 Observe in the first place, that every one of the arguments by which the relativity of our knowledge is demonstrated, distinctly postulates the positive existence of something be/yond the relative. To say that wo cannot know the Absolute, is, by implication,...  First Principles - Página 88por Herbert Spencer - 1862 - 503 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | New Church gen. confer - 616 páginas
...affirm that there is [self-existence]. In the very denial of our power to learn what [self-existence] is, there lies hidden the assumption that it is ; and the making of this assumption proves that [self-existence] has been present to the mind not as o nothing but as a something. . . . Clearly, then,... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1865 - 528 páginas
...demonstrated, distinctly postulates the positive existence of something beyond the relative. To say that we cannot know the Absolute, is, by implication, to affirm...the Absolute is, there lies hidden the assumption tJiat it is ; and the making of this assumption proves that the Absolute has Tbeen present to the mind,... | |
 | 1869 - 280 páginas
...demonstrated distinctly postulates the positive existence of something beyond the relative. To say that we cannot know the Absolute is, by implication, to affirm...is an Absolute. In the very denial of our power to know what the Absolute is, there lies hidden the assumption that it is ; and the making of the assumption... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1869 - 752 páginas
...it is because, " To say that we cannot know the Absolute is, by implicit!»:, these. (o nffinn (hat there is an Absolute. In the very denial of our power to know what tbAbsolutc Ь, there Нов hidden the assumption that it is, etc. Besides tbut definite... | |
 | B. F. Cocker - 1870 - 546 páginas
...of something beyond the relative. To say we can not know the Absolute is, by implication, to affirm there is an Absolute. In the very denial of our power to learn -i'hat the Absolute is, there lies hidden the assumption that it is ; and the making of this assumption... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1871 - 604 páginas
...exists, but we cannot know what it is. He contends that we can know that it is, because, "To say that we cannot know the Absolute is, by implication, to affirm...is an Absolute. In the very denial of our power to know what the Absolute is, there lies hidden the assumption that it is, etc. Besides that definite... | |
 | 1871 - 636 páginas
...demonstrated distinctly postulates the positive existence of something beyond the relative. To say that we cannot know the Absolute is, by implication, to affirm...is an Absolute. In the very denial of our power to know what the Absolute is, there lies hidden the assumption that it is ; and the making of the assumption... | |
 | B. F. Cocker - 1872 - 548 páginas
...of something beyond the relative. To say we can not know the Absolute is, by implication, to affirm there is an Absolute. In the very denial of our power...the Absolute has been present to the mind, not as nothing, but as something. And so with every step in the reasoning by which the doctrine is pphcld,... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1872 - 602 páginas
...demonstrated, distinctly postulates the positive existence of something beyond the relative. To say that we cannot know the Absolute, is, by implication, to affirm...Absolute is, there lies hidden the assumption that it is; _.and the makTng~"(5f~" this assumption proves that the Absolute has been present to the mind, not... | |
 | 1873 - 826 páginas
...say that it is an indeterminate something, is to say that it is not a mere negation. " To say that we cannot know the Absolute, is by implication to affirm...Absolute. In the very denial of our power to learn wiiat the Absolute is, there lies hidden the assumption that it is ; and the making of this assumption... | |
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