An Essay Towards the Theory of the Ideal Or Intelligible World. Design'd for Two Parts: The First Considering it Absolutely in it Self, and the Second in Relation to Human Understanding ...S. Manship, 1704 |
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... Seems a Confequence drawn from one only Propofition . But , ' tis plain , that this is an imperfect Argument , unless more is understood than is here expreffed : And that to make it perfect and conclufive , it must be reduced to this or ...
... Seems a Confequence drawn from one only Propofition . But , ' tis plain , that this is an imperfect Argument , unless more is understood than is here expreffed : And that to make it perfect and conclufive , it must be reduced to this or ...
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... seems not very just or fair . But enough of this Matter , unless I had occafion to treat more profeffedly of it . There is a Paffage in the former Part , which tho otherwife clear enough in it felf , may yet perhaps re- quire a little ...
... seems not very just or fair . But enough of this Matter , unless I had occafion to treat more profeffedly of it . There is a Paffage in the former Part , which tho otherwife clear enough in it felf , may yet perhaps re- quire a little ...
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... seems by the very Surprize of it ( as all Ar- guments of that fort do ) to be fallacious . But we fhall be the better able to judge of it if we reduce it to Form , and then it will stand in this Posture , If an Extended Being be real ...
... seems by the very Surprize of it ( as all Ar- guments of that fort do ) to be fallacious . But we fhall be the better able to judge of it if we reduce it to Form , and then it will stand in this Posture , If an Extended Being be real ...
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... seems in the first place very clear that I cannot only ab- ftract a Thinking Being from an Extended Be- ing , or Matter , but that I can conceive a Think- ing Being to be , even tho ' I fhould fuppofe Mat- ter not to be , and that ...
... seems in the first place very clear that I cannot only ab- ftract a Thinking Being from an Extended Be- ing , or Matter , but that I can conceive a Think- ing Being to be , even tho ' I fhould fuppofe Mat- ter not to be , and that ...
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... seems plain that the Idea whereby one of these is produceable , is not the Idea where- by the other is produceable , fince if it were , then the Production of the one would involve alfo the Production of the other , and fo they could ...
... seems plain that the Idea whereby one of these is produceable , is not the Idea where- by the other is produceable , fince if it were , then the Production of the one would involve alfo the Production of the other , and fo they could ...
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