But there are several first indemonstrable principles. From Wordnik.com. [The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas] Reference
“A past evolution is undeniable, a present evolution indemonstrable.”. From Wordnik.com. [Science, Just Science! « UDreamOfJanie] Reference
For Aristotle, the status of LNC as a first, indemonstrable principle is obvious. From Wordnik.com. [Contradiction] Reference
On the other hand the definition of immediates is an indemonstrable positing of essential nature. From Wordnik.com. [Posterior Analytics] Reference
The only appropriate procedure was de - duction from necessary and indemonstrable first prin - ciples. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
The logical consequence of admitting either theory would be that the problem was simply indemonstrable. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860] Reference
Now there cannot be genuinely true science if an indemonstrable first principle is not properly understood. From Wordnik.com. [Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas] Reference
Consequently a proof even from true, indemonstrable, and immediate premisses does not constitute knowledge. From Wordnik.com. [Posterior Analytics] Reference
… IDers, time and time again, hoist themselves royally by hitching themselves to the indemonstrable low probability argument. From Wordnik.com. [David Heddle's take on the Fine-Tuning Argument] Reference
In knowledge of this kind, we are certain of conclusions which can be demonstrated from indemonstrable and universal principles. From Wordnik.com. [Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas] Reference
He had his doubts about Leibniz and Spinoza, because their systems rested upon questionable and indemonstrable first principles. From Wordnik.com. [August Wilhelm Rehberg] Reference
Part of the issue rests on the requirement that first principles, which assert primary, indemonstrable attributes of their subjects, be necessary truths. From Wordnik.com. [Medieval Theories of Demonstration] Reference
Of these five principles, only POC is indemonstrable in the sense that the truth of the principle cannot be proved to follow from a formal deductive inference. From Wordnik.com. [Christian Wolff] Reference
In vain is it proclaimed that they lead back only to the point of ignorance from which they started; in vain is it demonstrated that certain problems are indemonstrable. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
Thus, in speculative matters, the indemonstrable principles are not the habit itself whereby we hold those principles, but are the principles the habit of which we possess. From Wordnik.com. [The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas] Reference
It is not everything that can be proved, otherwise the chain of proof would be endless; you must begin somewhere, and you must start with things admitted but indemonstrable. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
Nor are they any concern of rational intuition-by rational intuition I mean an originative source of scientific knowledge-nor of indemonstrable knowledge, which is the grasping of the immediate premiss. From Wordnik.com. [Posterior Analytics] Reference
Strictly speaking, Wolff believes that POC is the only indemonstrable self-evident truth and that all true propositions can in theory be demonstrated to be true by means of a deductively sound argument. From Wordnik.com. [Christian Wolff] Reference
(The necessity of this is obvious; for since we must know the prior premisses from which the demonstration is drawn, and since the regress must end in immediate truths, those truths must be indemonstrable.). From Wordnik.com. [Posterior Analytics] Reference
Moreover, this cause is either identical with the essential nature of the thing or distinct from it; and if its cause is distinct from it, the essential nature of the thing is either demonstrable or indemonstrable. From Wordnik.com. [Posterior Analytics] Reference
Wherefore in speculative matters a demonstrative science is said to exercise judgment, in so far as it judges the truth of the results of research by tracing those results back to the first indemonstrable principles. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
In the "Analytica Posteriora" he takes up the study of demonstration and of indemonstrable first principles. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference
For instance, the whole of Arithmetic and Algebra has been shown to require three indefinable notions and five indemonstrable propositions. From Wordnik.com. [Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays] Reference
"" The history of organic life is indemonstrable; we cannot prove a whole lot in evolutionary biology, and our findings will always be hypothesis. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
It is an indemonstrable assumption that oaks and beeches in the days of Socrates and Cicero were not slightly better trees than the oaks and beeches of to-day. From Wordnik.com. [The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth] Reference
But that all dreams are to be interpreted bisexually, seems to me to be a generalization as indemonstrable as it is improbable, which I should not like to support. From Wordnik.com. [Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners] Reference
Aristotle foregrounded the meaning of arche as the element or principle of a Thing, which although indemonstrable and intangible in Itself, provides the conditions of the possibility of that Thing. From Wordnik.com. ["MAIN" via Steve in Google Reader] Reference
In first philosophy, as in mathematics, an axiom is both indemonstrable and indispensable; without LNC, “a is. From Wordnik.com. [Contradiction] Reference
Posited as the hidden capstone for Kant's analytic edifice, however, this schematism -- troped with such revealing poignancy as a "monogram" -- must perforce remain inscrutable and indemonstrable. (. From Wordnik.com. [Bringing About the Past] Reference
What distinguishes the two forms of opposition is a second indemonstrable principle, the law of excluded middle (LEM): “Of any one subject, one thing must be either asserted or denied” (Metaphysics. From Wordnik.com. [Contradiction] Reference
One of the accounts they offer of validity is that an argument is valid if, through the use of certain ground rules (themata), it is possible to reduce it to one of the five indemonstrable forms (Diog. From Wordnik.com. [Stoicism] Reference
The role of LNC as the basic, indemonstrable. From Wordnik.com. [Contradiction] Reference
3) While your version of ID requires an indemonstrable metaphysical postulate of free will, the rest of science (and my arguments here) require neither that free will exists or does not exist. From Wordnik.com. [Aiguy's Computer] Reference
That is patently indemonstrable. From Wordnik.com. [From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War] Reference
The actual fact, of course, is indemonstrable. From Wordnik.com. [Miracles and Supernatural Religion] Reference
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