 | Victor Cousin - 1834 - 398 pages
...it, he goes on to state that the possible opinions on this subject " may be reduced to four : — 1. The unconditioned is incognizable (^ and inconceivable...notion being only negative of the conditioned, which last can alone be positively known or conceived. 2. It is \d not an object of knowledge ; but its notion,... | |
 | 1861 - 716 pages
...author distinguishes at the present day four prominent theories, which he classifies as follows : 1. The unconditioned is incognizable and inconceivable;...notion being only negative of the conditioned, which last can alone be positively known or conceived. 2. It is not an object of knowledge, but its notion,... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1858 - 956 pages
...and reflection, under relation, difference, and plurality. — 4th. According toSi^Ym. Hamilton, it is incognizable and inconceivable; its notion being only negative of the conditioned, which last can alone be positively known or conceived. — 5th. According to Dr. Hickok, — who reproduces... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1845 - 560 pages
...unconditioned as an immediate object of knowledge and thought." "These opinions may be reduced to four: — 1. The unconditioned is incognizable and inconceivable...notion being only negative of the conditioned, which last can alone be positively known or conceived. 2. It is not an object of knowledge ; but its notion,... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1853 - 828 pages
...as an immediate object of knowledge and of thought. These opinions may be reduced to four. — 1°, The Unconditioned is incognizable and inconceivable...notion being only negative of the conditioned, which last can alone be positively known or conceived. — 2°, It is not an object of knowledge ; but its... | |
 | John Williams - 1854 - 234 pages
...consideration of the language employed, and the ideas which it is intended to convey. Sir William writes, "the unconditioned is incognizable and inconceivable,...notion being only negative of the conditioned, which can alone be positively known or conceived. " Thus the mind can conceive, and consequently can know,... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - 1859 - 516 pages
...which may be entertained respecting the Unconditioned as an object of knowledge or thought:—" 1°, The Un"conditioned is incognizable and inconceivable;...notion being only negative of the conditioned, which " last can alone be positively known or conceived.— " 2°, It is not an object of knowledge; but... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - 1859 - 524 pages
...nearly the whole body of modern German " speculation. His great principle, that ' the Un" ' conditioned is incognizable and inconceivable, its " ' notion being only negative of the Conditioned, " ' which last can alone be positively known or con" ' ceived,' has suggested the principal part of the HAMILTON... | |
 | John Kitto - 1860 - 502 pages
...Hamilton, and which contains in itself a refutation of the whole school of German sophists, to wit : " the unconditioned is incognizable and inconceivable...notion being only negative of the conditioned, which last can alone be but partially known or conceived." We have said that these German philosophers are... | |
 | 1860 - 526 pages
...container to embrace and hold within itself an infinite contained object. Hear Sir William's doctrine : " The unconditioned is incognizable and inconceivable,...notion being only negative of the conditioned, which last can alone be positively known or conceived. ... In our opinion the mind can conceive and consequently... | |
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It is not an object of knowledge ; but its notion, as a regulative principle of the mind itself, is more than a mere negation of the conditioned. 
