...be regarded as absolutely first in all hurnan knowledge. Some have considered as such the position, It is impossible for a thing to be and not to be at the same time ; others, Whatever is, is ; others, Every thing either is or is not ; others, the principle of the...

...regarded as absolutely first in all human knowledge. Some have considered as such the position, ß is impossible for a thing to be and not to be at the same time ; others, Whatever is, is ; others, Every thing; either is or it not ; others, the principle of the...

...absolutely first in all human knowledge. Some have considered as such the position, // is impossible far a thing to be and not to be at the same time ; others, Whatever is, is ; others, Everything either is or is not ; others, the principle of the sufficient...

...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. 4. And now we may affirm that, in all syllogisms of the first figure, if the premises are true, the...

...idea that a rational miud can form of the power of God himself, can we conceive that he could make a thing to be and not to be, at the same time ; or so operate on the past, as to cause that to have been which really had not been. That fluid, therefore,...

...contradictory, or abmrd, or what is, from the very nature of the case, imponible. For example; he cannot cause a thing to be and not to be, at the same time, and in the same respect. Or, he cannot cause a part of a thing to be greater than the whole of it....

...nothing is in itself impossible which does not imply a contradiction: and though it be a contradiction tablisk you in every good UWÄ'," 2 These, ii. 16 tin re is surely no contradiction in conceiving an imperfect being which before was not, afterward...

...is no object of omnipotency. As for instance, to make that not to be; that is, while it is, to make a thing to be and not to be at the same time ; or to make a thing that hath been, not to have been. This implies a contradiction, this is naturally...

...no exception. Our opponents themselves confess that it surpasses even the omnipotence of God to make a thing to be and not to be at the same time ; for example, that Csesar be truly man but not a rational being, that the same figure be both a square...

...understand me to mean ; which is not that he can do what would involve contradictions, like 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,...