 | 1866 - 830 หน้า
...finite, i* not to know it as finite. The conception of Infinite as greater than any given quantity, U a conception we all possess, sufficient for all human purposes, and as genuine and as good a positive conception as one need wish to have. . . . " Put Absolute instead of Infinite, and... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1865 - 578 หน้า
...answer, that to kno\v^ it as greater than anything finite is not to know it as finite>C The conception of Infinite as that which is greater than any given quantity,...of infinity can only be maintained by leaving out and ignoring, as Sir W. Hamilton invariably does, the very element which constitutes the idea. (Considering... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1865 - 578 หน้า
...answer, that to know it as greater than anything finite is not to know it as finite. The conception of Infinite as that which is greater than any given quantity,...of infinity can only be maintained by leaving out and ignoring, as Sir W. Hamilton invariably does, the very element which constitutes the idea. Considering... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1865 - 342 หน้า
...answer, that to know it as greater than anything finite is not to know it as finite. The conception of Infinite as that which is greater than any given quantity,...of infinity can only be maintained by leaving out and ignoring, as Sir W. Hamilton invariably does, the very element which constitutes the idea. Considering... | |
 | 1866 - 826 หน้า
...know it as greater than anything finite, is not to know it as finite. The conception of Infinite as greater than any given quantity, is a conception we...sufficient for all human purposes, and as genuine and as good a positive conception as one need wish to have. . . . " Put Absolute instead of Infinite, and... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1867 - 664 หน้า
...answer, that to know it as greater than anything finite is not to know it as finite. The conception of Infinite as that which is greater than any given quantity,...assertion that there is nothing positive in the idea * Lectures, ii. 375. of infinity can only be maintained by leaving out and ignoring, as Sir W. Hamilton... | |
 | Octavius Brooks Frothingham - 1876 - 358 หน้า
...well defined. Mr. Mill, speaking in another work of the word " Infinite," says : " The conception of Infinite as that which is greater than any given quantity,...of infinity can only be maintained by leaving out and ignoring the very element which constitutes the idea." " Put Absolute instead of Infinite, and... | |
 | Octavius Brooks Frothingham - 1876 - 308 หน้า
...well defined. Mr. Mill, speaking in another work of the word " Infinite," says : " The conception of Infinite as that which is greater than any given quantity,...good .a positive conception as one need wish to have. Tt is not adequate ; our conception of a reality never is. But it is positive ; and the assertion that... | |
 | Paul Carus - 1927 - 666 หน้า
...editions of that opus, show further that he was not to be moved from his position : "The conception of Infinite as that which is greater than any given quantity,...genuine and good a positive conception as one need wish" (p. 62). Again: "The space between two parallels, or between two diverging lines or surfaces, extends... | |
 | Horatio Willis Dresser - 1928 - 492 หน้า
...positive: what we lack is an adequate conception of space or duration as infinite. 4 ' The conception of infinite as that which is greater than any given quantity...of infinity can only be maintained by leaving out and ignoring, as Sir W. Hamilton invariably does, the very element which constitutes the idea."12 Hamilton's... | |
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I answer, that to know it as greater than anything finite is not to know it as finite. The conception of Infinite as that which is greater than any given quantity, is a conception we all possess, sufficient for all human purposes, and as genuine and good... 
