The treaties of the European powers with the United States of America, will have no validity on a dissolution of the union.
But the immediate point in contest between them was a tract of land on the Oconee, which the State of Georgia claimed under a purchase, the validity of which was denied by the Indians.
Christ would have laughed at the "Validity of Orders" difficulty of the present day.
It consigns the individual to his private mind, and cannot provide for the validity of knowledge enough even to maintain itself.
Categories without perceptions are "empty"; they have validity solely with reference to the experience which they set in order.
Is not its refusal to establish the universe upon moral foundations destructive both of the validity of goodness, and of the incentive to its attainment?
Certainly not--if thevalidity of goodness be determined by criteria of worth, and if the incentive to goodness be the possibility of making that which merely exists, or is necessary, also good.
In his "Principles of Human Knowledge," the English philosopher Bishop Berkeley raises the question as to the universalvalidity of mathematical demonstrations.
But at the same time we recognize the definiteness of the task of science, and the validity of such reservations as may be made from a higher critical point of view.
Validity of Ideal of Perfection, but Impossibility of Deducing the Whole of Experience from it.
But if validity be the merit of philosophy, it can well be supplemented by immediacy, which is the merit of poetry.
Since this history comprehends the activities of many individuals, a generalvalidity attaches to it.
We of the present are in the habit of acknowledging the autonomy of science, and the unimpeachable validity of the results of experimental research in so far as they are sanctioned by the consensus of experts.
But although it is possible that a universal law of nature might exist in accordance with that maxim, it is impossible to will that such a principle should have the universal validity of a law of nature.
Reason takes a direct interest in action then only when the universal validity of its maxims is alone sufficient to determine the will.
Hook nor any of his brethren has been pleased to do this very easy thing, though they have often been challenged to do it, as essential to their priestly identity and the validity of their ministrations.
A compact between independent sovereigns, founded on ordinary acts of legislative authority, can pretend to no higher validity than a league or treaty between the parties.
The rule which has obtained in the courts for determining their relative validity is, that the last in order of time shall be preferred to the first.
The express authority of the people alone could give due validity to the Constitution.
The truth is, that references to a jury in that court rarely happen, and are in no case necessary but where the validity of a devise of land comes into question.
But his presence in no way affects the validityof the sacrament, being merely a wise precaution against the admission of unworthy communicants.
They never met together again on earth, but who can question the validityof that sacred meal, and who would dare to say that the ceremony would have been more acceptable to God if a clergyman had been present?
The tradition of the elders was of more value and validity with them than God's laws by Moses.
What the Darwinian does is to deny the validity of the evidence which the teleologist brings to prove his case.
Refusal to discuss the validity of a religious opinion will be taken as the sign of a highly developed spiritual nature, and a tolerance of diverging opinions as an indication of unbelief.
Deviations have as a fact been observed, proving the validity of our assertion.
To prove the validity of this explanation, a simple experiment may be given.
The validity and the significance of these considerations will at once become clear, if we choose a definite example.
The validity of this law of periodicity is of course not limited to our "five-leaved" clover.
Some illustrative examples may suffice to prove the validity of this assertion.
It teaches the validity of natural laws of life in its broadest sense, and crowns the philosophy founded by Newton and Lyell.
Our pedigree-culture was mainly an experimental demonstration of thevalidity of conclusions, which had previously been deduced from such observations as can be made after the accidental birth of new forms.
He has been prudent to the utmost, leaving many points undecided, and among them especially the range of validity of his several arguments.
Mendel's law of varietal hybrids is based upon the principle of unit-characters, and the validity of this conception has thus been brought home to many investigators.
It would be quite superfluous to give further proof of the general validity of the law of periodicity in ever-sporting varieties.
In order to prove the validityof this assertion, it will be necessary to discuss two points separately, viz.
It was only after obtaining proof of the validity [823] of his method that Von Lochow decided to give it to the public.
The validity of the hereditary percentage as a standard of selection has, within the last few years, been recognized and defended by two eminent breeders, W.
