 | 1823 - 894 pàgines
...proposition whose truth every person perceives at first sight. Thus, that the whole is greater than a part -, that a thing cannot be and not be at the same time ; and that from nothing, nothing can arise ; are axioms. AXIOM is also an established principle in some art or... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 852 pàgines
...grandeur, dignity, and sublimity of style. AXIOMS, in logic. That the whole is greater than a part; that a thing cannot be, and not be at the same time; and that from nothing, nothing can arise; are axioms indisputable. Established principles in arts and sciences... | |
 | George Crabb - 1831 - 426 pàgines
...proposition, the truth of which is perceived at first sight. Thus, that a whole is greater than a part; that a thing cannot be and not be, at the same time ; and that from nothing, nothing can arise, are self-evident truths, or axioms. An axiom is also an established... | |
 | John BARCLAY (Pastor of the Berean Assembly at Edinburgh.) - 1836 - 164 pàgines
...cause another thing to be, before itself be first caused to be — and that for this plain reason, that a thing cannot be and not be at the same time, and in the same respect ; existence and non-existence being a contradiction in terms, which, however, behoved... | |
 | John Wycliffe - 1845 - 458 pàgines
...faculty by which we gain our knowledge of the fundamental principles of science, such as that the same thing cannot be, and not be, at the same time, and that the whole must be greater than its parts. By science, we arrive at the results of scientific investigation.... | |
 | John Barclay - 1852 - 292 pàgines
...cause another thing to be, before itself be first caused to be — and that for this plain reason, that a thing cannot be and not be at the same time, and in the same respect ; existence and non-existence being a contradiction in terms, which, however, behoved... | |
 | Alexander Alison - 1860 - 476 pàgines
...they on the mind, that I have spoken of them as properties of reason. I will mention a few of these axioms : — That a thing cannot be, and not be at the same time ; — that nothing can produce nothing ; that two things which are contrary cannot both be true,... | |
 | Joseph Cook - 1877 - 326 pàgines
...was, and always will rue that a whole is greater than a part, and that the sums of equals are equals ; that a thing cannot be and not be at the same time and in the same sense. We are confident that these laws hold good here, and in Orion, and everywhere. We... | |
 | Joseph Cook - 1877 - 138 pàgines
...proposition just as clearly true as that a straight line is the shortest distance between two points, or that a thing cannot be, and not be at the same time and in the same sense as any other intuitive deliverance of our faculties ? 2. In the nature of things... | |
 | Joseph Cook - 1877 - 360 pàgines
...not if we are to adhere to the first of all logical laws, that, whatever stands or whatever falls, a thing cannot be and not be at the same time and in the same sense. [Applause.] • 6. If matter is a double-faced unity, having a spiritual and physical... | |
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There never will come a time when transcendentalism will meet with successful opposition to its assertion that a thing cannot be and not be at the same time and in the same sense. 
