaning, but which ends in showing i " First Principles," 3rd edition. that this term has no such meaning, is simply an elaborate suicide.... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1862 - 528 pages
...not negative. How then can it be a legitimate conclusion from the argument, that our consciousness of it is negative ? An argument, the very construction...but which ends in showing that this term has no such mean' ing, is simply an elaborate suicide. Clearly, then, _ the very demonstration that a definite... | |
| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1863 - 878 pages
...not negative. How then can it be a legitimate conclusion from the argument, that our consciousness of it is negative ? An argument, the very construction...meaning, but which ends in showing that this term has no snch meaning, is simply an elaborate suicide. Clearly, then, the very demonstration that a dffinitc... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1865 - 666 pages
...not negative. How then can it be a legitimate conclusion from the argument, that our consciousness of it is negative? An argument, the very construction...in showing that this term has no such meaning, is pimply an elaborate suicide." But really the argument of which Mr. Spencer has proved his total misapprehension... | |
| Jesse Henry Jones - 1865 - 236 pages
...After carrying on this train of argument a little further, he reaches this just and decisive result. " Clearly, then, the very demonstration that a definite...unavoidably presupposes an indefinite consciousness of it." Carrying the argument further, he says : " Perhaps the best way of showing that, by the necessary conditions... | |
| Jesse Henry Jones - 1865 - 252 pages
...After carrying on this train of argument a little further, he reaches this just and decisive result. " Clearly, then, the very demonstration that a definite...unavoidably presupposes an indefinite consciousness of it." Carrying the argument further, he says : " Perhaps the best way of showing that, by the necessary conditions... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1870 - 600 pages
...not negative. How then can it be a legitimate conclusion from the argument, that our consciousness of it is negative ? An argument, the very construction...demonstration that a definite consciousness of the Absolute in impossible to vis, unavoidably presupposes an indefinite consciousness of it. Perhaps the best way... | |
| B. F. Cocker - 1870 - 546 pages
...not negative. How, then, can it be a legitimate conclusion from the argument that our consciousness of it is negative ? An argument, the very construction...meaning, but which ends in showing that this term has no meaning, is simply an elaborate suicide. Clearly, then, the very demonstration that a definite consciousness... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1870 - 588 pages
...not negative. How then can it be a legitimate conclusion from the argument, that our consciousness of it is negative ? An argument, the very construction...a certain meaning, but which ends in showing that thifl term has no such meaning, is simply an elaborate suicide. Clearly, then, the very demonstration... | |
| John R. Leifchild - 1872 - 578 pages
...not negative. How then can it be a legitimate conclusion from the argument, that our consciousness of it is negative ? An argument the very construction of which assigns to a term a certain meaning, but which ends in showing that this term has no such meaning, is simply an... | |
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