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To prove the possibility of the Imperative of morality is more difficult. As categorical, it presupposes nothing else to rest its necessity upon; while by way of experience, it can never be made out to be more than a prudential precept i.e., a pragmatic or hypothetic principle. Its possibility must therefore be established
He had a horrible conviction that behind all this hypothetic statement there was a knowledge of some actual change in Mary's feeling. "Of course I know it might easily be all up with me," he said, in a troubled voice. "If she is beginning to compare " He broke off, not liking to betray all he felt, and then said, by the help of a little bitterness, "But I thought you were friendly to me."
Would they have England suppose that they are here comparing the actual Oxford with some possible hypothetic or imaginable Oxford, with some ideal case, that is to say, about which great discussions would arise as to its feasibility, or that they are comparing it with some known standard of discipline actually realized and sustained for generations, in Leipsic, suppose, or Edinburgh, or Leyden, or Salamanca?
They were after us with hounds! O God! after us with hounds! Either after us, or about to be, was the hypothetic form of my conjecture. I could proceed no farther upon our path till I had become satisfied. Leaving Aurore among the palmettoes. I ran directly forward to the fence, which was also the boundary of the woods.
'I have never doubted, a recent Oxford writer says, that truth is universal and single and timeless, a single content or significance, one and whole and complete. Advance in thinking, in the hegelian universe, has, in short, to proceed by the apodictic words must be rather than by those inferior hypothetic words may be, which are all that empiricists can use.
Comet lank and melancholic Orbit shocking parabolic Seen for a little in the sky Of the world of sympathy Seldom failing when predicted, Coming most when most restricted, Dragging a nebulous tail with thee Of hypothetic vagrancy Of vagrants large, and vagrants small, Vagrants scarce visible at all! Matchless oracle of woe! Anarchy in embryo! Strange antipodes of bliss! Parody on happiness!
By a singular perversity, it seemed to him that every one of those passing "affections" he too, alas! at times was for ever trying to be, to assert ITSELF, to maintain its isolated and petty self, by a kind of practical lie in things; although through every incident of its hypothetic existence it had protested that its proper function was to die.
By a singular perversity, it seemed to him that every one of those passing "affections" he too, alas! at times was for ever trying to be, to assert itself, to maintain its isolated and petty self, by a kind of practical lie in things; although through every incident of its hypothetic existence it had protested that its proper function was to die.
It was not that she looked upon him as a possible lover she had sense enough to know that almost any man might be that he was a hypothetic lover, and in view of the assumption it behooved her to give careful observation to everything in him, herself, or others, which might bear upon the ensuing argument.
He was acting on hypothetic grounds, but this was the sort of action that had the keenest interest for his diplomatic mind. From a combination of general knowledge concerning Savonarola's purposes with diligently observed details he had framed a conjecture which he was about to verify by this visit to San Marco.
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