 | Frederick Copleston - 1999 - 452 ページ
...cannot deny that 2+2=4 without being involved in contradiction: the opposite is inconceivable. But 'the contrary of every matter of fact is still possible, because it can never imply a contradiction. . . . That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition and implies no more... | |
 | David Hume - 2000 - 460 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,... | |
 | S. Morris Engel - 2001 - 442 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 im'•'^ -! plies no... | |
 | Itzhak Gilboa, David Schmeidler - 2001 - 214 ページ
...Hume, explicit induction does not rely on sound logical foundations. Hume (1748, Section IV) writes: 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... | |
 | Stathis Psillos - 2002 - 342 ページ
...(ibid.). Matters of fact "are not ascertained in the same manner; nor is our evidence of their truth, however great, of a like nature with the foregoing...distinctness, as if ever so conformable to reality" (E: 256). So relations of ideas belong to the realm of reason and are knowable a priori, whereas matters... | |
 | Andrew Bailey - 2002 - 1002 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... | |
 | Various - 2002 - 596 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... | |
 | Michael Huemer - 2002 - 636 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 u'ill not rise to-morrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction,... | |
 | Richard L. Velkley - 2002 - 203 ページ
...prior to Kant. The Humean version turns out to be one of the bedrocks of modern and recent philosophy: "The contrary of every matter of fact is still possible:...distinctness, as if ever so conformable to reality." 4 The primacy of logic is expressed here as the identification of the possible with the noncontradictory,... | |
 | Claudia Moscovici - 2002 - 184 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. (Enquiries, 25-26) Hume argues that we cannot claim that a posteriori matters of fact have the same... | |
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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... 
