Saint Thomas Aquinas on the Existence of God
... existence , since existence is grasped originally by judgment and not by conceptualization . The argument patently cannot fit into the framework of On Being and Essence , for it is not explaining accidentally possessed existence through ...
The Function of Religion in Man's Struggle for Existence
... existence , of all unitary individu- ality ? Men began to wonder and ques- tion , and the pre - Kantian primacy of the theoretical reason fell into disrepute . Men like Rousseau and Kant and Fichte and Schopenhauer lifted their voices ...
The Non-existence of God
... existence as a perfection , i.e. as a property which the greatest conceivable being would have . And , he continues , Kant has shown that existence is not a property . Consequently , this version of the argument fails . However ...
Existence
Since this is the simplistic, empirical approach while studying existence. Yet what exactly is existence itself? How or where does existence exist? Is existence limited to the human existence, human cognition, or the humankind?
The Works of Aurelius Augustine: Writings in connection with the Manichaean heresy, translated by Richard Stothert. 1872
... existence tend towards order ; and in attaining order they attain existence , as far as that is possible to a creature . For order reduces to a certain uniformity that which it arranges ; and existence is nothing else than being one ...
Can Miracles be proved possible? Verbatim report of the ... debate between ... C. Bradlaugh&W. R. Browne, etc
... existence was less than it is now . I do not mean that , because I cannot conceive it , therefore it is not true ... existence or more than one existence ? It involves the dealing with the existence which our friend calls God , and ...
Library of Universal Literature: First principles
... existence conceivable , it would not in any sense be an explanation of the Universe . No one will say that the existence of an object at the present moment is made easier to understand by the dis- covery that it existed an hour ago ...
The Symphony of Existence
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The Philosophy of Reflection
... existence as thought . Accord- Self - contradic- ingly , in the phrase unknowable existence , one of the terms is a word without a meaning , a word not stand- ing for a thought or a thing . tory nature of Things - in- themselves . But ...
A Study of Religion, Its Sources and Contents
... existence only and not of action , it is curious that Schopenhauer should find no better means of claiming it for a man's ' whole existence ' than by calling that existence ' his free doing ' ( seine freie That ) . His slip into such a ...
The faith of an agnostic; or, First essays in rationalism, by George Forester
... existence necessarily means existence without a beginning ; and to form a conception of self - existence is to form a conception of existence without a beginning . Now , by no mental effort can we do this . To conceive existence through ...
Reports of Cases at Law and in Equity Determined by the Supreme Court of the State of Iowa
... existence of the part- nership . We will presume that it was admitted for the purpose for which it is competent . III . It is insisted that the evidence , in the first case , tending to show that plaintiffs knew of the existence of the ...
California. Court of Appeal (4th Appellate District). Division 2. Records and Briefs
... existence of the presumed fact without denying the existence of the basic fact . 2 Jefferson , Cal . Evidence Benchbook ( 2d ed . 1982 ) section 46.2 , pp . 1689-1691 . Here , the basic fact , the minor's injury , is clearly present ...
Gai Institutiones
... existence ; negative elements are the absence of any circumstance which could extinguish an existent right or dismiss it into non - existence . Exceptio , on the contrary , denotes something external to the sphere of the conditions of ...
The Theistic Argument as Affected by Recent Theories
... existence of a Deity . " Thus the moral nature of man is not made use of as furnishing illustration of the attributes of a being whose existence has been already inferred from other sources , but is exclusively appealed to in proof of ...
Messiah Pulpit
... existence of these moral evils seemed to increase . You will find pas- sages in the early part of the Old Testament in which God is represented as frankly ... existence as for the existence of the evils which he was supposed to 4.
Pragmatism and Four Essays from the Meaning of Truth
... existence of the object- that our account of truth breaks down , and that our crit- ics have driven us from the field . Altho in various places in this volume I try to refute the slanderous charge that we deny real existence , I will ...
Dogmatic Theology
... existence . Moreover , the doctrine of re - incarnation rests upon purely theoretical assertion . No evidence of its truth has ever been dis- covered . Furthermore , all memory of previous incar- nations is wanting , and the principles ...
(vol. I-II) Revolutionary and subversive movements abroad and at home
... existence . The serf , in the period of serfdom , raised himself to membership in the commune , just as the petty bourgeois , under the yoke of feudal absolutism , managed to develop into a bour- geois . The modern laborer , on the ...