 | 1798 - 542 pages
...the existence of matter, that is, of solidity, impenetrability, and extended figure ( to deny which would be lunacy ) but, in correcting the popular notion...essence independent of mental perception, that existence arid perceptibility are convertible terms, that external appearances and sensations are illusory, and... | |
 | Asiatic Society of Bengal - 1807 - 504 pages
...denying the existence of matter, that is of solidity, impenetrability, and extended figure (to deny which would be lunacy) but, in correcting the popular notion...the divine energy, which alone sustains them, were sufpended but for a moment : an opinion, which Epicharmus and Plato seem to have adopted, and which... | |
 | Edward Scott Waring - 1807 - 356 pages
...the existence of matter; that is of solidity, impenetrability, and extended figure; (to deny which would be lunacy) but in correcting the popular notion...external appearances and sensations are illusory, • See Enfiold's History of Philosophy, vol. ii. p. 222, 488. Sir William Jones, vol. ip 10 i, and... | |
 | Sir William Jones - 1807 - 480 pages
...the exiftence of matter, that is, of folidity, impenetrability, and extended figure (to deny which would be lunacy), but, in correcting the popular notion of it, and in contending, that it has no eflence independent of mental perception, that exiftence and perceptibility are convertible terms,... | |
 | John Shore Baron Teignmouth - 1807 - 488 pages
...the exiftence of matter, that is, of folidity, impenetrability, and extended figure (to deny which would be lunacy), but, in correcting the popular notion of it, and in contending, that it has no eflence independent of mental perception, that exiftence and perceptibility are convertible terms,... | |
 | Edward Scott Waring - 1807 - 358 pages
...the existence of matter; that is of solidity, impenetrability, and extended figure; (to deny which would be lunacy) but in correcting the popular notion of it, and in contending that jt has no essence independent of mental perception : that existence and perceptibility are convertible... | |
 | John William Cunningham - 1808 - 224 pages
...Vyasa himself, it teaches that the material world exists only in the perceptions of men ; in short, that " existence and perceptibility are convertible...sustains them, were suspended but for a moment*." Now although we should admit, with the distinguished writer from whom this statement is Sir William... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1814 - 560 pages
...existence of mailer, that is, of solidity, impenclrability, and extended figure, (to deny which mould be lunacy,') but in correcting the popular notion...external appearances and sensations are illusory, and mould vanish into nothing, if the divine energy, mhich alone sustains them, were suspended but fora... | |
 | Lady Maria Callcott - 1814 - 428 pages
...independent on mental perception, and consequently that existence and perceptibility are controvertible terms. That external appearances and sensations are...alone sustains them were suspended but for a moment. Their notions concerning the human soul approach nearly to the Pantheism of some other philosophical... | |
 | Lady Maria Callcott - 1814 - 432 pages
...independent on mental perception, and consequently that existence and perceptibility are controvertible terms. That external appearances and sensations are...alone sustains them were suspended but for a moment. Their notions concerning the human soul approach nearly to the Pantheism of some other philosophical... | |
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The fundamental tenet of the Vedanti school, to which, in a more modern age, the incomparable Sancara was a firm and illustrious adherent, consisted not in denying the existence of matter; that is of solidity, impenetrability, and extended figure; (to... 
