 | Thomas Reid - 1788 - 518 pages
...diftinct conception, can be only in beings that have underftanding and will. Power to produce any effect implies power not to produce it. We can conceive no...rather than the other, in a being that has no will. Whatever is the effect of active power muft be fomething that is contingent. Contingent exiftence is... | |
 | Thomas Reid - Philosophy - 1803 - 734 pages
...diftinct conception, can be only in beings that have underftanding and will. Power to produce any eflect implies power not to produce it. We can conceive no...rather than the other, in a being that has no will. Whatever is the effect of active power muft be fomething.that is contingent. Contingent exiftence is... | |
 | English literature - 1806 - 740 pages
...writers admit, is utterly in-" Compatible with univerfal necefTity. " Power, to produce any eflfefl, fjys Dr. Reid, implies power not to produce it. We can conceive no way in which power may he determined to one of thefe rather than the other, in a being that has no will ;" and the fame notion... | |
 | 1806 - 738 pages
...writers admit, is utterly incompatible with univerfal neceflity. " Power, to produce any effett, fays Dr. Reid, implies power not, to produce it. We can conceive no way in which power may he determined to one of thefe rather than the other, in a being' that lias no will ;" and the fame... | |
 | Thomas Reid - Philosophy - 1822 - 322 pages
...distinct conception, can be only in beings that have understanding and will. Power to produce any effect implies power not to produce it. We can conceive no way in which power may be determined to one of these rather than the other, in a being that has no will. Whatever is the effect of active power must... | |
 | Thomas Reid - Act (Philosophy). - 1827 - 706 pages
...distinct conception, can be only in beings that have understanding and will. Power to produce any effect implies power not to produce it. We can conceive no way in which power may be determined to one of these rather than the other, in a being that has no will. Whatever is the effect of active power must... | |
 | Thomas Reid - Philosophy - 1863 - 552 pages
...distinct conception, can be only in beings that have understanding and will. Power to produce any effect, implies power not to produce it. We can conceive no way in which power may be determined to one of these rather than the other, in a !>eiiig that has no will. Whatever is the effect of active power,... | |
 | John Rickaby - First philosophy - 1890 - 424 pages
...any effect implies power not to produce [a confusion between power in general and power of choice] ; we can conceive no way in which power may be determined to one of these rather than to another in a Being that has no will." " We are unable to conceive any active power... | |
 | Alan Donagan - History - 1994 - 332 pages
...follows a line of thought expressed by Thomas Reid when he wrote that "Power to produce any effect implies power not to produce it. We can conceive no way in which power may be determined to one of these rather than another, in a being that has no will."2 The original version of this paper was presented... | |
 | Rowland Stout - Art - 2005 - 180 pages
...arguing that only beings with a will have active power properly understood: "Power to produce an effect, implies power not to produce it. We can conceive no way in which power may be determined to one of these rather than the other, in a being that has no will" (Essays on the Active Powers: essay 1, ch.... | |
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... and will. Power to produce any effect implies power not to produce it. We can conceive no way in which power may be determined to one of these rather than the other, in a being that has no will. 