United States or Malaysia ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness. For where there is no consciousness there is no finality, finality presupposing a purpose. And, as we shall see, faith in God is based simply upon the vital need of giving finality to existence, of making it answer to a purpose.
"Then I would have to ask you to step into the water and swim to shore while I do my own paddling and keep down expenses." "Presupposing, of course, that you own the canoe." "It is too bad it is so dark," she retorted impatiently, "or you would know that a revolver is pointed straight at you this very moment." Kendrick laughed in pure enjoyment of the situation.
It will be better, therefore, if we wish to analyse the causation of memory by something not presupposing memory, to take some other instance than that of a question about "this morning." Let us take the case of coming into a familiar room where something has been changed say a new picture hung on the wall.
'Then it was this that led her to consent. 'Surely that is presupposing too much, my dear Eldon, said the vicar gently. 'No, not more than I know to be true. I could not say that to anyone but you; you must understand me. The girl is being cheated into marrying that fellow. Of her own free will she could not do it. This is one of numberless lies.
Well then a further objection is raised let us admit that Scripture is perfect because resting on an endless unbroken tradition; but must we then not admit that texts evidently presupposing the view of duality, as e.g. 'Let him who desires the heavenly world offer the Jyotishtoma-sacrifice' are liable to refutation? True, we reply.
"That brings us to the disappearance of the switching-engine again. No one man made off with that, single-handed, Mac." "Hardly." "It was this gang we are presupposing the gang that has been stealing lumber and lime and other material by the car-load." "Well?" "I believe we'll get to the bottom of all the looting on this switching-engine business. They have overdone it this time.
By possession thus taken, there was only a disputable claim advanced, which might be peaceably and regularly decided, without insult and without force; and, if the Spaniards had complained at the British court, their reasons would have been heard, and all injuries redressed; but that, by presupposing the justice of their own title, and having recourse to arms, without any previous notice or remonstrance, they had violated the peace, and insulted the British government; and, therefore, it was expected, that satisfaction should be made by publick disavowal, and immediate restitution.
This principle is not based merely upon that of contradiction; for, in addition to the relation between two contradictory predicates, it regards everything as standing in a relation to the sum of possibilities, as the sum total of all predicates of things, and, while presupposing this sum as an a priori condition, presents to the mind everything as receiving the possibility of its individual existence from the relation it bears to, and the share it possesses in, the aforesaid sum of possibilities.* The principle of complete determination relates the content and not to the logical form.
A code of law is not a spasmodic effort of gigantic talent in any one man or any one generation; it is a slow growth of accidents and occasions expanding with civilization; dependent upon time as a multiform element in its development; and presupposing often a concurrent growth of analogous cases towards the completion of its system.
This was presupposing the existence of a spirit in Man; but who could be found to truly and reasonably hold that the mysterious high and soaring thoughts of Man were one and the same thing as mere animalism? they were too obviously of another nature to the merely bovine, to the solids of the flesh: for one thing, they were free of the law of gravity which so entirely overrules the rest of Nature they must therefore come to their destiny in another world, another condition of consciousness.
Word Of The Day