Clavis universalis: or, A new inquiry after truth [ed. by T. Maitland].By Ballantyne, 1836 - 183 Seiten |
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Seite 1 - Wherein the Question in General is explained and stated, and the whole subject divided into two particular heads. THOUGH I am verily persuaded that, in the whole course of the following treatise, I shall or can have no other adversary but prejudice ; yet, having by me no mechanical engine proper to remove it ; nor being able to invent any other method of attacking it, besides that of fair reason and argument; rather than the world should finish its course without once offering to enquire in what...
Seite 2 - The Question I am concerned about is in general this — Whether there be any such thing as an External World. And my title will suffice to inform my reader, that the negative of this question is the point I am to demonstrate.
Seite 85 - I am that an orthodox person would be ashamed to say so: and yet, if it be not granted immediately that there is (as far as our understandings can dive or penetrate) a contradiction in the supposed articles of the trinity, &c. the objection...
Seite 104 - God is every where present in, and with it; for he is supposed to preserve and do every thing that is done in it. To deny this, is to shut him out of the universe, even altogether to deny his being. On the contrary, to affirm that he is thus present with every part and...
Seite 5 - I declare in the first place that in affirming that there is no external world, I make no doubt or question of the existence of bodies, or whether the bodies which are seen exist or not. It is with me a first principle that whatsoever is seen, is. To deny or doubt of this is errant scepticism...
Seite 4 - I hold the description to be so just and apposite as if a man should say a thing is like itself. For I suppose I need not tell my reader that when I affirm that all matter exists in mind after the same manner as body exists in place, I mean the very same as if I had said that mind itself is the place of body, and so its place as that it is not capable of existing in any other place, or in place after any other manner.
Seite 6 - ... the extra-existence of certain things or objects ; or, in other words, what I affirm and contend for, is not that bodies do not exist, or that the external world does not exist, but that such and such bodies, which are supposed to exist, do not exist externally ; or in universal terms, that there is no such thing as an external world. Secondly, I...
Seite 33 - First then I am content for a while to grant that there is an external world, and in this world an external moon in a place far distant from us, which we call the heavens. Still the question returns, whether the moon which I see be that external moon here supposed to be in the heavens? Well now, the moon which I see is a luminous or bright object. But is the moon supposed to be in the heavens a luminous thing or body? No; but...
Seite 121 - And the same arguments by which it is demonstrated to be a truth, prove the use of all language unclean to such as these. For such are servants to the power of a corrupt language, and know not their right of freedom from it; and this makes them guilty of all the errors which it supposes. Whereas those who know and believe this truth, are free to use any language, or way of speaking, wherein this truth is not formally or directly contradicted, without being accountable for the corruption of human...
Seite 2 - I shall not here inquire. On the contrary, I should be glad to find by the event, that all mankind were agreed in that which I contend for as the truth, viz. that matter is not, cannot be independent, absolute, or self-existent.