 | John Fearn - 1812 - 422 pages
...Sentence, which runs thus : " The moment that, in consequence of such an impression, a Sen" sation is excited, we learn two facts at once ; the existence...Sensation, and our own existence as sentient Beings ; in other1 " words, the very first exercise of my Consciousness necessarily im" plies a belief," &c. Here,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1814 - 582 pages
...were ever to be made on our external senses. The moment that, in consequence of such an impression, a sensation is excited, we learn two facts at once...existence of that being which I denote by the words I and myself. Of these facts, however, it is the former alone of which we can properly be said to be... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1814 - 560 pages
...were ever to be made on our external senses. The moment that, in consequence of such an impression, a sensation is excited, we learn two facts at once...beings ; — in other words, the very first exercise of consciousuess necessarily implies a belief, not only of the present existence of what is felt, but... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1816 - 644 pages
...were ever to be made on our external senses. The moment that, in consequence of such an impression, a sensation is excited, we learn two facts at once...existence of what is felt, but of the present existence of tJiat which feels and thinks ; or (to employ plainer language) the present existence of that being... | |
 | John Bird Sumner - 1818 - 416 pages
...and farther proof of the existence of a material world f. But so * Philos. Essays, Es. ip 8. " The exercise of consciousness necessarily implies a belief,...present existence of that which feels and thinks. Of these facts, however, it is the former alone of which we can possibly be said to be conscious agreeably... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1821 - 348 pages
...were ever to be made on our external senses. The moment that, in consequence of such an impression, a sensation is excited, we learn two facts at once...the present existence of that which feels and thinks ; 6r, (to employ plainer language) the present existence of that being which I denote by the words... | |
 | John Bird Sumner (abp. of Canterbury.) - 1825 - 426 pages
...the knowledge of our own existence. But Mr. Stewart* has acutely * Philos. Essays, Es. ip 8. " The exercise of consciousness necessarily implies a belief...present existence of that which feels and thinks. Of these facts, however, it is the former alone of which we can possibly be said to be conscious agreeably... | |
 | Thomas Wallace (LL.D.) - 1827 - 132 pages
...ordinary acceptation of " the word, implies a belief not only of the pre" sent existence of THAT which is felt, but of the " present existence of that which feels and thinks, " that being which I denote by the words /and " myself; yet, properly speaking, it is the former of... | |
 | George Payne - 1828 - 574 pages
...on an external sense." He proceeds to observe, " that the moment in which a sensation is produced, we learn two facts at once — the existence of the...is felt, but of the present existence of that which thinks and feels, or of that being which I denote, I, and myself." It is, however, of the former of... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 450 pages
...were ever to be made on our external senses. The moment that, in consequence of such an impression, a sensation is excited, we learn two facts at once...beings : — in other words, the very first exercise of ray consciousness necessarily implies a belief, not only of the present existence of what is felt,... | |
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... the very first exercise of consciousness necessarily implies a belief, not only of the present existence of what is felt, but of the present existence of that which feels... 
