 | Frederick Denison Maurice - Rationalism - 1859 - 524 pages
...INFINITE A NEGATION. 299 " guished from anything else, and discerned as an " object of consciousness. " This contradiction, which is utterly inexplicable...If all thought is limitation ; — if whatever we con" ceive is, by the very act of conception, regarded as " finite, — the iafinite, from a human... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - 1859 - 516 pages
...which it can be distin" guished from anything else, and discerned as an " object of consciousness. " This contradiction, which is utterly inexplicable..." If all thought is limitation ;—if whatever we con" ceive is, by the very act of conception, regarded as " finite,—the infinite, from a human point... | |
 | Goldwin Smith - Rationalism - 1861 - 168 pages
...182). Let us combine with this another proposition—(p. 72)—" If all thought is limitation;—if whatever we conceive is by the very act of conception regarded as finite,—the infinite, from a human point of view, is merely a name for the absence of those conditions... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Philosophy, Modern - 1865 - 528 pages
...by limitation and difference, of that which can only be given as unlimited. and indifferent. * * * " This contradiction, which is utterly inexplicable...very act of conception, regarded as finite, — the injinite,from a human_ppint of view,"" is merely a name for *h« n.lw»nn«_nf_jJTnaa .«vmititinna... | |
 | Bible - 1866 - 732 pages
...struggling with these difficulties : " The contradiction which is utterly inexplicable on the ground that the infinite is a positive object of human thought,...when it is regarded as the mere negation of thought." Again : " The infinite from a human point of view is merely a name for the absence of those conditions... | |
 | Theology - 1866 - 778 pages
...struggling with these difficulties: "The contradiction which is utterly inexplicable on the ground that the infinite is a positive object of human thought,...when it is regarded as the mere negation of thought." Again : " The infinite from a human point of view is merely a name for the absence of those conditions... | |
 | Religion and science - 1867 - 510 pages
...notice one sentence towards the close, which I cannot pass over : — " Mr. Mansel says again that ' whatever we conceive is, by the very act of conception, regarded as finite.' So when we conceive of an object which has TIO limits, we conceive of it as having limits ! " But can... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Philosophy, English - 1870 - 600 pages
...by limitation and difference, of that which can only be given as unlimited and indifferent. * * * " This contradiction, which is utterly inexplicable...conceive is, by the very act of conception, regarded as finite,—the infinite, from a human point of view, is merely a name for the absence of those conditions... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1870 - 588 pages
...infinite is a positive object of human bought, is at once accounted for, when it is regarded as the nere negation of thought. If all thought is limitation...whatever we conceive is, by the very act of conception, 'egarded as finite, — the infinite, from a human point of view, a merelv^a name for the absence of... | |
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This contradiction, which is utterly inexplicable on the supposition that the infinite is a positive object of human thought, is at once accounted for, when it is regarded as the mere negation of thought. 
