 | Maurice Cross - 1835 - 920 sivua
...knowledge and of positive thought — thought necessarily supposes conditions; to think is therefore to condition, and conditional limitation is the fundamental law of the possibility of thought. How, * It is proper to observe, that though wo are of opinion that the tern» Infinite and Absolute.... | |
 | 1861 - 716 sivua
...only possible object of knowledge and of positive thought, thought necessarily supposes conditions. To think is to condition / and conditional limitation...the fundamental law of the possibility of thought. . . . The conditioned is the mean between two extremes — two inconditionates, exclusive of each other,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1845 - 560 sivua
...knowledge and of positive thought — thought necessarily supposes conditions; to think is therefore to condition, and conditional limitation is the fundamental law of the possibility of thought. How, indeed, it could ever be doubted that thought is only of the conditioned, may well be deemed a... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1852 - 848 sivua
...only possible object of knowledge and of positive thought — thought necessarily supposes conditions. To think is to condition ; and conditional limitation...atmosphere in which he floats, and by which alone ho may be supported ; so the mind cannot transcend that sphere of limitation, within and through which... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1853 - 536 sivua
...absolute and relative knowledge. And with consummate tact Sir William shows, that as the eagle cannot out-soar the atmosphere in which he floats, and by...exclusively the possibility of thought is realised. Thought, he argues, is only of the conditioned, because to think is to condition: conditional limitation is... | |
 | 1853 - 570 sivua
...absolute and relative knowledge. And with consummate tact Sir William shows, that as the eagle cannot out-soar the atmosphere in which he floats, and by...exclusively the possibility of thought is realised. Thought, he argues, is only of the conditioned, because to think is to cojidition : conditional limitation is... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1853 - 606 sivua
...absolute and relative knowledge. And with consummate tact Sir William shows, that as the eagle cannot realized. Thought, he argues, is only of the conditioned, because to think is to condition : conditional... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1853 - 828 sivua
...only possible object of knowledge and of positive thought — thought necessarily supposes conditions. To think is to condition; and conditional limitation...fundamental law of the possibility of thought. For, as the grayhound can not outstrip his shadow, nor (by a more appropriate simile) the eagle outsoar the atmosphere... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1853 - 832 sivua
...only possible object of knowledge and of positive thought — thought necessarily supposes conditions. To think is to condition; and conditional limitation...fundamental law of the possibility of thought. For, as the grayhound can not outstrip his shadow, nor (by a more appropriate simile) the eagle outsoar the atmosphere... | |
 | Joseph Jones - 1853 - 208 sivua
...diametrically opposed to, and contradictory of, the Infinite. 6. Thought necessarily supposes conditions. To think is to condition ; and conditional limitation...the fundamental law of the possibility of thought. The mind cannot transcend that sphere of limitation, within and through which exclusively the possibility... | |
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To think is to condition ; and conditional limitation is the fundamental law of the possibility of thought. For, as the greyhound cannot outstrip his shadow, nor (by a more appropriate simile) the eagle outsoar the atmosphere in which he floats, and by... 
