 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.  The Philosophy of Rhetoric - 第 96 頁George Campbell 著 - 1801完整檢視 - 關於此書
 | William Duncan - 1802 - 256 頁
...are perfect ; or to say that all men are mortal, and yet that some men are not mortal, is to assert a thing to be and not to be at the same time. S«c. IV.... Demonstration, an Infallible Guide to Truth and Certainty. And now I think we are sufficiently... | |
 | William Duncan - 1802 - 258 頁
...are perfect ; or to say that nil men are mortal, and yet that some men are not mortal, is to assert a thing to be and not to be at the same time. Sec. IV. ...Demonstration, an Infallible Guide to Truth and Certainty. And now I think we are sufficiently... | |
 | John Aikin - 1807 - 684 頁
...their velocities. He proposes two principles as the foundation of all our knowledge; the first, that it is impossible for a thing to be and not to be at the same time, which, he says, is the foundation of speculative truth. The other is, that nothing is without a sufficient... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 486 頁
...some things which are absolutely impossible, and others which are only so exparte; as it is absolutely impossible for a thing to be, and not to be at the same time : But for a stone to move naturally upward, is only impossible ex parte materife; but it is not impossible... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 頁
...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. There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the... | |
 | Samuel Whelpley - 1808 - 390 頁
...or contradictions ; for instance, that he cannot cause two and two to be five : that he cannot cause a thing to be and not to be, at the same time : but that he can cause a thing to be at one time, and not to be at another, involves no absurdity.... | |
 | John Gill - 1810 - 620 頁
...to such dignity as to have divine perfections ascribed to it; he cannot make contradictions true ; a thing to be, and not to be at the same time ; or make a thing not to have been that has been ; but then these are no prejudices to his omnipotence,... | |
 | Joseph Bellamy - 1812 - 556 頁
...reconciled to a character against which he was not at enmity, implies a contradiction. For it supposes a thing to be, and not to be, at the same time. For a call to a reconciliation supposes enmity. Therefore the Gospel did not call Adam after his fall... | |
 | Joseph Bellamy - 1812 - 702 頁
...reconciled to a character against which he was not at enmity, implies a contradiction. For it supposes a thing to be, and not to be, at the same time. For a call to a reconciliation supposes enmity. Therefore the Gospel did not call Adam after his fall... | |
 | 1817 - 608 頁
...original doctrine to be absurd.' No absurdity can be greater than that the same principle should prove a thing to be, and not to be, at the same time; and if, therefore, we can demonstrate that Hume's rule on this subject is equally conclusive both against,... | |
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