...jumps), and the law of continuity is exactly preserved. The two great principles of Leibnitz were, that it is impossible for a thing to be, and not to be, at the same time; and that nothing is without a sufficient reason why it should be so, rather than otherwise. LEITCIPPUS,...

...that involves in it either a logical or a mathematical contradiction. He could not, for example, make a thing to be and not to be at the same time — or he could not make a circle whose circumference shall be precisely three times its diameter....

...essence remains without the essence," that is, " without itself." The other, that " this doctrine makes a thing to be and not to be at the same time." I shall use them both but promiscuously, because they are reducible to one. 11. The doctrine of transubstantiation...

...any particular place — cannot change. He can create innumerable worlds with a word, but cannot make a thing to be and not to be at the same time. He might change a mouse into an elephant ; but then the elephant so formed would not be a mouse. When...

...produce infinite effects ; and 2. Unless he can cause a part to be greater than the whole, and cause a thing to be and not to be at the same time. I answer, that neither of these effects is conceivable. They both imply absurdity. If there could be,...

...itself: because these things are as plainly impossible, and as directly opposed to reason and nature, as for a thing to be, and not to be, at the same time; insomuch that nothing could be more, absurd than an attempt to prove their impossibility. Here, then,...

...of any of hw attributes, or to possess them in a less or a greater degree, as it would be to suppose a thing to be and not to be at the same time. The essences in fact of all things are immutable. They may be annihilated by the power which created...

...things are impossible in their own nature. Such are all those things which imply a contradiction ; as for a thing to be, and not to be at the same time ; for the sun to shine, and not to shine at the same moment of time; for a creature to act, and not...

...understand me to mean ; which is not that he can do what would involve contradictions, lilte causing a thing to be and not to be at the same time ; nor that he can do any thing which in the nature of things is impossible, like moving matter by persuasion,...

...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...