 | Justin Almerin Smith - 1887 - 382 oldal
...passage in' Hamilton this relieving utterance: "The sphere of our belief is much more extensive than that of our knowledge, and therefore when I deny that the infinite can be known, I am far from denying that it is, must be, and ought to be, believed." We may well thank... | |
 | John Rickaby - 1888 - 434 oldal
...to say, in the Catholic Church, belief means absolute certainty on the supreme authority of God. 5 " When I deny that the Infinite can by us be known, I am far from denying that by us it ought to be believed." (Metaphysics, Lecture ii. Appendix.) As to how we can believe the inconceivable,... | |
 | James McCosh - 1889 - 390 oldal
...will be examined (infra, p. 187, foot-note). Hamilton admits that we have a belief in the infinite : " The sphere of our belief is much more extensive than...believed. This I have indeed anxiously evinced both by reason and authority " (Metaph. Vol. n. App. p. 530). But if this faith be beyond consciousness, his... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1890 - 600 oldal
...them, in consequence of the contradictions which the attempt involves. But he expressly asserts " that the sphere of our belief is much more extensive than...that the infinite can by us be known, I am far from den; ing that by us it is, must, and ought to be believed. This I have indeed anxiously evinced, both... | |
 | William Fleming - 1890 - 458 oldal
...Philosophy, p. 325). Hamilton says (Letter to Calderwood in Appendix to Metaphysics, ii. 530): — "The sphere of our belief is much more extensive than...therefore when I deny that the Infinite can by us be knoum, I am far from denying that by us it is, must, and ought to be believed. In the order of nature,... | |
 | Francis Asbury Shoup - 1891 - 376 oldal
...perhaps he has done it, in effect, in his letter to Calderwood on the subject, in which he says : " When I deny that the Infinite can by us be known,...that by us it is, must, and ought to be, believed." That is quite sufficient, since a necessary belief is the surest of all knowing ; but it seems a pity... | |
 | Samuel James Andrews - 1898 - 396 oldal
...an agnostic ; but he also affirmed that, "through faith we apprehend what is beyond our knowledge." "When I deny that the Infinite can by us be known, I am far from denying that it must, and ought to be believed." Mansel ( " Limits of Religious Thought " ) takes in substance the... | |
 | William Leadbetter Calderwood, David Woodside - 1900 - 472 oldal
...Mansel makes so much play. " The sphere of our belief," says Sir William Hamilton in his letter, " is much more extensive than the sphere of our knowledge...that by us it is, must, and ought to be believed." To which Calderwood makes this simple and forcible rejoinder. " A belief can arise in consciousness... | |
 | William Leadbetter Calderwood, David Woodside - 1900 - 502 oldal
...Mansel makes so much play. " The sphere of our belief," says Sir William Hamilton in his letter, " is much more extensive than the sphere of our knowledge...that by us it is, must, and ought to be believed." To which Calderwood makes this simple and forcible rejoinder. " A belief can arise in consciousness... | |
 | Paul Janet, Gabriel Séailles - 1902 - 432 oldal
...his theory of belief, all that he seemed to have irrevocably taken away by his theory of knowledge. " The sphere of our belief is much more extensive than...knowledge, and therefore when I deny that the infinite can be by us known, I am far from denying that by us it is, must, and ought to be believed " (Lectures,... | |
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That the sphere of our belief is much more extensive than the sphere of our knowledge ; and, therefore, when I deny that the Infinite can by us be known, I am far from denying that by us it is, must, and ought to be believed. 
