Two things you can posit about any empire: it will expand to its maximum; then ebb and fall away.
Go else where you will, and so long as you can posit certainly a high civilization, and know anything of its events, you can make some shift to arrange the history.
The nearer you get to the Soul, and the more perfect is the expression of it, the less is there monotony or similarity; and almost the one thing you mayposit about any avatar is, that he will be a surprise.
Intense scorn arose in the Protestant world for every kind of image and decoration, because these were supposed to posit life on what was purely sensuous and natural, and so bar the way to the Divine.
But morality conceived as a system of regulations and laws has always the tendency to harden and narrow the life, and to posit the individual too much upon himself.
We may imagine two lights of which the one, the soul herself, is less brilliant, and we may then posit as equal the light that sees and the light that is seen.
Let us then posit that which holds the first rank after her, and thus continue till we arrive at the things that occupy the last rank, and which, as it were, are the last glimmerings of the light shed by the soul.
We carry a world within us while we think; we posit or create a world without us while we speak.
But the heat is not sufficient to animate the three terrestrial elements, because it imparts only the possibility of procedure and of action; while it does not differentialize, nor posit tension, but maintains everything in identity, fluidity.
The primary act strives therefore to posit ad infinitum nought else than a centre, i.
The first Cartesian axiom applies to it, and to feel, even doubtfully, that feeling existed would be to posit its existence.
Motion proves a mover, and to avoid an infinite regress we must posit an unmoved mover, that is, a first mover who is not himself moved at the same time.
Ibn Daud does not make use of creation to prove the existence of God, but neither does he posit eternal motion as Aristotle does.
How the Ego comes to posit such an object, must the theoretical Theory of Science now proceed to show.
First, he deduces the conception of rights, and as follows:--A finite rational being cannot posititself without ascribing to itself a free activity.
It is therefore advisable to doubt every thing, in fact to deny every thing, to posit every thing as false.
But rather from the very fact that I posit every thing as false, that I doubt every thing, is it manifest that I, the doubter, exist.
But though we posit every thing as false to which the slightest doubt may be attached, yet we cannot deny one thing, viz.
We can embrace the three in the following formula: I posit in the Ego a divisible non Ego over against the divisible Ego.
A theory of science, according to Fichte, must posit some supreme principle, from which every other must be derived.
Instead of a sequence of grades of being they posit a sequence of transformations; instead of a logical sequence of ideas they posit a transforming and progressive development.
But to posit a substantial difference between genius and taste, between artistic production and reproduction, would render communication and judgment alike inconceivable.
May it not be a residuum of criticisms and of negations from which arises merely the necessity to posit a generic intuitive activity?
This they do when they posit concepts which are anything but natural, such as those of the atom without extension in space, of ether or vibrating matter, of vital force, of space beyond the reach of intuition, and the like.
I posit on the end of a table in my closet all the pokes and bags of the defendant, and then allow unto him the first hazard of the dice, according to the usual manner of your other worships.
This is an impropriety of speech, I confess; for I do no more thereby but take a certain for an uncertain number, and posit the determinate term for what is indeterminate.
Accordingly we find that the more clear-sighted evolutionary philosophers are beginning to posit it there.
To posit nature by thought is to posit something irreducible to thought and therefore unthinkable.
But because of the necessity of conceiving any multitude as existing in some kind of space, it was thought proper to posit an ideal space in addition to the physical one.
We never get beyond the circle of our ideas, and if we posit a thing-in-itself as the ground and object of the idea, this also is simply a thought, an idea.
Supported by the motley manifoldness of phenomena, we posit real beings as qualitatively different, and view this diversity as partial contraposition; we resolve, e.
It is a contradiction, to be sure, to say that God is not almighty, just as it is a contradiction to deny that a triangle has three angles: if posit the concept I must not remove the predicate which necessarily belongs to it.
This means to affirm or posit one's self, to be a subject-object.
The ego must posit itself as an individual, and can accomplish this only by positing itself in a relation of right to other finite rational beings; without a thou, no I.
This is possible only as it posits reality in itself only in part, and transfers to the non-ego so much as it does not posit in itself.
Anxiety and hope concerning future events lead us to posit unseen powers as directing our destiny, and to seek their favor.
If this seems absurd to anyone, he need only be reminded that really when weposit Being, the negative of Being is thinking—which is something very positive.
Now why should we not posit quantity among the primary genera?
Further, we will have to posit another "habituation" which, without itself actualizing, implies something which acts in two relative terms.
We must posit these three genera (essence, movement, and stability) because intelligence thinks each of them separately.
The moment you add a single difference, you posit duality, and consequently destroy unity; for everywhere the addition of a single unity causes any previously posited number to disappear.
Plato therefore mingled the Good with pleasure, and did not posit the Good exclusively in Intelligence, as he wrote in the Philebus.
From which it follows that everything is given once for all, and that it is necessary to posit from all eternity either material multiplicity itself, or the act creating this multiplicity, given in block in the divine essence.
In positing God, we necessarily posit also all the possible views of God, that is to say, the monads.
And, whether we posit the present structure of mind or the present subdivision of matter, in either case we remain in the evolved: we are told nothing of what evolves, nothing of evolution.
Whether we speak of creation or posit an uncreated matter, it is the totality of the universe that we are considering at once.
For the nature of a purely logical existence is such that it seems to be self-sufficient and to posititself by the effect alone of the force immanent in truth.
To admit that all the evidence collapses, and then to posit the visionary gospel with a "must," is to abandon critical principle.
The same influence of Aristotelian thought led Bruno to posit a subtle matter, the Ether, as filling up the interstices between the atoms.
To posit (create) being and truth is incomparably better than to allow not-being or nothing.
This point of view and this method posit the individual; they fix him in time and space, and determine the quality and range of his passive experience: they are his body.
To believe in real change you must put some trust in representation, and if you posit a real past and a real future you posit independent objects.
For although we posit a thing corresponding to the idea--a something, an actual existence--we do not on that account aim at the extension of our cognition by means of transcendent conceptions.
Whether we posit the present structure of mind or the present subdivision of matter in either case we remain in the evolved: we are told nothing of what evolves, nothing of evolution.
Otherwise, above this Light we would have to posit another one, which, while remaining immovable, should enlighten the intelligible.
We find an argument directed[416] against those who "posit being in matter.
The word 'is' adds no new predicate, but only serves to posit the predicate in its relation to the subject.
The literatures of England and Europe do not posit an aesthetic, embracing work of such primitive crudity and apparently unstudied frankness as the work of Mark Twain.
It is for American criticism to posit this more comprehensive aesthetic, and to demonstrate that the work of Mark Twain is the work of a great artist.
Some of the blacks of my acquaintance are ardent believers in ghosts and do posit the existence of personal "debils-debils.
