Basic Problems of Philosophy: Selected ReadingsDaniel J. Bronstein, Yervant Hovhannes Krikorian, Philip Paul Wiener |
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... cause every act of man's will , and every desire , and inclination pro- ceedeth from some cause , and that from another cause , in a con- tinual chain , whose first link is in the hand of God the first of all causes , proceed from ...
... cause every act of man's will , and every desire , and inclination pro- ceedeth from some cause , and that from another cause , in a con- tinual chain , whose first link is in the hand of God the first of all causes , proceed from ...
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... cause , and consequently can never be discovered in it . Motion in the second Billiard - ball is a quite distinct ... cause and effect , which binds them together , and renders it impossible that any other effect could result from the ...
... cause , and consequently can never be discovered in it . Motion in the second Billiard - ball is a quite distinct ... cause and effect , which binds them together , and renders it impossible that any other effect could result from the ...
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... cause . In the world of sense we find there is an order of efficient causes . There is no case known ( neither is it , indeed , possible ) in which a thing is found to be the efficient cause of itself ; for so it would be prior to ...
... cause . In the world of sense we find there is an order of efficient causes . There is no case known ( neither is it , indeed , possible ) in which a thing is found to be the efficient cause of itself ; for so it would be prior to ...
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CHAPTER | 1 |
On the Improvement of the Understanding Benedict | 30 |
INTRODUCTION | 68 |
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