 | David Hume - 1927 - 444 стор.
...implies a contradiction. Nothing, that is distinctly conceivable, implies a contradiction. Whatever we conceive as existent, we can also conceive as non-existent....controversy upon it. It is pretended that the Deity is a necessarily existent being; and this necessity of his existence is attempted to be explained by asserting,... | |
 | Paul K. Feyerabend, Grover Maxwell - 1966 - 530 стор.
...implies a contradiction. Nothing, that is distinctly conceivable, implies a contradiction. Whatever we conceive as existent, we can also conceive as non-existent....there is no Being, whose existence is demonstrable" [5, Part IX, p. 189]. Just what does Hume mean by the statement "Nothing is demonstrable, unless the... | |
 | Ernest Campbell Mossner - 2001 - 768 стор.
...distinctly conceivable, implies a contradictinn. Whatever we conceive as existent, we can also concetve as non-existent. There is no Being, therefore, whose...entirely decisive, and am willing to rest the whole comroversy upon it." ' After this metaphysical setback, Demea is driven to plead the common argument... | |
 | Alan Holland - 1985 - 364 стор.
...implies a contradiction. Nothing, that is distinctly conceivable, implies a contradiction. Whatever we conceive as existent, we can also conceive as non-existent....therefore, whose non-existence implies a contradiction. This over-rated argument confuses the plain truth that you cannot consistently reject the conclusion... | |
 | Diogenes Allen - 1985 - 310 стор.
...two most important ones. Hume claims that "necessary" cannot be properly used of a being. "Whatever we conceive as existent, we can also conceive as nonexistent....therefore, whose nonexistence implies a contradiction." Thus there can be no necessary being, a being whose nonexistence implies a contradiction. Hume's Cleanthes... | |
 | Robert Merrihew Adams - 1987 - 283 стор.
...logically necessary existence. Nothing, that is distinctly conceivable, implies a contradiction. Whatever we conceive as existent, we can also conceive as non-existent....no Being, therefore, whose non-existence implies a contradiction.1 The adverb 'distinctly' must do quite a lot of work if the first premise of this argument... | |
 | Diogenes Allen - 1989 - 256 стор.
...Hume claims that "necessary" cannot be 66 The Book of Nature properly applied to a being. "Whatever we conceive as existent, we can also conceive as non-existent....therefore, whose nonexistence implies a contradiction." ' That is, we may say of whatever actually exists that it might not have existed. There is no contradiction... | |
 | David Hume, Eric Steinberg - 1993 - 170 стор.
...implies a contradiction. Nothing, that is distinctly conceivable, implies a contradiction. Whatever we conceive as existent, we can also conceive as non-existent....there is no Being, whose existence is demonstrable."] and seems the most obvious and familiar Sentiment on that Subject; but, though all Inferences concerning... | |
 | Gerard J. Hughes - 1995 - 236 стор.
...contradiction. Nothing, that is directly conceivable, implies a contradiction. Whatever we conceive of as existent, we can also conceive as non-existent....there is no being, whose existence is demonstrable. (Dialogues, IX) We have here the standard Humean contrast between experience, in which things are either... | |
 | David Hume, Richard H. Popkin - 1998 - 158 стор.
...contrary implies a contradiction. Nothing that is distinctly conceivable implies a contradiction. Whatever we conceive as existent, we can also conceive as non-existent....controversy upon it. It is pretended that the Deity is a necessarily existent being; and this necessity of his existence is attempted to be explained by asserting... | |
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Whatever we conceive as existent, we can also conceive as nonexistent. There is no being, therefore, whose nonexistence implies a contradiction. Consequently there is no being whose existence is demonstrable. I propose this argument as entirely decisive,... 
