 | 1798 - 542 pages
...it, and in contending that it has no essence independent of mental perception, that existence arid perceptibility are convertible terms, that external...EPICHARMUS and PLATO seem to have adopted, and which which haa been maintained in the present century with great elegance, but with little public applause... | |
 | Asiatic Society of Bengal - 1807 - 504 pages
...lunacy) but, in correcting the popular notion of it, and in contending that it has no essence independent of mental perception ; that existence and perceptibility...the divine energy, which alone sustains them, were sufpended but for a moment : an opinion, which Epicharmus and Plato seem to have adopted, and which... | |
 | Edward Scott Waring - 1807 - 356 pages
...lunacy) but in correcting the popular notion of it, and in contending that it has no essence independent of mental perception: that existence and perceptibility...external appearances and sensations are illusory, • See Enfiold's History of Philosophy, vol. ii. p. 222, 488. Sir William Jones, vol. ip 10 i, and... | |
 | Edward Scott Waring - 1807 - 358 pages
...lunacy) but in correcting the popular notion of it, and in contending that jt has no essence independent of mental perception : that existence and perceptibility...are convertible terms ; that external appearances aad sensations are illusory, • See Enfield's History of Philosophy, vol. ii. p. 222, 488. Sir William... | |
 | John William Cunningham - 1808 - 224 pages
...Vyasa himself, it teaches that the material world exists only in the perceptions of men ; in short, that " existence and perceptibility are convertible...sustains them, were suspended but for a moment*." Now although we should admit, with the distinguished writer from whom this statement is Sir William... | |
 | Lady Maria Callcott - 1814 - 432 pages
...independent on mental perception, and consequently that existence and perceptibility are controvertible terms. That external appearances and sensations are...alone sustains them were suspended but for a moment. Their notions concerning the human soul approach nearly to the Pantheism of some other philosophical... | |
 | Lady Maria Callcott - 1814 - 428 pages
...independent on mental perception, and consequently that existence and perceptibility are controvertible terms. That external appearances and sensations are...alone sustains them were suspended but for a moment. Their notions concerning the human soul approach nearly to the Pantheism of some other philosophical... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1814 - 582 pages
...has no essence indepen" dent of mental perception, that existence and perceptibility arecon" vertible terms, that external appearances and sensations are...'vanish into nothing, if the divine energy, which alone sus" tains them, were suspended but for a moment * ; an opinion, which " Epicharmus and Plato seem... | |
 | Lady Maria Callcott - 1814 - 428 pages
...perceptibility are controvertible terms. That external appearances and sensations are illusory, arid would vanish into nothing if the divine energy which...alone sustains them were suspended but for a moment. Their notions concerning the human soul approach nearly to the Pantheism of some other philosophical... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1814 - 560 pages
...lunacy,') but in correcting the popular notion of it, and in contending, that it has no essence independent of mental perception, that existence and perceptibility...external appearances and sensations are illusory, and mould vanish into nothing, if the divine energy, mhich alone sustains them, were suspended but fora... | |
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The fundamental tenet of the Vedanta school consisted not in denying the existence of matter, that is, of solidity, impenetrability and extended figure (to deny which would be lunacy), but in correcting the popular notion of it, and in contending that... 
