 | 1814 - 556 sider
...controversy between the Dogmatist and the Sceptic would be precisely of the same nature. Universal scepticism involves a contradiction in terms. It is a belief...its structure, and by other laws than those to which nature has subjected its operations. No man can be allowed to be an opponent in reasoning who does... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1854 - 580 sider
...enters into nearly every fact of consciousness is, to borrow the language of Sir James Mackintosh, " an attempt of the mind to act without its structure,...to which its nature has subjected its operations." Mental labor of any sort, which is voluntary, or directed by an action of the will, is accompanied... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1832 - 320 sider
...owned more frankly than Mr Hume^-that to this answer there is no serious reply. Universal scepticism involves a contradiction in terms. It is a belief that there can be no belief. It is aw attempt of the mind to act without its structure, and by other laws than those to which its nature... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1834 - 394 sider
...owned more frankly, than Mr, Hume, that to this answer there is no serious reply. Universal scepticism involves a contradiction in terms. It is a belief...reason without assenting to the principles on which its reasoning is founded, is not unlike an effort to feel without nerves, or to move without muscles.... | |
 | sir James Mackintosh - 1834 - 394 sider
...owned more frankly, than Mr. Hume, that to this answer there is no serious reply. Universal scepticism involves a contradiction in terms. It is a belief...reason without assenting to the principles on which its reasoning is founded, is not unlike an effort to feel without nerves, or to move without muscles.... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1834 - 402 sider
...no serious reply. Universal scepticism involves a contradiction in terms. It is a belief that thsre can be no belief. It is an attempt of the mind to...reason without assenting to the principles on which its reasoning is founded, is not unlike an effort to feel without nerves, or to move without muscles.... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1834 - 316 sider
...owned more frankly tha^-fMr Hume, thao to this answer there is no serious jreply. Universal scepticism involves a contradiction in terms. It is a belief...its structure, and by other laws than those to which Us nature has subjected its operations. To reason without assenting to the ^principles on which reasoning... | |
 | James Machintosh - 1884 - 310 sider
...owned more frankly, than Mr. Hume, that to this answer there is no serious reply. Universal scepticism involves a contradiction in terms. It is a belief...that there can be no belief. It is an attempt of the mmd to act without its structure, and by other laws than those to which its nature has subjected its... | |
 | Maurice Cross - 1835 - 520 sider
...between the Dogmatist and the Sceptic would be precisely of tin; same nature. Universal scepticism involves a contradiction in terms. It is a belief...its structure, and by other laws than those to which nature has subjected its operations. No man can be allowed to bo an opponent in reasoning who does... | |
 | William Honyman Gillespie - 1843 - 422 sider
...Warburton : Div. Leg.) Sir James Mackintosh shall supply us with the reason. " Uni" versa! scepticism involves a contradiction in terms. It is a belief that " there can be no belief." (Dissertation on Ethical Philosophy.) § 2. But 'tis certain, that the Unity and Perfections of the... | |
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Universal scepticism involves a contradiction in terms. It is a belief that there can be no belief. It is an attempt of the mind to act without its structure, and by other laws than those to which its nature has subjected its operations. To reason without... 
