 | Alvar Ellegård - 1990 - 400 стор.
...matter itself was an ultimate datum. The utmost that Hume was prepared to grant in the way of Design was that "the cause or causes of order in the universe probably bear some remote analogy to human intelligence."7) That proposition, however, he declared to be "somewhat ambiguous, undefined, and incapable... | |
 | John Hedley Brooke - 1991 - 450 стор.
...objects, their ultimate origin need not lie in a cause of infinite power. And if Hume did finally allow that "the cause or causes of order in the universe...probably bear some remote analogy to human intelligence," it was still a limited concession. For the implication was that such a proposition "affords no inference... | |
 | Peter Minowitz - 1993 - 376 стор.
...Concerning Natural Religion, Cleanthes explains that the "whole of natural theology" resolves into the proposition that "the cause or causes of order in...probably bear some remote analogy to human intelligence" (XII, p. 88). Cf . ICHU, XI, p. 154; and Blumenberg, p. 159. 17. The biblical God also differs from... | |
 | Richard Henry Popkin - 1993 - 404 стор.
...Sons, 1947), pt. 8, pp. 182ff. :' Enquiry, sec. XI. " Ibid., p. 146. " Dialogues, pt. 1, pp. 134-35. "that the cause or causes of order in the universe probably bear some remote analogy to human intelligence,"21 is so restricted in its interpretation as to leave no room for expecting any special... | |
 | Paul Gottfried - 1995 - 142 стор.
...into the mouth of Philo, one of the partners in the conversation: If the whole of natural theology ... resolves itself into one simple, though somewhat ambiguous,...extension, variation, or more particular explication . . . with any appearance of probability . . . what can the most inquisitive, contemplative, and religious... | |
 | R. Douglas Geivett - 1995 - 294 стор.
...assume was speaking for Hume) was undecided about this matter. If the whole of natural theology . . . resolves itself into one simple, though somewhat ambiguous,...probably bear some remote analogy to human intelligence . . . what can the most inquistive, contemplative, and religious man do more than give a plain, philosophical... | |
 | Wayne P. Pomerleau - 1997 - 566 стор.
...Philo reduces the rational truth of philosophical religion to a single cautiously worded assertion, that the cause or causes of order in the universe...probably bear some remote analogy to human intelligence. Our faith may carry us beyond this extremely limited finding of reason; and certainly we can hope that... | |
 | David Hume, Richard H. Popkin - 1998 - 158 стор.
...argue at all concerning them, that their causes have a proportional analogy." What follows from this is "one simple, though somewhat ambiguous, at least undefined...some remote analogy to human intelligence. " If this appears out of character with what has gone before, at first sight Philo's almost-final words appear... | |
 | Ben-Ami Scharfstein - 1998 - 710 стор.
...Religion. He there suggests that natural theology resolves itself into the simple, somewhat ambiguous proposition "that the cause or causes of order in...probably bear some remote analogy to human intelligence" (Dialogues concerning Natural Religion, ed. Kemp Smith, p. 227). had a corresponding impression, while... | |
 | Terence J. Martin - 1998 - 388 стор.
...questions. It is easy. after all. to acknowledge the central tenet of philosophical theism t"that the causes of order in the universe probably bear some remote analogy to human intelligence"). especially if it bears no effect on human life 1XIL 227). Very little is at stake in such an admission.... | |
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If the whole of Natural Theology, as jome people seem to maintain, resolves itself into one simple, though somewhat ambiguous, at least undefined proposition, That the cause or causes of order in the universe probably bear some remote analogy to human... 
