 | James Welton, Alexander James Monahan - 1911 - 544 ページ
...kind of justification would you offer for the principle in question ? Comment on the following : — "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 contradiction,... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1914 - 344 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,... | |
 | John Snaith - 1914 - 424 ページ
...foregoing.' We have already, in part, shown the incorrectness of this statement. He goes on to say, ' 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 not rise to-morrow,... | |
 | Frank Thilly - 1914 - 640 ページ
...fallacious. Our evidence of the truth of matters of fact is not like the evidence we have in mathematics. 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 contradiction,... | |
 | David Hume - 1927 - 444 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 tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction... | |
 | Lewis White Beck - 1966 - 332 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;...the same facility and distinctness, as if ever so comformable to reality. That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition,... | |
 | Harold Morick - 1980 - 348 ページ
...their truth, however great, of a like nature with the foregoing. The contrary of every matter of tact is still possible, because it can never imply a contradiction...with the same facility and distinctness as if ever so comfortable to reality. That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition and... | |
 | Horace Standish Thayer - 1981 - 646 ページ
...Cf. Feigl and Sellars, p. 287. 27 Eg, An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Sec. IV, Part I : "The Contrary of every matter of fact is still possible;...because it can never imply a contradiction. . . ." And, going back to Aristotle, De interpretation 13, 22b2o: "A thing that may be may also not be," and 22bi5:... | |
 | Lothar Kreimendahl - 1982 - 244 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 . . ." (EHU25/UMV41, Hervorhebungen Humes). Hume unterscheidet hier wie dort notwendige Sätze a priori... | |
 | Ben Lazare Mijuskovic - 1984 - 224 ページ
...immaterial effects; or, differently put, that something produces "nothing.") Consequently, Hume insists that the "contrary of every matter of fact is still possible; because it can never imply a contradiction," An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (Oxford, 1972), p. 25; and since causes and effects are distinct... | |
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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... 
