 The contrary of every matter of fact is still possible; because it can never imply a contradiction, and is conceived by the mind with the same facility and distinctness, as if ever so conformable to reality.  A History of Philosophy - Stran 355avtor: Frank Thilly - 1914 - 612 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | David Hume - 1804 - 552 strani
...conceived by the mind with the same facility and distinctness, as if ever so conformable to reality. That the sun will not rise to-morrow, is no less intelligible...proposition, and implies no more contradiction than the affirmation, that it will rise. We should in vain, therefore, attempt to demonstrate its falsehood.... | |
 | David Hume - 1809 - 556 strani
...certainty and evi» dence. our evidence of their truth, however great, of a like nature with the foregoing. The contrary of every matter of fact is still possible ; because it can never imply a contradiction, and is conceived by the mind with the same facility and distinctness, as if ever so conformable to... | |
 | David Hume - 1817 - 528 strani
...same manner ; nor is our evidence of their truth, however great, of a like nature with the foregoing. The contrary of every matter of fact is still possible ; because it can never imply a contradiction, and is conceived by the mind with the same facility and distinctness, as if ever so conformable to... | |
 | David Hume - 1825 - 526 strani
...facility and distinctness, as if ever so conformable to reality. That the sun will not rise to-tnorrow, is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it wiS rise. We should in vain, therefore, attempt to demonstrate its falsehood.... | |
 | David Hume - 1826 - 626 strani
...same manner ; nor is our evidence of their truth, however great, of a like nature with the foregoing. The contrary of every matter of fact is still possible, because it can never imply a contradiction, and is conceived by the mind with the same facility and distinctness, as if ever so conformable to... | |
 | David Hume - 1826 - 628 strani
...with the same facility and distinctness, as if ever so conformable to reality. That the sun •anil not rise to-morrow, is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise. We should in vain, therefore, attempt to demonstrate its falsehood.... | |
 | John Leland - 1837 - 784 strani
...experience, or to the experience of others; for, as this gentleman observes in another part of his Essays, " the contrary of every matter of fact is still possible, because it can never imply a contradiction."* And again he says, speaking of matters of fact, " there are no demonstrative arguments in the case... | |
 | Johann Eduard Erdmann - 1840 - 460 strani
...same manner, nor is our evidence of their truth, however great, of a like nature with the foregoing. The contrary of every matter of fact is still possible, because it can never imply a contradiction. Sect. IV. p. 27. 3. It may be a subject worthy of curiosity to enquire what is the nature of that evidence,... | |
 | David Hume - 1854 - 576 strani
...same manner ; nor is our evidence of their truth, however great, of a like nature with the foregoing. The contrary of every matter of fact is still possible, because it can never imply a contradiction, and is conceived by the mind with the same facility and distinctness, as if ever so conformable to... | |
 | George Jamieson - 1859 - 280 strani
...contrary of any demonstrable conclusion in mathematics. Hume says no ! and gives an illustration. " That the sun will not rise to-morrow, is no less intelligible...proposition, and implies ,no more contradiction, than the affirmation that it will rise." Indeed ! Then it would be equally plausible to say, that two and... | |
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