 To suppose a finite being to be selfexistent, is to say that it is a contradiction for that being not to exist, the absence of which may yet be conceived without a contradiction. Which is the greatest absurdity in the world.  Physical and Metaphysical Inquiries - Seite 232von Physical and metaphysical inquiries - 1806 - 335 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Joseph Priestley - 1787 - 602 Seiten
...the fame with the preceding. " To fuppofe a finite Being," p. 47, " to be felf-exiftent, is to fay, that it " is a contradiction for that Being not to...which " is the greateft abfurdity in the world.'' Here he takes it for granted, that the idea of the felf-exiftence of any Being implies its being a... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1813 - 790 Seiten
...to be selfexistent, is to say, that it is a contradiction for that being not to exist, the absence of which may yet be conceived without a contradiction ; which is the greatest absurdity in the world." The sense of these words, " the absence of which," seems plainly... | |
 | Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1838 - 616 Seiten
...to be self-existing, is to say, that it is a contradiction for that being not to exist, the absence of which may yet be conceived without a contradiction ; which is the greatest absurdity in the world." The sense of these words, "the absence of which," seems plainly to... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1845 - 642 Seiten
...to be self-existent, is to say that it is a contradiction for that being not to exist, the absence of which may yet be conceived without a contradiction; which is the greatest absurdity in the world." The sense of these words ["the absence of which"] seems plainly to... | |
 | Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax - 1848 - 632 Seiten
...to be self-existent, is to say that it is a contradiction for that being not to exist, the absence of which may yet be conceived without a contradiction; which is the greatest absurdity in the world." The sense of these words ["the absence of which"] seems plainly to... | |
 | Walter Farquhar Hook - 1859 - 826 Seiten
...to be self-existent, is to say, that it is a contradiction for that being not to exist, the absence of which may yet be conceived without a contradiction; which is the greatest absurdity in the world. From hence it follows, that the infinity of the self-existent Being... | |
 | Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1862 - 574 Seiten
...being to be selfexistent, is to say that it is a contradiction for that being not to exist, the absence of which may yet be conceived without a contradiction ; which is the greatest absurdity in the world." The sense of these words [" the absence of which"] seems plainly... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1896 - 514 Seiten
...to be self-existent, is to say that it is a contradiction for that being not to exist, the absence of which may yet be conceived without a contradiction ; which is the greatest absurdity in the world.' The sense of these words ['the absence of which'] seems plainly to... | |
 | William Ewart Gladstone - 1896 - 510 Seiten
...to be self-existent, is to say that it is a contradiction for that being not to exist, the absence of which may yet be conceived without a contradiction; which is the greatest absurdity in the world.' The sense of these words ['the absence of which'] seems plainly to... | |
 | 1843 - 666 Seiten
...to be self-existent, is to say that it is a contradiction for that being not to exist, the absence of which may yet be conceived without a contradiction ; which is the greatest absurdity in the world. For if a being can, without a contradiction, be absent from one place,... | |
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