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" I knew to the contrary, it had lain there for ever: nor would it perhaps be very easy to show the absurdity of this answer. But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be inquired how the watch happened to be in that place; I should... "
The Shrewsbury Edition of the Works of Samuel Butler: Evolution, old and new - Page 10
by Samuel Butler - 1924
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Darwin's Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and ...

Gillian Beer - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2000 - 316 pages
...foot against a sttme, and were asked how the stone came to be there, I might possibly answer that, lor anything I knew to the contrary, it had lain there...in that place, I should hardly think of the answer which I had before given that for anything I knew, the watch might have always been there. Vel why...
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Know Why You Believe

Paul E. Little - Religion - 2000 - 196 pages
...modern science. To illustrate this, William Paley in the eighteenth century couched this view for us: Suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it...happened to be in that place. I should hardly think the answer would be ... the watch must have always been there. Of course, the watch must have had a...
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Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos

Roger Lewin - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1999 - 276 pages
...possibly answer, that for anything I knew to the contrary, it had lain there forever," it begins. Then: "But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground,...should be inquired how the watch happened to be in the place; I should hardly think of the answer which I had before given, that, for anything I knew,...
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Time for Science Education: How Teaching the History and Philosophy of ...

Michael R. Matthews - Education - 2000 - 474 pages
...But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be enquired how the watch happended to be in that place; I should hardly think of the answer which I had before given, that for anything I knew, the watch might have always been there. Yet why...
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Physiognomy and the Meaning of Expression in Nineteenth-Century Culture

Lucy Hartley - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 264 pages
...stone, and were I asked how the stone came to be there, I might possibly answer that, for anything 1 knew to the contrary, it had lain there for ever;...in that place, I should hardly think of the answer which I had before given that for anything I knew, the watch might have always been there. Yet why...
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The Mystery of Reason

Paul Haffner - Apologetics - 2001 - 304 pages
...there; I might possibly answer, that, for anything I knew to the contrary, it had lain there forever: nor would it perhaps be very easy to show the absurdity...in that place; I should hardly think of the answer which I had before given, that, for anything I knew, the watch might have always been there. Yet why...
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Questions about God: A Guide for Students

P. J. Clarke - Religion - 2001 - 216 pages
...there for ever; nor would it, perhaps, be very easy to show the absurdity of this answer. But suppose l found a watch upon the ground, and it should be inquired how the watch happened to be in that place. l should hardly think of the answer which l had before given - that, for anything l knew, the watch...
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The Question of God: An Introduction and Sourcebook

Michael F. Palmer - Cosmology - 2001 - 388 pages
...of this answer. But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be inquired how that watch happened to be in that place: I should hardly think of the answer which I had before given, that, for anything I knew, the watch might have always been there. Yet why...
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The Question of God: An Introduction and Sourcebook

Michael F. Palmer - Cosmology - 2001 - 388 pages
...this answer. But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be inquited how that warch happened to be in that place: I should hardly think of the answer which 1 had before given, that, for anything I knew, the warch might have always been there. Yet why...
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Philosophy of Religion

Anne Jordan, Neil Lockyer, Edwin Tate - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2002 - 246 pages
...made of a stone? Remind yourself of the meaning of analogy, by kx>king back at Chapter 2 (page 17). had lain there for ever; nor would it, perhaps be...in that place, I should hardly think of the answer which I had before given, that for any thing I knew the watch might have always been there. Yet why...
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