 | Myrna Gopnik - 1997 - 241 pages
...astone, and were asked how the stone came to be there; I might possibly answer, that, for anything I knew to the contrary, it had lain there for ever: nor would it perhaps be very easy to show the absurdity of this answer. But suppose I had found awatch upon the ground, and it should be... | |
 | Myrna Gopnik Professor of Linguistics McGill University - 1997 - 246 pages
...theologian William Paley (1828) wrote: In crossing a heath, suppose I pitched my foot against a stone, and were asked how the stone came to be there; I might possibly answer, that, for anything I knew to the contrary, it had lain there for ever: nor would it perhaps be very easy to show... | |
 | Edward Craig - 1998 - 896 pages
...the argument by William PALEY (ยง2): In crossing a heath, suppose I pitched my foot against a stone, and were asked how the stone came to be there, I might possibly answer that for any thing I know to the contrary, it had lain there for ever: nor would it perhaps be very easy to show the absurdity... | |
 | John Hedley Brooke, John Brooke, Geoffrey Cantor - 2000 - 392 pages
...often-cited opening sentence begins: 'In crossing a heath, suppose I pitched my foot against a stone, and were asked how the stone came to be there; I might possibly answer . . .'. The encounter with a stone, then a watch, trades on the shared experience of stones and watches... | |
 | Michael R. Matthews - 2000 - 474 pages
...watch on a lonely heath." He says: In crossing a heath, suppose 1 pitched my foot against a stone , and were asked how the stone came to be there: I might...I knew to the contrary, it had lain there for ever . . . But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be enquired how the watch happended... | |
 | Gillian Beer - 2000 - 316 pages
...objects suggest a surrealist landscape. In crossing a heath, suppose I pitched my foot against a sttme, and were asked how the stone came to be there, I might possibly answer that, lor anything I knew to the contrary, it had lain there for ever; nor would it. perhaps, be very easy... | |
 | P. J. Clarke - 2001 - 216 pages
...stone, and were asked how the stone came to be there, l might possibly answer, that, for anything l knew to the contrary, it had lain there for ever; nor would it, perhaps, be very easy to show the absurdity of this answer. But suppose l found a watch upon the ground, and it should be inquired... | |
 | Michael F. Palmer - 2001 - 388 pages
...PALEY:THE WATCH AND THE WATCHMAKER1 In crossing a heath, suppose I pirched my foot against a stone, and were asked how the stone came to be there, I might possibly answer, that, for anything I knew to the contrary, it had lain there forever: nor would it pethaps be very easy to show... | |
 | Paul Haffner - 2001 - 304 pages
...(1743-1805). The argument runs as follows: In crossing a heath, suppose I pitched my foot against a stone, and were asked how the stone came to be there; I might possibly answer, that, for anything I knew to the contrary, it had lain there forever: nor would it perhaps be very easy to show... | |
 | Lucy Hartley - 2005 - 264 pages
...Theology (1802) was as follows: In crossing a heath, suppose I pitched my foot against a stone, and were I asked how the stone came to be there, I might possibly answer that, for anything 1 knew to the contrary, it had lain there for ever; nor would it, perhaps, be very easy to... | |
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I knew to the contrary, it had lain there for ever: nor would it perhaps be very easy to show the absurdity of this answer. But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be inquired how the watch happened to be in that place ; I should... 
