| George Ide Chace - 1886 - 298 pages
...advice of the great English skeptic quoted by the same authority with fullest indorsement, who says, " If we take in hand any volume of divinity or school...Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matters of fact or existence ? No. Commit it then to the flames ; for it contains nothing but sophistry... | |
| Thomas Henry Huxley - 1886 - 354 pages
...take in hnnd uny volume of divinily, or school metaphysics, for instance, let us usk, Does it cuntain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number?...existence? No. Commit it then to the flames ; for it can cuntain nothing but sophistry and •illusion." * Permit me to enforee this most wise advice. Why trouble... | |
| Thomas Henry Huxley - 1886 - 350 pages
..." If we lake in hand any volume of divinily, or school metaphysics, for instance, lot us tisk. Docs it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity...fact and existence ? No. Commit it then to the flames ; lor it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion." * Permit me to enforce this most wise advice.... | |
| Thomas Henry Huxley - 1888 - 424 pages
...metaphysics, for instance, let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number i No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning...fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames j lor it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion." 1 Permit me to enforce this most wise advice.... | |
| James Thompson Bixby - 1889 - 252 pages
...advice, as he calls it, of Hume : " If we take in hand any volume of divinity or school metaphysic for instance, let us ask, Does it contain any abstract...Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matters of fact and existence ? No. Commit it, then, to the flames, for it can contain nothing but... | |
| Edward Caird - 1889 - 688 pages
...concerning quantity or number ? No. Does it contain any cKperimental reasoning concerning matter of faet and existence ? No. Commit it then to the flames :...it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion." Hume's assertion, that Mathematics deals with relations of Kan'1.8 unH;" standmg of ideas, and that... | |
| Alexander Campbell Fraser - 1890 - 324 pages
..." If we take in hand any volume of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance, let us ask, 'Docs it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity...contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter or fact or existence ? ' No. ' Commit it then to the flames ; for it can contain nothing but sophistry... | |
| Josiah Royce - 1892 - 570 pages
...we run through libraries, persuaded of these principles, what havoc must we make ? If we take in our hand any volume of divinity or school metaphysics,...it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion." VL Hume represents thus, indeed, the extreme of purely philosophical skepticism in the eighteenth century.... | |
| Josiah Royce - 1892 - 550 pages
...we run through libraries, persuaded of these principles, what havoc must we make ? If we take in our hand any volume of divinity or school metaphysics,...abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number ? No. Docs it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence ? No. Commit it... | |
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