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Example sentences for "sensible things"

  • Now Christ received empiric knowledge from sensible things, as stated above (A.

  • Sensible things considered in their own nature do not belong to the worship or kingdom of God: but considered only as signs of spiritual things in which the kingdom of God consists.

  • Hence our natural knowledge can go as far as it can be led by sensible things.

  • Inference is the process which from judgments about sensible things proceeds to judgments about things similar to sensible things.

  • Further, pride seeks pre-eminence not only in sensible things, but also in spiritual and intelligible things: while it consists essentially in the contempt of God, according to Ecclus.

  • I answer that, The knowledge of sensible things is directed to two things.

  • Just as God is supremely knowable in Himself yet not to us, on account of a defect in our knowledge which depends on sensible things, so too, God is supremely lovable in Himself, in as much as He is the object of happiness.

  • What think you of distrusting the senses, of denying the real existence of sensible things, or pretending to know nothing of them.

  • For,' as Professor Fraser says, 'faith in an established or external association between our sense-phenomena is the basis of the constructive activity of intellect in all inductive interpretation of sensible things.

  • Were the idea of reality only the idea of the sensible in general, we could never apply it to non-sensible things, which, however, experience teaches we can do.

  • In the perception of these ideas, there is something more profound than any thing apparent in sensible things, something of an entirely different order.

  • For any thing that comes under knowledge is being, is the true, in so far as it is in act, and this is manifestly apparent in sensible things.

  • Representation, properly speaking, occurs only in the imagination which necessarily relates to sensible things.

  • We actually see sensible things existing at a distance from our bodies.

  • I think an intuitive knowledge may be obtained of this, by any one that shall attend to what is meant by the term exist when applied to sensible things(525).

  • And after all their labouring and struggle of thought, they are forced to own we cannot attain to any self-evident or demonstrative knowledge of the existence of sensible things(669).

  • And why might it not be suppos'd that they might have incorporeal Essences, when he himself had, notwithstanding his Weakness and extream want of sensible Things?

  • I think an intuitive knowledge may be obtained of this by any one that shall attend to WHAT IS MEANT BY THE TERM EXIST, when applied to sensible things.

  • And, after all their labour and struggle of thought, they are forced to own we cannot attain to any self-evident or demonstrative knowledge of the existence of sensible things.


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