 | Sir William Hamilton - 1852 - 848 pagine
...appropriate simile) the eagle outsoar the atmosphere in which he floats, and by which alone ho may be supported ; so the mind cannot transcend that sphere...through which exclusively the possibility of thought is realised. Thought is only of the conditioned ; because, as we have said, to think is simply to condition.... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1853 - 606 pagine
...shows, that as the eagle cannot out-soar the atmosphere in which he floats, and by which alone he is he argues, is only of the conditioned, because to think is to condition : conditional limitation is... | |
 | 1853 - 570 pagine
...shows, that as the eagle cannot out-soar the atmosphere in which he floats, and by which alone he is supported ; so the mind cannot transcend that sphere...through which exclusively the possibility of thought is realised. Thought, he argues, is only of the conditioned, because to think is to cojidition : conditional... | |
 | Joseph Jones - 1853 - 208 pagine
...is to condition ; and conditional limitation is the fundamental law of the possibility of thought. The mind cannot transcend that sphere of limitation,...through which exclusively the possibility of thought is realised. Thought is only of the conditioned. 7. Thought cannot transcend consciousness: consciousness,... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1854 - 444 pagine
...appropriate simile) the eagle outsoar the atmosphere in which he floats, and by which alone he may be supported, so the mind cannot transcend that sphere...through which exclusively the possibility of thought is realised." This is most true, and as admirably expressed as it is true. Time and Space are thus, then,... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1859 - 546 pagine
...appropriate simile) the eagle out-soar the atmosphere in which he floats, and by which alone he may be supported ; so the mind cannot transcend that sphere...is only known as ' won from the void and formless infinite.'1 How, indeed, it could ever be doubted that thought is only of the conditioned, may well... | |
 | Eleazar Lord - 1859 - 168 pagine
...conditional limitation is the fundamental law of the possibility of thought. . . . The mind can not transcend that sphere of limitation, within and through...is only known as ' won from the void and formless infinite.11 How indeed it could ever be doubted that thought is only of the conditioned, may well be... | |
 | 1861 - 824 pagine
...appropriate simile) the eagle outsoar the atmosphere in which he floats, and by which alone he may be supported ; so the mind cannot transcend that sphere...conceived merely by a negation of conceivability ; and all we know is only known as ' Won from the void and formless infinite.' How, indeed, it could ever be... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1861 - 816 pagine
...outsoar the atmosphere in which he floats, and by which alone he may be supported ; so the mind can not transcend that sphere of limitation, within and through...is conceived merely by a negation of conceivability ; arid all that we know, is only known as ' won from the void and formless in How, indeed, it could... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1865 - 342 pagine
...more appropriate simile) the eagle outsoar the atmosphere in which he floats, and by which alone he is supported, so the mind cannot transcend that sphere...negation of conceivability ; and all that we know, is known as — ' Won from the cold and formless Infinite.' " How, indeed, it could ever be doubted that... | |
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To think is to condition ; and conditional limitation is the fundamental law of the possibility of thought For, as the greyhound cannot outstrip his shadow, nor (by a more appropriate simile) the eagle out-soar the atmosphere in which he floats, and by... 
