 And therefore if a man should talk to me of a round quadrangle; or accidents of bread in cheese; or immaterial substances; or of a free subject; a free will; or any free but free from being hindered by opposition; I should not say he were in an error,...  Letters on the Laws of Man's Nature and Development - Page 311by Henry George Atkinson, Harriet Martineau - 1851 - 396 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 810 pages
...or not to come, yet there was no impossibility discoverable. But when we make a general affirmation, unless it be a true one, the possibility of it is....those we call absurd, insignificant, and nonsense. ' Man excels all other animals in the faculty of reason ; but this privilege is alloyed by another,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Authors, English - 1836 - 538 pages
...of which, though it were not past, or not to come, yet there was no impossibility discoverable. But when we make a general assertion, unless it be a true...quadrangle, or accidents of bread in cheese, or immaterial substances, or of a free subject, a free will, or any free but free from being hindered by opposition... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1836 - 526 pages
...of which, though it were not past, or not to come, yet there was no impossibility discoverable. But when we make a general assertion, unless it be a true...quadrangle, or accidents of bread in cheese, or immaterial substances, or of a free subject, a free will, or any free but free from being hindered by opposition... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1836 - 530 pages
...of which, though it were not past, or not to come, yet there was no impossibility discoverable. But when we make a general assertion, unless it be a true...quadrangle, or accidents of bread in cheese, or immaterial substances, or of a free subject, a free will, or any free but free from being hindered by opposition... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - Philosophy, English - 1839 - 766 pages
...of which, though it were not past, or not to come, yet there was no impossibility discoverable. But when we make a general , assertion, unless it be a...quadrangle; or, accidents of bread in cheese; or, immaterial substances; or of a free subject ; a free will ; or any free, but free from being hindered by opposition,... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - Philosophy, English - 1839 - 766 pages
...of which, though it were not past, or not to come, yet there was no impossibility discoverable. But when we make a general assertion, unless it be a true...quadrangle; or, accidents of bread in cheese; or, immaterial substances; or of a free subject ; a free will ; or any free, but free from being hindered by opposi-... | |
 | Henry Hallam - Europe - 1839 - 428 pages
...identity of the subject with part of the 169 not error, though often so called, but absurdity (a). " If a man should talk to me of a round quadrangle, or accidents of bread in cheese, or immaterial substances, or of a free subject, a free will, or any free, but free from being hindered by opposition,... | |
 | Henry Hallam - Europe - 1839 - 718 pages
...general words, to fall on a false inference is not error, though often so called, but absurdity.* " If a man should talk to me of a round quadrangle, or they are called the same. And there seems no real difference in this respect between two circles of... | |
 | Christianity - 1846 - 588 pages
...of which, though it were not past, or not to come, yet there was no impossibility discoverable. But when we make a general assertion, unless it be a true one, the possibility of it is unconceivable. And words whereby we conceive nothing but the sound, are those we call absurd, insignificant,... | |
 | Henry Hallam - Europe - 1847 - 616 pages
...hesitate to say, that where the predicate is the prop rium (<Bioi')orchabut absurdity.* " If a man sbould talk to me of a round quadrangle, or accidents of bread in cheese, or immaterial substances, or of a free subject, a free will, or any free, but free from being hindered by opposition,... | |
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