 | Pierre Du Moulin - 1833 - 310 страници
...no exception. Our opponents themselves confess that it surpasses even the omnipotence of God to make a thing to be and not to be at the same time ; for example, that Csesar be truly man but not a rational being, that the same figure be both a square... | |
 | Origen Bacheler - 1822 - 228 страници
...understand me to mean ; which is not that he can do what would involve contradictions, like causing a thing to be and not to be at the same time ; nor that he can do any thing which in the nature of things is impossible, like moving matter by persuasion,... | |
 | sir Richard Phillips - 1835 - 608 страници
...of continuity is exactly preserved. The two great principles of Leibnitz were, that it is impossible for a thing to be, and not to be, at the same time; and that nothing is without a sufficient reason why it should be so, rather than otherwise. LEITCIPPUS,... | |
 | Enchiridion - 1836 - 730 страници
...essence remains without the essence," that is, " without itself." The other, that " this doctrine makes a thing to be and not to be at the same time." I shall use them both but promiscuously, because they are reducible to one. 11. The doctrine of transubstantiation... | |
 | 1836 - 422 страници
...any particular place — cannot change. He can create innumerable worlds with a word, but cannot make a thing to be and not to be at the same time. He might change a mouse into an elephant ; but then the elephant so formed would not be a mouse. When... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - 1836 - 434 страници
...that involves in it either a logical or a mathematical contradiction. He could not, for example, make a thing to be and not to be at the same time — or he could not make a circle whose circumference shall be precisely three times its diameter.... | |
 | Jesse Appleton - 1837 - 562 страници
...produce infinite effects ; and 2. Unless he can cause a part to be greater than the whole, and cause a thing to be and not to be at the same time. I answer, that neither of these effects is conceivable. They both imply absurdity. If there could be,... | |
 | Frederic Martin (of London.) - 1838 - 418 страници
...itself: because these things are as plainly impossible, and as directly opposed to reason and nature, as for a thing to be, and not to be, at the same time; insomuch that nothing could be more, absurd than an attempt to prove their impossibility. Here, then,... | |
 | John Dick - 1838 - 564 страници
...of any of hw attributes, or to possess them in a less or a greater degree, as it would be to suppose a thing to be and not to be at the same time. The essences in fact of all things are immutable. They may be annihilated by the power which created... | |
 | Stephen Charnock - 1840 - 792 страници
...things are impossible in their own nature. Such are all those things which imply a contradiction ; as for a thing to be, and not to be at the same time ; for the sun to shine, and not to shine at the same moment of time; for a creature to act, and not... | |
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Men suffer all their life long under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time. 
