 | Michael Anthony Corey - Religion - 1995 - 474 pages
...believe that it had reached its present degree of organization by chance alone. Rather, we would see that "its several parts are framed and put together for a purpose." It is this realization, Paley argued, that proves once and for all that the watch had an intelligent... | |
 | Edward Craig - Philosophy - 1998 - 896 pages
...watch, as well as for the stone? For this reason and for no other: viz., that, when we come to inspect the watch, we perceive (what we could not discover...parts are framed and put together for a purpose... ([1802] 1804: 1-2) Paley then points out that the universe and some of its parts - for example, living... | |
 | Hubert J. Richards - Religion - 2000 - 134 pages
...this answer serve for the watch as well as for the stone? For this reason: when we come to inspect the watch we perceive (what we could not discover...parts had been differently shaped from what they are, or placed after any other manner . . . either no motion at all would have been carried on in the machine,... | |
 | Michael R. Matthews - Education - 2000 - 474 pages
...well as for the stone? . . . For this reason, and for no other, viz. That, when we come to inspect the watch, we perceive (what we could not discover...several parts are framed and put together for a purpose. Paley also followed Boyle in being circumspect about the world as purposive: My opinion of astronomy... | |
 | P. J. Clarke - Religion - 2001 - 216 pages
...second case as in the first? For this reason, and for no other, viz., that, when we come to inspect the watch, we perceive (what we could not discover...a purpose, eg that they are so formed and adjusted to produce motion, and that motion so regulated as to point out the hour of the day; that, if the different... | |
 | Eric Steinhart - Computers - 2001 - 272 pages
...well as for the stone? . . . For this reason, and for no other, viz. that, when we come to inspect the watch, we perceive (what we could not discover...several parts are framed and put together for a purpose (p. 9) . . . the inference, we think, is inevitable; that the watch must have had a maker; that there... | |
 | Lucy Hartley - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 264 pages
...second case as in the f1rst? For this reason, and for no other - namely, that when we come to inspect the watch, we perceive (what we could not discover...its several parts are framed and put together for a purpose.19 The logic of this passage, from appearance and chance to mechanism and purpose, exemplifies... | |
 | Michael F. Palmer - Cosmology - 2001 - 388 pages
...case, as in the first? For this reason, and for no other, viz. that, when we come to inspect the warch, we perceive (what we could not discover in the stone) that its several parts are framed and pur together for a purpose, eg, that they are so formed and adjusted as to produce motion, and that... | |
 | Michael Anthony Corey - Anthropic principle - 2001 - 372 pages
.... For this reason, and for no other, viz. That when we come to inspect the watch, we perceive . . . that its several parts are framed and put together for a purpose.' When Paley introduced this line of argument with the publication of his highly influential Natural... | |
 | Anne Jordan, Neil Lockyer, Edwin Tate - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2002 - 246 pages
...second case as in the first? For this reason, and for no other, namely, that when we come to inspect the watch, we perceive - what we could not discover...hour of the day; that if the different parts had been differendy shaped from what they are, or placed after any other manner or in any other order than that... | |
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For this reason, and for no other, viz, that, when we come to inspect the watch, we perceive (what we could not discover in the stone) that its several parts are framed and put together for a purpose, eg that they are so formed and adjusted as to produce... 
