Siris: A Chain of Philosophical Reflexions and Inquiries Concerning the Virtues of Tar Water ...Dublin printed, London reprinted, for W. Innys & C. Hitch, & C. Davis, 1744 - 174 pages |
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The one placed body first in the order of beings , and made the faculty of think .
ing depend thereupon , supposing that the principles of all things are corporeal :
that body most really or principally exists , and all other things in a secondary ...
The one placed body first in the order of beings , and made the faculty of think .
ing depend thereupon , supposing that the principles of all things are corporeal :
that body most really or principally exists , and all other things in a secondary ...
Page 151
cording to Aristotle , because a thing is , it must actually exist . This is evident from
the eighth book of his Metaphysics , where he animadverts on the Megaric
philosophers , as not admitting a possible existence distinct from the actual : from
...
cording to Aristotle , because a thing is , it must actually exist . This is evident from
the eighth book of his Metaphysics , where he animadverts on the Megaric
philosophers , as not admitting a possible existence distinct from the actual : from
...
Page 154
Plato obferves that we dreamı , as it were , when we think of place , and believe it
necessary , that whatever exists should exist in some place . Which place or
space ( ) he also obferves is μετ ' αναρθησίας απλον , that is to be felt as darkness
is ...
Plato obferves that we dreamı , as it were , when we think of place , and believe it
necessary , that whatever exists should exist in some place . Which place or
space ( ) he also obferves is μετ ' αναρθησίας απλον , that is to be felt as darkness
is ...
Page 167
... prescinded even fromentity to which it was thought prior and superior ; and is
therefore by the Platonics styled super - essential , And in the Parmenides it is
said , to èv doth not exist ; which might seem to imply a negation of the divine
being .
... prescinded even fromentity to which it was thought prior and superior ; and is
therefore by the Platonics styled super - essential , And in the Parmenides it is
said , to èv doth not exist ; which might seem to imply a negation of the divine
being .
Page 169
In either sense there is no atheism , so long as mind is admitted to preside and
direct the animal ; and so long as the unum or Tó ' qv is supposed not to exist
without mind ( a ) . So that neither Heraclitus nor Parmenides , nor Pythagoras ,
nor ...
In either sense there is no atheism , so long as mind is admitted to preside and
direct the animal ; and so long as the unum or Tó ' qv is supposed not to exist
without mind ( a ) . So that neither Heraclitus nor Parmenides , nor Pythagoras ,
nor ...
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