 | Jonathan Bennett - 1984 - 420 pagina’s
...despondency he adds: 'These things follow from this affect as necessarily as it follows from the nature of a triangle that its three angles are equal to two right angles' (4p57s). There are many other such turns of phrase. Because I think that logical (or absolute) and... | |
 | John Locke - 2002 - 318 pagina’s
...duties arising out of man's nature are just as necessary and immutable as the deduction from the nature of a triangle that its three angles are equal to two right ones. (2) It cannot be said that natural law is not binding on all men because it has been repealed.... | |
 | Alan Donagan - 1994 - 316 pagina’s
..."These things follow from this affect [ie, despondency] as necessarily as it follows from the nature of a triangle that its three angles are equal to two right angles."8 Why Bennett interprets this comparison as implying causal rationalism is not clear. Since... | |
 | Reuben Hersh - 1997 - 372 pagina’s
...such propositions, than as things really agree to those archetypes in his mind. Is it true of the idea of a triangle, that its three angles are equal to two right ones? It is true also of a triangle wherever it really exists" (£B«Y, IV, 6). "All the discourses... | |
 | Warren Montag, Ted Stolze - 1997 - 286 pagina’s
...the same as if they were to say that God can bring it about that it would not follow from the nature of a triangle that its three angles are equal to two right angles; or that from a given cause the effect would not follow — which is absurd. . . . neither intellect... | |
 | Samuel Clarke - 1998 - 212 pagina’s
...this is the same as if they said that God can bring it about that it should not follow from the nature of a triangle that its three angles are equal to two right ones... I think I have shown quite clearly ... that from God's supreme power ... ali1hings have necessarily... | |
 | Margaret Dauler Wilson - 1999 - 550 pagina’s
...with the same necessity, in the same way, as from eternity and to eternity it follows from the nature of a triangle that its three angles are equal to two right angles (£Ipl7s).1 According to a number of commentators, such passages indicate that Spinoza assimilates... | |
 | Derk Pereboom - 1999 - 392 pagina’s
...with the same necessity, in the same way, as from eternity and to eternity it follows from the nature of a triangle that its three angles are equal to two right angles (EIp17s).1 193 According to a number of commentators, such passages indicate that Spinoza assimilates... | |
 | Roger Ariew, Eric Watkins - 2000 - 326 pagina’s
...patience both faces of fortune. For all things follow from God's eternal decree by the same necessity as it follows from the essence of a triangle that its three angles are equal to two right angles. 3. This doctrine assists us in our social relations, in that it teaches us to hate no one, despise... | |
 | Gary B. Herbert - 2003 - 382 pagina’s
...follow as necessarily from the nature of man . . .as it follows from the nature of a triangle, if it be a triangle, that its three angles are equal to two right angles." Either the natural law follows from the Divine Will or it is part of the necessary order of things,... | |
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Is it true of the idea of a triangle, that its three angles are equal to two right ones ? It is true also of a triangle, wherever it really exists. 
