 | 1810 - 576 pages
...contradiction in terms, as there must be space in the partition itself; which is to suppose it parted, and not parted, at the same time. The immensity, or omnipresence of God, is no more a division of his ьп!>м •!!>:•• into parts, than his duration is a division of his ex stence... | |
 | Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz - 1890 - 606 pages
...not God. Nor is there any Difficulty in what is here alledged about 'Space having Parts. For Infinite Space is One, absolutely and essentially indivisible:...suppose it parted, and yet not parted at the same lime. The Immensity or Omnipresence of God, is no more a dividing of his Substance into Parts; than... | |
 | G.W. Leibniz - 1975 - 756 pages
...not God. Nor is there any difficulty in what is here alleged about space having parts. For infinite space is one, absolutely and essentially indivisible....terms, because there must be space in the partition itself, which is to suppose it parted and yet not parted at the same time. The immensity or omnipresence... | |
 | Wolfhart Pannenberg - 1993 - 184 pages
...to this: "Nor is there any Difficulty in what is here alleged about Space having Parts. For Infinite Space is one. absolutely and essentially indivisible:...Terms; because there must be Space in the Partition itself; which is to suppose it parted, and yet not parted at the same time" (p. 368 n. 3). Leibniz... | |
 | Wolfhart Pannenberg - 1991 - 536 pages
...Schriften, VII, 360). 222. Clarke (cf. Leibniz, Die philosophischen Schriften, VII, 368): "Infinite Space is One, absolutely and essentially indivisible:...Terms, because there must be Space in the Partition itself." Kant argued similarly in his discussion of space in the Critique of Pure Reason (§ A 23).... | |
 | Nick Huggett - 1999 - 292 pages
...not God. Nor is there any difficulty in what is here alleged about space having parts. For infinite space is one, absolutely and essentially indivisible:...terms; because there must be space in the partition itself; which is to suppose it parted, and yet not parted at the same time. The immensity or omnipresence... | |
 | Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz, Samuel Clarke - 2000 - 132 pages
...not God. Nor is there any difficulty in what is here advanced about space having parts. For infinite space is one, absolutely and essentially indivisible,...terms, because there must be space in the partition itself, which is to suppose it parted and yet not parted at the same time.4' The immensity or omnipresence... | |
 | Marina Frasca-Spada - 2002 - 252 pages
...whole of Clarke's passage, though, shows that the situation is not quite as simple as that: Infinite space is one, absolutely and essentially indivisible:...terms; because there must be space in the partition itself; which is to suppose it parted, and yet not parted at the same time [and this, as Clarke reminds... | |
 | Thomas M. Lennon, Robert J. Stainton - 2008 - 290 pages
...not separable even in thought, unlike the parts of matter. Thus he writes to Leibniz: For infinite space is one, absolutely and essentially indivisible....terms, because there must be space in the partition itself, which is to suppose it parted and yet not parted at the same time. (G VII 368/L 685) Parts... | |
 | Michael Futch - 2008 - 205 pages
...letter that space being a property of an "infinite and eternal being" raises no difficulties since space is "one, absolutely and essentially indivisible,...terms, because there must be space in the partition itself, which is to suppose it parted and not parted at the same time" (LC 3.3). This harkens back... | |
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Nor is there any difficulty in what is here alleged about space having parts. For infinite space is one, absolutely and essentially indivisible: and to suppose it parted, is a contradiction in terms; because there must be space in the partition itself;... 