 | 1873 - 826 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 camiot transcend the sphere of limitation, within and through which exclusively... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1873 - 602 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 (he greyhound cannot outstrip his shadow, nor (by a more appropriate simile) the eagle outsoar the... | |
 | 1873 - 840 páginas
...fundamental law of the possibility of thought. For, as the greyhound cannot outstrip his shadow, nor tho 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... | |
 | 1873 - 824 páginas
...law of the possibility of thonght. For, as the greyhound cannot outstrip his shadow, nor the eaglo 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... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1874 - 342 páginas
...and every other part of the argumentation until we have the whole before us. He proceeds : * — " As the conditionally limited (which we may briefly...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.... | |
 | 1874 - 540 páginas
...affects us. Nothing can be more absurd than Hamilton's illustration of the eagle : " The eagle cannot outsoar the atmosphere in which he floats, and by...cannot transcend that sphere of limitation within or through which exclusively the possibility of thought is realised." Disc. p. 14. As Prof. Mac Ivor... | |
 | David Masson - 1877 - 354 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... | |
 | David Masson - 1877 - 320 páginas
...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... | |
 | David Masson - 1877 - 316 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..." which exclusively the possibility of thought is realized." J All Science, in short, is the science of the phenomenal, or conditioned, or relative,... | |
 | 1878 - 818 páginas
...the relations of which mind is constituted. Sir William Hamilton is fair authority, and he says : " Limitation is the fundamental law of the possibility...For, 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... | |
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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... 
