| 1861 - 736 oldal
...the existence of something unconditioned beyond the sphere of all comprehensible reality." And again, "The sphere of our belief is much more extensive than...and, therefore, when I deny that the Infinite can, by UB, be known, I am far from denying that by us it is, must, and ought to be, believed. This I have... | |
| Sir William Hamilton - 1861 - 584 oldal
...be, an object of belief, but cot of knowledge. This consideration obviates many of your objections. The sphere of our belief is much more extensive than...and, therefore, when I deny that the Infinite can by ns be known, I am far from denying that by us it is, must, and ought to be, believed. This I have indeed... | |
| Sir William Hamilton - 1862 - 584 oldal
...be, an object of belief, but not of knowledge. This consideration obviates many of your objections. The sphere of our belief is much more extensive than...from denying that by us it is, must, and ought to bo, believed. This I have indeed anxiously evinced, both by reasoning and authority. When, therefore,... | |
| 1865 - 782 oldal
...in thought; the Infinite beyond thought being, it may be, an object of belief, but not of knowledge The sphere of our belief is much more extensive than...that by us it is, must, and ought to be believed. When, therefore, you maintain that in denying to man any positive cognizance of the Infinite I virtually... | |
| Sir William Hamilton - 1865 - 588 oldal
...object of belief, but not of knowledge. This consideration obviates many of your objections. 2°, That the sphere of our belief is much more extensive than...by us be known, I am far from denying that by us it a Cf. Discussions, p. 12 et seq.—'Eit. is, must, and ought to be, believed. This I have indeed anxibusly... | |
| David Masson - 1865 - 432 oldal
...Sir " William Hamilton, is much more extensive " than the sphere of our knowledge ; and there" fore, when I deny that the infinite can by us " be known,...denying that by us " it is, must, and ought to be, believed."1 Now I am pretty sure that I express the general feeling of all who are acquainted with... | |
| James McCosh - 1865 - 522 oldal
...will be examined (infra, p. !209, footnote). Hamilton admits that we have a belief in the infinite : " The sphere of our belief is much more extensive than...our knowledge, and therefore when I deny that the infniite can by us be known, I am far from denying that by us it is, must, and ought to be believed.... | |
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1865 - 602 oldal
...by the boy, met with a more apt and striking simile. Sir William Hamilton distinctly teaches that " the sphere of our belief is much more extensive than the sphere of our knowledge,"^ and that, therefore, though he denies that the Infinite can be known, still " it must and ought to be believed."... | |
| Henry Boynton Smith, James Manning Sherwood - 1866 - 686 oldal
...Hamilton is brought back under the name of belief;" as when the latter says (Letter to Calderwood), that "the sphere of our belief is much more extensive than...that by us it is, must, and ought to be, believed." And this is the same Infinite, of which he says, that it expresses a mere " impotence of the mind,"... | |
| |