 I cannot but wonder that so much stress should be laid on the circumstance of inconceivableness when there is such ample experience to show that our capacity or incapacity of conceiving a thing has very little to do with the possibility of the thing in...  A Logic of Facts, Or, Every-day Reasoning - Page 21by George Jacob Holyoake - 1866 - 93 pagesFull view - About this book
 | England - 1843 - 832 pages
...incapacity for conceiving a thing has very little to do with the possihility of the thing in itself; hut is in truth very much an affair of accident, and depends upon' the past hahits and history of our own minds. There is no more generally acknowledged fact in human nature,... | |
 | Christianity - 1843 - 750 pages
...experience to show, that our capacity or incapacity of conceiving a thing has very little to do with the possibility of the thing in itself; but is in truth...history and habits of our own minds. There is no more generally-admitted fact in human nature, than the extreme difficulty at first felt in conceiving anything... | |
 | Christianity - 1843 - 744 pages
...and depends upon the past history and habits of our own minds. There is no more generally-admitted fact in human nature, than the extreme difficulty...anything as possible which is in contradiction to long-established and familiar experience, or even to old and familiar habits of thought. And this difficulty... | |
 | Scotland - 1843 - 1380 pages
...incapacity for conceiving a thing has very little to do with the possibility of the thing initself; but is in truth very much an affair of accident, and depends upon the past habits and history of our own minds. There is no more generally acknowledged fact in human nature,... | |
 | 1843 - 744 pages
...experience to show, that our capacity or incapacity of conceiving a thing has very little to do with the possibility of the thing in itself; but is in truth very much an atfnir of accident, and depends upon the past history and habits of our own minds. There is no more... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Knowledge, Theory of - 1846 - 630 pages
...experience to show that our capacity or incapacity of conceiving a thing has very little to do with the possibility of the thing in itself; but is in truth...affair of accident, and depends upon the past history ami habits of our own minds. There is no more generally acknowledged fact in human nature, than the... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Philosophy - 1851 - 530 pages
...experience to show, that our capacity or incapacity of conceiving a thing has very little to do with the possibility of the thing in itself; but is in truth very much an affair of accident, and depends on the past history and habits of our own minds. There is no more generally acknowledged fact in human... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Human information processing - 1854 - 514 pages
...experience to show, that our capacity or incapacity of conceiving a thing has very little to do with the possibility of the thing in itself; but is in truth...depends upon the past history and habits of our own mimls. There is no more generally acknowledged fact in human nature, than the extreme difficulty at... | |
 | Presbyterianism - 1855 - 646 pages
...Stillingfleet on the Trinity, page 7, A'c. ty of conceiving a thing has very little to do with the possibility of the thing in itself; but is, in truth, very much an affair of accident, and depends on the past history and habits of our own minds. * * * * When we have often seen and thought of two... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Psychology - 1859 - 508 pages
...experience to show, that our capacity or incapacity of conceiving a thing has very little to do with the possibility of the thing in itself; but is in truth...the extreme difficulty at first felt in conceiving any thing as possible, which is in contradiction to long established and familiar experience, or even... | |
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