 | Herbert Spencer - 1882 - 652 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, aa the greyhound cannot outstrip his shadow, nor (by a more appropriate simile) the eagle outsoar the... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1886 - 662 páginas
...appropriate simile) the eagle outsoar the atmosphere in which he floats, and by which alone he may be supported ; so the mind cannot transcend that sphere...through which exclusively the possibility of thought ia realized. Thought is only of the conditioned ; because, as we have said, to think is simply to condition.... | |
 | 1887 - 478 páginas
...other words, the Infinite and the Absolute, properly so called, are thus equally inconceivable to us. ' As the conditionally limited (which we may briefly...the fundamental law of the possibility of thought. VOL. IX. C For, as the greyhound cannot outstrip his shadow, nor (by a more appropriate simile) the... | |
 | 1887 - 472 páginas
...equally inconceivable to us. 'As the conditionally limited (which we may briefly call the Conditioned) ia thus the only possible object of knowledge and of...the fundamental law of the possibility of thought. VOL. IX. C For, as the greyhound cannot outstrip his shadow, nor (by a more appropriate simile) the... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1889 - 700 páginas
...thus the only possible object of " knowledge and of positive thought,—thought neces" sarilysupposes condition. To think is to condition; and " conditional..." is realised. Thought is only of the conditioned; be" cause, as we have said, to think is simply to condition. " The Absolute is conceived merely by... | |
 | Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - 1892 - 428 páginas
...knowledge being relative and limited to the phenomenal. "As the greyhound cannot outstrip his shadow, nor the eagle outsoar the 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 exclusively... | |
 | Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - 1892 - 394 páginas
...knowledge being relative and limited to the phenomenal. " As the greyhound cannot outstrip his shadow, nor the eagle outsoar the 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 exclusively... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1897 - 714 páginas
...only possible object of knowledge and of positive thought — thought necessarily supposes conditions. To think is to condition; and conditional limitation...simile) the eagle outsoar the atmosphere in which he floati, and by which alone he may be supported ; so the mind cannot transcend that sphere of limitation,... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1910 - 280 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... | |
 | 1830 - 594 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... | |
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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... 
