...of Reason, will accept it as a reasonable service for a man to confound day and night, and to take a thing TO BE and NOT TO BE, at the same time. Yet that must he do, who subscribes hisassent tothe commentary of Bishop Porteus, in the passage referred...

...for why is it a self-contradiction, or an impossibility ? " It is impossible," said M. Leibnitz, " for a thing to be and not to be at the same time.1' This impossibility I admit ; because, to assert the contrary, would imply a self-contradiction...

...he cannot work contradictions ; that he cannot cause two and two to be five ; that he cannot cause a thing to be, and not to be, at the same time ; but that he can cause a thing to be at one time, and not to be at another, involves no absurdity....

...absolutely first in all hurnan knowledge. Some have considered as such the position, It is impossible for a thing to be and not to be at the same time ; others, Whatever is, is ; others, Every thing either is or is not ; others, the principle of the...

...are perfect; or to say that all men are mortal, and yet that some men are not mortal, is to assert a thing to be and not to be at the same time. 4. And now we may affirm that, in all syllogisms of the first figure, if the premises are true, the...

...absolutely first in all human knowledge. Some have considered as such the position, // is impossible far a thing to be and not to be at the same time ; others, Whatever is, is ; others, Everything either is or is not ; others, the principle of the sufficient...

...idea that a rational miud can form of the power of God himself, can we conceive that he could make a thing to be and not to be, at the same time ; or so operate on the past, as to cause that to have been which really had not been. That fluid, therefore,...

...contradictory, or abmrd, or what is, from the very nature of the case, imponible. For example; he cannot cause a thing to be and not to be, at the same time, and in the same respect. Or, he cannot cause a part of a thing to be greater than the whole of it....

...nothing is in itself impossible which does not imply a contradiction: and though it be a contradiction tablisk you in every good UWÄ'," 2 These, ii. 16 tin re is surely no contradiction in conceiving an imperfect being which before was not, afterward...

...is no object of omnipotency. As for instance, to make that not to be; that is, while it is, to make a thing to be and not to be at the same time ; or to make a thing that hath been, not to have been. This implies a contradiction, this is naturally...