 | Chana B. Cox - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 302 pages
...a free will; or any free but free from being hindered by opposition; I should not say he were in an error, but that his words were without meaning; that is to say, absurd. (Leviathan, 5) 20. Technically, for Hobbes, there would be no wives and children in this sense. Everyone... | |
 | Howard Schweber - Philosophy - 2007 - 15 pages
...judgement of their senses by reason." (De Homine, quoted and translated in Tuck, 2002: xxi.) were in an error, but that his words were without meaning; that is to say, absurd. (Hobbes [1642], 1998: 34.) This notion of "absurdity," a form of error unique to abstract propositions,... | |
 | Paul Russell - Philosophy - 2008 - 442 pages
...a free-will; or any free, but free from being hindered by opposition, I should not say here were an error; but that his words were without meaning, that is to say, absurd." According to Hobbes, once we engage in "senseless speech" about incorporeal beings or spirits, we fall... | |
 | Samantha Frost - Philosophy - 2008 - 240 pages
...Afree-Will; or any Free, but free from being hindred by opposition, I should not say he were in an Errour; but that his words were without meaning; that is to say, Absurd" (L 5:113). It is to counter such "absurdities" that Hobbes presses his argument that people are thinking-bodies... | |
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And therefore if a man should talk to me of a round quadrangle, or accidents of bread in cheese, or immaterial substances, or of a free subject, a free will, or any free but free from being hindered by opposition, I should not say he were in an error... 
