 | Eleazar Lord - 1859 - 168 páginas
...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 mind can not transcend that sphere of limitation, within and through which exclusively the... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1860 - 548 páginas
...only possible object of knowledge and of positive thought — thought necessarily supposes conditions. To think is to condition ; and conditional limitation...eagle out-soar the atmosphere in which he floats, and bj which alone he may be supported ; so the mind cannot transcend that sphere of limitation, within... | |
 | John Frederick Denison Maurice - 1860 - 332 páginas
...inclined to vote a man a lunatic who supposed that " the greyhound could outstrip its own shadow, or " the eagle outsoar the atmosphere in which he floats, " and by which alone he can be supported" (Discussions, p. 14). All of us were ready to say with him, " How " indeed it could... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1861 - 626 páginas
...only possible object of knowledge and of positive thought — thought necessarily supposes conditions. To think is to condition ; and conditional limitation...through which exclusively the possibility of thought is realized. Thought is only of the Conditioned; because, as we have said, to think is simply to condition.... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1861 - 584 páginas
...only possible object of knowledge and of positive thought— thought necessarily supposes conditions. To think is to condition; and conditional limitation...through which exclusively the possibility of thought is realized. Thought is only of the Conditioned; because, as we have said, to think is simply to condition.... | |
 | 1861 - 824 páginas
...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 he may be supported ; so the mind cannot transcend that sphere of limitation, within and through which... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1861 - 816 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1861 - 716 páginas
...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,... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1861 - 420 páginas
...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 - 1862 - 584 páginas
...only possible object of knowledge and of positive thought — thought necessarily supposes conditions. To think is to condition ; and conditional limitation...through which exclusively the possibility of thought is realized. Thought is only of the Conditioned ; because, as we have said, to think is simply to condition.... | |
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As the conditionally limited (which we may briefly call the conditioned) is thus the only possible object of knowledge and of positive thought — thought necessarily supposes conditions. To think is to condition ; and conditional limitation is the fundamental... 
