Herschel evidently saw, that if we hesitate to explain gravity, as Descartes did, by an impulse from outside, we are absolutely driven to admit a will inherent in bodies, Non datur tertium.
Nec etiam in curijs principum, nec in via datur eis comedere, nisi semel in die, et satis parum.
Footnote 377: We have here a remark on unconscious prophecies: 'Loqui datur quod nos sensisse nescimus: sed post casum reminiscimur, quod ignorantes veraciter dixeramus.
The other two principles, non datur saltus, and non datur hiatus connect with the principle of continuity already established in the Anticipations of Perception and in the second Analogy.
Non datur fatum may be taken as meaning that natural (i.
In mundo non datur casus gives expression to the above empirical principle.
That may be so, but only if the reader be permitted the same high-handed methods of adjustment that are here illustrated in Kant's location of non datur fatum with the principles of modality.
But est quadam prodire tenus, si non datur ultra: there is a limit to which reflection can penetrate and can so far lighten the night of our existence, although the horizon always remains dark.
What is, however, especially assumed here is the non datur tertium, and accordingly hitherto every philosophy has represented one or the other.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "datur" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