It is always difficult to estimate the validity of conclusions drawn from isolated instances selected from the whole range of contingent phenomena, and this is especially true of the present case.
But the President absolutely refused to admit the validity of my appeal, though it was as a "war measure" that the President some months later demanded that the Senate pass the suffrage amendment.
Hopkins carried a picket banner to the gates of the White House to test {118} the validity of the pardon.
The factors which we mention here in a series cannot, of course, all be in themselves of equal validity and we must expect to meet with difficulties in the assigning to the individual factors their due importance.
The administration was vested in a council chosen by the shareholders, but its decisions have no validity without the approval of the governor.
The periods of validity of cases appealed from the audiencias of Ultramar varied with the distance and the time necessary for the transmission of autos to the Council.
If there were doubt, however, as to the validity of the claims of persons representing themselves as descendants, or if there were no heirs, the case would then be administered by the juez de difuntos.
Controversy arose touching the validity of the original payment of the debt to the de facto regent of the territory.
As to the position of our Opponent, that there is no way whereby the validity of any pretensions to the religious affections may be ascertained; it must partly be admitted.
It proves the validity of its title, by actions corresponding with its nature, by practical endeavours to gratify the wishes and to promote the interests of the object of affection.
It may be objected, to this argument, that its validity depends upon the assumption that the change of a relation of externality must be continuous.
This is a strong argument for the empirical validity of Euclid, but as an argument for the apodeictic certainty of the orthodox system, it has an opposite tendency.
The validityof any proof must turn, obviously, on the definition of imaginability.
This establishes the à priori axioms of Geometry, as necessarily having existential import and validity in any intelligible world.
He is a rationalist of the pre-Kantian type, but a believer in the validity of Metageometry.
The exception to this axiom, in spherical space, presupposes metrical Geometry, and does not destroy the validity of the axiom for projective Geometry.
We have now, I think, discussed most of the questions concerning the scope andvalidity of the projective method.
But the advocates of Birth Control seriously and positively controvert and deny the validity and truth of this argument.
This is the only sane method of testing the validityand desirability of such things--Birth Control among the others.
The history of mankind bears witness to the validity of it; the experience of each individual in the deepest moments of life echoes the experience of the race.
All over-personal ideals cannot connote the good of all, but the good of all must be present as possessing a validity of its own before any lower over-personal ideal can prevent landing men in disaster.
What can it do but grant cosmic origin and validity to such ideals?
Even as far as this level we find the deeper life--the spiritual life--insisting on the validity of its mental and moral conclusions over against the objects of sense.
Men are more and more feeling the necessity of conceding a validity and objectivity to the concepts of History.
But Dilthey's objectivity and validity stopped short of religion in the sense in which religion is presented by Eucken.
No outsider is competent to pronounce judgment on the validity of the proofs possessed within this spiritual realm.
There comes the constant need of certifying the validity of its experience on the heights, and of getting others who have never attempted the experiment to do so.
Besides this, however, we must refer to the fact that the validity of the principle of sufficient reason is limited to the phenomenon; this was the theme of my first essay on that principle, which was published as early as 1813.
Baumgarten, Reimarus, Lambert, and Platner added nothing to the work of Wolff, and the next great step was Hume's question as to the validity of the principle.
The law has thus to do exclusively with the changes of objects of external experience, and not with things themselves, a circumstance which is fatal to the validity of the cosmological proof of the existence of God.
If the empiricist denies the intellectual element in scientific knowledge, he must not claim absolute validity for his conclusions; but he may hold against the intuitionalist that absolute laws are impossible to the human intellect.
As the whole stress of any objection to the present argument must thus be brought to bear upon the validity of this its fundamental premiss, a few words may now be said to show that the premiss is not wholly gratuitous.
But as soon as the question concerning the validity of this assumption is raised into the region of philosophy, it receives the answer that the assumption cannot be allowed to pass.
The objection that an uncaused volition cannot be a responsible volition depends for its validity on the meaning which we attach to the term 'uncaused.
Therefore it is the validityof this assumption that we have here to investigate.
