 | 1858 - 544 דפים
...possibility of history is not required to hold either to Predestination or Free-Will, only to admit that, when we perform an action, we perform it in...some motive or motives ; that those motives are the result of some antecedents; and that therefore, if we were acquainted with the whole of the antecedents... | |
 | 1858 - 592 דפים
...all human actions depend on motives, and that these motives are the result of antecedents ; and that if we were acquainted with the whole of the antecedents,...with all the laws of their movements, we could with certainty predict the whole of their immediate results ; or, as it is somewhat differently stated a... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1858 - 794 דפים
...but can by no means determine what that part shall be." In a subsequent passage (p. 17) he says, " When we perform an action, we perform it in consequence of some motive or motives ; that these motives are the results of some antecedents; and that, therefore, if we were acquainted with... | |
 | 1858 - 770 דפים
...Calvinistic. Both hypotheses are rejected, and the conclusion he comes to is — "That when we perform some action, we perform it in consequence of some motive or motives ; that these motives are the result of some antecedents, and that, therefore, if we were acquainted with the... | |
 | 1858 - 798 דפים
...Calvinistic. Both hypotheses are rejected, and the conclusion he comes to is — "That when we perform some action, we perform it in consequence of some motive or motives ; that these motives are the result of some antecedente, and that, therefore, if we were acquainted with the... | |
 | 1859 - 806 דפים
...only positions which, in thin stage of the inquiry, I shall expect him to concede, are the following : That when we perform an action we perform it in consequence...acquainted with the whole of the antecedents, and with all tho laws of their movements, we could with unerring certainty predict the whole of their immediate... | |
 | 1859 - 450 דפים
...expects, on the other hand, at this stage of the inquiry, the concession of the following positions : That, when we perform an action, we perform it in...results of some antecedents ; and that, therefore, if we could become acquainted with the whole of the antecedents, and with all the laws of their movements,... | |
 | William Gresley - 1861 - 424 דפים
...what that part shall be." Again, he requires his readers to concede the following positions : — " That, when we perform an action, we perform it in...some motive or motives ; that those motives are the result of some antecedents ; and that, therefore, if we were acquainted with the whole of these antecedents,... | |
 | 1862 - 978 דפים
...of Borne motive or motives ; these motives are the result of some antecedent ; and therefore, i/"we were acquainted with the whole of the antecedents,...unerring certainty predict the whole of their immediate reeults."t This is an evident truism. For what is the meaning of knowing the " laws of the movements... | |
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That when we perform an action, we perform it in consequence of some motive or motives ; that those motives are the results of some antecedents ; and that, therefore, if we are acquainted with the whole of the antecedents, and with all the laws of their... 
