| David Hume - 1826 - 596 ˹éÒ
...implies a contradiction. Nothing, that is distinctly conceivable, implies a contradiction. Whatever we conceive as existent, we can also conceive as non-existent....controversy upon it. It is pretended that the Deity is a necessarily existent being; and this necessity of his existence is attempted to be explained by asserting,... | |
| David Hume - 1826 - 592 ˹éÒ
...Nothing, that is distinctly conceivable, implies a contradiction. Whatever we conceive as existent, we ran also conceive as non-existent. There is no being,...controversy upon it . It is pretended that the Deity is a necessarily existent being ; and this necessity of his existence is attempted to be explained by asserting,... | |
| William Honyman Gillespie - 1843 - 422 ˹éÒ
...existent, we can also conceive as non" existent. There is no being, therefore, whose non" existence implies a contradiction. Consequently there " is no being, whose existence is demonstrable." § 17. Mr Hume has emphatically added: " / propose " this argument as entirely decisive, and am willing... | |
| 1846 - 810 ˹éÒ
...arguments a priori. Nothing is demonstrable, unless the contrary implies a contradiction. Whatever we conceive as existent, we can also conceive as non-existent. There is nothing, therefore, whose non-existence implies a contradiction. Consequently, there is no being whose... | |
| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1846 - 810 ˹éÒ
...arguments a priori. Nothing is demonstrable, unless the contrary implies a contradiction. Whatever we conceive as existent, we can also conceive as non-existent. There is nothing, therefore, whose non-existence implies a contradiction. Consequently, there is no being whose... | |
| Leslie Stephen - 1876 - 492 ˹éÒ
...contrary implies a contradiction. Nothing that is distinctly conceivable implies a contradiction. Whatever we conceive as existent, we can also conceive as nonexistent....am willing to rest the whole controversy upon it.' 1 This, in fact, is Hume's retort to the ontological argument of Descartes. It anticipates the more... | |
| Leslie Stephen - 1876 - 488 ˹éÒ
...implies a contradiction. Whatever we conceive as existent, we can also conceive as non-/ existent. There is no being, therefore, whose non-existence...implies a contradiction. Consequently, there is no being 1 « Dialogues,' ii. 390. « Ib. ii. 405. • Ib. ii. 407. ' Ib. ii. 432. whose existence is demonstrable.... | |
| 1880 - 612 ˹éÒ
...contrary implies a contradiction. There is no being whose noneiistence implies a contradiction ; hence there is no being whose existence is demonstrable....am willing to rest the whole controversy upon it.' Nothing, then, remains to be discussed but the possibility of inferring from the physical universe... | |
| Leslie Stephen - 1881 - 490 ˹éÒ
...contrary implies a contradiction. Nothing that is distinctly conceivable implies a contradiction. Whatever we conceive as existent, we can also conceive as nonexistent....implies a contradiction. Consequently, there is no being 1 'Dialogues,' ii. 390. " Ib. ii. 405. 3 Ib. ii. 407. 4 Ib. ii. 432. whose existence is demonstrable.... | |
| David Hume - 1882 - 524 ˹éÒ
...contradiction. Whatevei we conceive as existent, we can also conceive as non-existent. There is 1i0 being, therefore, whose non-existence implies a contradiction....decisive, and am willing to rest the whole controversy iipon it. It is pretended that the Deity is a necessarily-existent being ; and this necessity of his... | |
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