 | Immanuel Kant - 1881 - 592 ページ
...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 . . . That the sun vrill not rise to-morrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1882 - 722 ページ
...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,...distinctness, as if ever so conformable to reality. That the sun will not rise to-morrow, is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction,... | |
 | 1883 - 836 ページ
...same manner, nor is an evidence of their truth, however great, of a like nature with the foregoing. The contrary of every matter of fact is still possible,...distinctness as if ever so conformable to reality. That the sun will not rise to-morrow, is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction,... | |
 | Thomas Ebenezer Webb - 1885 - 396 ページ
...her operations ' still ' the discovery of the law itself is owing merely to experience ' (iv. 39). 'The contrary of every matter of fact is still possible,...distinctness as if ever so conformable to reality,' and therefore the evidence of its truth, however great, is not of a like nature with the evidence of... | |
 | William Greenough Thayer Shedd - 1888 - 572 ページ
...that the sun must of necessity rise in the east from eternity to eternity. Says Hume (Inquiry V.) : " The contrary of every matter of fact is still possible,...a contradiction, and is conceived by the mind with equal facility and distinctness, as if ever so conformable to reality. That the sun will rise to-morrow,... | |
 | Edward Caird - 1889 - 688 ページ
...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...distinctness, as if ever so conformable to reality. That the sun will not rise to-morrow, is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction,... | |
 | Francis Asbury Shoup - 1891 - 376 ページ
...mathematical truths] ; 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,...distinctness, as if ever so conformable to reality. ' That the sun will not rise to-morrow,' is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1896 - 346 ページ
...evidence of their truth, however great, of a like nature with the foregoing. The contrary of eveiy matter of fact is still possible, because it can never...distinctness, as if ever so conformable to reality. That the sun will not rise to-morrow, is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction,... | |
 | James Hutchison Stirling - 1900 - 452 ページ
...relations, ideas in things. But things are matters of fact ; and Hume has but this moment told us that, " The contrary of every matter of fact is still possible, because it can never imply a contradiction." Matters of fact ! Yes; but matters of fact just mean existences, and be as it may with them, may it... | |
 | Ludwig Noiré - 1900 - 374 ページ
...l /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 . . . That the sun will not rise to-morrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more... | |
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Matters of fact, which are the second objects of human reason, are not ascertained in the 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... 
