 | 1824 - 826 pages
...confidently that he can do, what may involve the same contradiction, as to affirm that he can cause a thing to be and not to be at the same time ? Is God honoured by the assertions of mere ignorance, and by our affirming that to be true of him,... | |
 | John Pridham - 1826 - 438 pages
...act or produce any other thing similar or dissimilar to itself: unless it can be supposed possible for a thing to be, and not to be, at the same time; which is a palpable absurdity. It follows therefore, from these premises, that there is an eternal efficient;... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1826 - 536 pages
...for why is it a self-contradiction, or an impossibility ? " It is impossible," said M. Leibnitz, " for a thing to be and not to be at the same time." This impossibility I admit ; because, to assert the contrary, would imply a self-contradiction absolute... | |
 | John Paul - 1828 - 338 pages
...reconciled, because I believe they are irreconcileable. If any man is able to prove that it is possible for a thing to be and not to be at the same time — if he can prove that it is possible to know a thing, and at the same time not to know it, then... | |
 | 1828 - 844 pages
...of Reason, will accept it as a reasonable service for a man to confound day and night, and to take a thing TO BE and NOT TO BE, at the same time. Yet that must he do, who subscribes hisassent tothe commentary of Bishop Porteus, in the passage referred... | |
 | Samuel Whelpley - 1828 - 526 pages
...he cannot work contradictions ; that he cannot cause two and two to be five ; that he cannot cause a thing to be, and not to be, at the same time ; but that he can cause a thing to be at one time, and not to be at another, involves no absurdity.... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1828 - 540 pages
...for why is it a self-contradiction, or an impossibility ? " It is impossible," said M. Leibnitz, " for a thing to be and not to be at the same time.1' This impossibility I admit ; because, to assert the contrary, would imply a self-contradiction... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1828 - 576 pages
...essence remains without the essence, that is without itself : ' — The other, that ' this doctrine makes a thing to be and not to be, at the same time :' I shall use them both but promiscuously, because they are reducible to one. 11. The doctrine of... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - 1829 - 644 pages
...be regarded as absolutely first in all hurnan knowledge. Some have considered as such the position, It is impossible for a thing to be and not to be at the same time ; others, Whatever is, is ; others, Every thing either is or is not ; others, the principle of the... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - 1879 - 634 pages
...regarded as absolutely first in all human knowledge. Some have considered as such the position, ß is impossible for a thing to be and not to be at the same time ; others, Whatever is, is ; others, Every thing; either is or it not ; others, the principle of the... | |
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Men suffer all their life long under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time. 
