...consequently know the limited and the conditionally limited. " To think is to condition," he says, " and conditional limitation is the fundamental law of the possibility of thought." After, in reiterated terms, insisting upon the obvious conclusion that the human mind can never under...

...of certain facts is always conditioned by our knowledge of other facts. 'To think', writes Hamilton, 'is to condition; and conditional limitation is the fundamental law of the possibility of thought.' Just as 'the eagle [cannot] outsoar the atmosphere in which he floats; so the mind cannot transcend...

...only possible object of knowledge and of positive thought — thought necessarily supposes conditions, To think is to condition; and conditional limitation...the possibility of thought, For, as the greyhound can not outstrip his shadow ,,, so the mind can not transcend that sphere of limitation within and...

...these Ideas, made them to appear absurd. Why, for example, has Sir William Hamilton affirmed, that 'to think is to condition, and conditional limitation is the fundamental law of the possibility of thought?1 His fundamental error lies here. He has assumed, that whatever is not apprehensible through...

...finds support in Sir William Hamilton's remarks in his essay on the "Philosophy of the Unconditioned," "As the greyhound cannot outstrip his shadow, nor...the eagle outsoar the atmosphere in which he floats, by which alone he may be supported, so the mind cannot transcend that sphere of limitation within and...

...limited, or the condition, is the only possible object of thought and of a knowledge that is positive. To think is to condition 'and conditional limitation...the fundamental law of the possibility of thought. The greyhound cannot outstrip its shadow, nor can the eagle outsoar the atmosphere in which he floats,...

...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 though.t. How, indeed, it could ever be doubted that thought is only of the conditioned, may well be deemed a...

...ancient families still retain their greens or whites. Herbert Spencer has said, "As the eagle cannot out-soar 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 exculsively...