 ... the sciences capable of demonstration; wherein I doubt not but from self-evident propositions, by necessary consequences as incontestable as those in mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out to any one that will apply himself...  An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - Page 112by John Locke - 1805 - 510 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Jacob Gould Schurman - Ethics - 1887 - 292 pages
...in mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out to anyone that will apply himself with the same indifferency and attention to the one as he does to the other of these sciences." What, then, are these " self-evident propositions" which constitute the foundations of our duty and... | |
 | James McCosh - Philosophy - 1887 - 346 pages
...those in mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out to any one that will apply with the same indifferency and attention to the one as he does to the other of these sciences " (IV., 3). The language here employed leads me to consider — The Idea of Necessity. — He is often... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1890 - 240 pages
...mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out, to any one that will apply himself with the same indifferency and attention to the one...well as those of number and extension : and I cannot see why they should not also be capable of demonstration, if due methods were thought on to examine... | |
 | John Locke - Philosophy - 1892 - 572 pages
...that will apply himself with the same indifferency and attention to the one as he does to the othe> of these sciences. The relation of other modes may...perceived, as well as those of number and extension : aud I cannot see why they should not also be capable of demonstration if due methods were thought... | |
 | Benjamin Chapman Burt - Philosophy - 1892 - 382 pages
...in mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out to any one that will apply himself with the same indifferency and attention to the one as he does to the other of those sciences. Where there is no property, there is no injustice, is a proposition as certain as any... | |
 | John Locke - Philosophy - 1892 - 566 pages
...in mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out to any one that will apply himself with the same indifferency and attention to the one as he does to the othe' of these sciences. The relation of other modes may certainly be perceived, as well as those of... | |
 | Frederick Ryland - Ethics - 1893 - 266 pages
...in mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out, to anyone that will apply himself with the same indifferency and attention to the one as he does to the other of these sciences." (Essay, bk. iv., chap, iii., §18.) This statement clearly places ethics on the foundcition of theology... | |
 | Frank Thilly - Ethics - 1900 - 368 pages
...in mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out to any one that will apply himself with the same indifferency and attention to the one...well as those of number and extension : and I cannot see why they should not also be capable of demonstration if due methods were thought on to examine... | |
 | Frank Thilly - Ethics - 1900 - 374 pages
...in mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out to any one that will apply himself with the same indifferency and attention to the one...well as those of number and extension : and I cannot see why they should not also be capable of demonstration if due methods were thought on to examine... | |
 | Westel Woodbury Willoughby - Justice - 1900 - 412 pages
...of right and wrong might be made out to any one that will apply himself with the same indifference and attention to the one as he does to the other of these sciences." * Spinoza went so far as to cast his ethics in the geometrical form of propositions, demonstrations,... | |
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