 | Aloysius Martinich - Philosophers - 2005 - 292 pages
...ordered the matter to form the universe. Concerning God's infiniteness, Hobbes has a clear position: Whatsoever we imagine is finite. Therefore there is no idea or conception of anything we call infinite. No man can have in his mind an image of infinite magnitude, nor conceive... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - History - 2005 - 404 pages
...faculties may be improved to such a height as to distinguish men from all other living creatures. 12. Whatsoever we imagine is finite. Therefore there is no idea or conception of anything we call infinite. 2 No man can have in his mind an image of infinite magnitude, nor conceive... | |
 | Literary Criticism - 2007 - 240 pages
...may be improved to such a height, as to distinguish men from all other living creatures. [Infinite] Whatsoever we imagine is finite. Therefore there is...idea, or conception of any thing we call infinite. . . . When we say any thing is infinite, we signify only, that we are not able to conceive the ends,... | |
 | Paul Russell - Philosophy - 2008 - 442 pages
...his claim that we have no image or conception of God, and so he is incomprehensible to us. Whatever we imagine is finite. Therefore there is no idea or conception of anything we call infinite. No man can have in his mind an image of infinite magnitude, nor conceive... | |
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Whatsoever we imagine is finite. Therefore there is no idea or conception of anything we call infinite. No man can have in his mind an image of infinite magnitude nor conceive infinite swiftness, infinite time, or infinite force, or infinite power. When... 
