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... conceived as existing absolutely in itself ; it is conceived as an absolute cause , as a cause which cannot but pass into operation ; in other words , the first element must manifest itself in the second . The first two Ideas are thus ...
... conceived as existing absolutely in itself ; it is conceived as an absolute cause , as a cause which cannot but pass into operation ; in other words , the first element must manifest itself in the second . The first two Ideas are thus ...
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... conceived by us as necessary and universal . But as , in the spontaneous intuition of reason , there is nothing voluntary , and consequently nothing personal ; and as the truths which intelli- gence here discovers come not from ...
... conceived by us as necessary and universal . But as , in the spontaneous intuition of reason , there is nothing voluntary , and consequently nothing personal ; and as the truths which intelli- gence here discovers come not from ...
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... conceived . 2 It is not an object of knowledge ; but its notion , as a regulative principle of the mind itself , is more than a mere negation of the Conditioned . 39 , It is cognisable , but not con- ceivable ; it can be known by a ...
... conceived . 2 It is not an object of knowledge ; but its notion , as a regulative principle of the mind itself , is more than a mere negation of the Conditioned . 39 , It is cognisable , but not con- ceivable ; it can be known by a ...
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... conceive neither an absolute whole , that is , a whole so great , that we cannot also conceive it as a relative part of a still greater whole ; nor an absolute part , that is , a part so small that we cannot also conceive it as a ...
... conceive neither an absolute whole , that is , a whole so great , that we cannot also conceive it as a relative part of a still greater whole ; nor an absolute part , that is , a part so small that we cannot also conceive it as a ...
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... conceived merely by a negation of conceivability ; and all that we know , is only known as " won from the void and formless Infinite . " How , indeed , it could ever be doubted that thought is only of the Conditioned , may well be ...
... conceived merely by a negation of conceivability ; and all that we know , is only known as " won from the void and formless Infinite . " How , indeed , it could ever be doubted that thought is only of the Conditioned , may well be ...
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Page 308 - ... with their correlatives freedom of choice and responsibility — man being all this, it is at once obvious that the principal part of his being is his mental power. In Nature there is nothing great but Man, In Man there is nothing great but Mind.
Page 14 - As the conditionally limited (which we may briefly call the conditioned) is thus the only possible object of knowledge and of positive thought — thought necessarily supposes conditions. To think is to condition ; and conditional limitation is the fundamental law of the possibility of thought.