| John Kitto - 1866 - 524 pages
...following proposition :— " We can be ignorant only of what can possibly be known; in other words, there can be an ignorance only of that of which there can be a knowledge." m ™ Irntitutes. Theory of Ignorance, Proposition iii. In his explanation of this proposition, he... | |
| JAMES F. FERRIER - 1854 - 580 pages
...most efficient performers in the work. If the reader has got well in hand these two truths—first. that there can be a knowledge of things only with...an ignorance only of that of which there can be a knowledge—he will find himself in possession of a lever powerful enough to break open the innermost... | |
| James Frederick Ferrier - 1854 - 514 pages
...remediable (by Prop. II.) Therefore, we can be ignorant only of what can possibly be known ; in other words, there can be an ignorance only of that of which there can be a knowledge. OBSERVATIONS AND EXPLANATIONS. 1. This is the most important proposition in the agnoiology = indeed,... | |
| 1855 - 946 pages
...the Professor, somewhat magniloquently, ' the reader has got well in hand these two truths— -first, that there can be a knowledge of things only with...— they lay open the universe from stem, to stern' (p. 405). This is a magnificient boast ; and if it were true, Mr. Ferrier would certainly have refuted... | |
| Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1855 - 572 pages
...heels of these two : — " We can be ignorant only of what can possibly be known ; in other words, there can be an ignorance only of that of which there can be a knowledge. " DEMONSTRATION. " If we could be ignorant of what could not possibly be known by any intelligence,... | |
| James Frederick Ferrier - 1856 - 582 pages
...most efficient performers in the work. If the reader has got well in hand these two truths — -first, that there can be a knowledge of things only with...lever powerful enough » to break open the innermost secresies of nature. These two instruments cut deep and far — they lay open the universe from stem... | |
| William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1873 - 552 pages
...nescience properly expresses that which is beyond the possibility of knowledge. In truth, there can really be an ignorance only of that of which there can be a knowledge. ' The ignorance,' says Ferrier, ' which is a defect, must not be confounded with the nescience of the... | |
| 1866 - 526 pages
...following proposition : — " We can be ignorant only of what can possibly be known ; in other words, there can be an ignorance only of that of which there can be a knowledge."™ ™ Imtitutei. Theory of Ignorance, Proposition iii. In his explanation of this proposition, he remarks... | |
| 1867 - 972 pages
...possibly remediable." 3. " We can be ignorant only of what can possibly be known ; in other words, there can be an ignorance only of that of which there can be a knowledge." 4. " We cannot be ignorant of any kind of objects without a subject ¡ in Other words, there can be... | |
| John R. Leifchild - 1872 - 578 pages
...nescience, properly expresses that which is beyond the possibility of knowledge. In truth there can really be an ignorance only of that of which there can be a knowledge. " The ignorance," says Ferrier, " which is a defect, must not be confounded with a nescience of the... | |
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