...can do all things which are in their nature possible. Contradictions are impossibilities. To cause a thing to be, and not to be, at the same time, is an impossibility. To make a circle square, and a square round; to make happiness misery, and misery...

...cannot be any contradiction in His government. He cannot make it light and dark in the same place, or a thing to be and not to be at the same time. A comparison is sometimes jnade between the union of our bodies and 'spirits, and two natures in Christ....

...has been inadvertently and quite unnecessarily mixed up with it. It is this : — " It is impossible for a thing to be and not to be at the same time." Not to mention the superfluousness of the addition of the word impossible to indicate the apodeictic...

...of continuity is exactly preserved. The two great principles of Leibnitz were, that it is impossible for a thing to be, and not to be, at the same time; and that nothing is without a sufficient reason why it should be so, rather than otherwise. Descartes...

...has been inadvertently and quite unnecessarily mixed up with it. It is this : — " It is impossible for a thing to be and not to be at the same time." Not to mention the superfluousness of the addition of the word impossible to indicate the apodeictic...

...more dishonor on his perfections, than would be done by the position that Omnipotence can not cause a thing to be and not to be at the same time ; for according to the foregoing view, I . Moral beings are such that by their very natures they can...

...taken, we may say further that his doctrine directly contradicts the old axiom, " it is impossible for a thing to be and not to be at the same time." For suppose S is not P and P not taken as a whole, the sphere of P as of any term is determined by...

...there taken, we may say further that his doctrine directly contradicts the old axiom, "it is impossible for a thing to be and not to be at the same time." For suppose S is not P and P not taken as a whole, the sphere of P as of any term is determined by...

...on the evidences of the truth of Christianity. It is an incontrovertible axiom that it is impossible for a thing to be and not to be at the same time. JSTo man, therefore, who has concluded that the balance of evidence is so far in favour of Christ as...

...sense. Descartes' famous principle, / think, therefore lam; that of contradiction, it is impossible for a thing to be and not to be at the same time; and what is called the principle of the Cartesians, whatever is contained in the clear and distinct...