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…as I have hinted above), if one of the forces be infinite, the others, however great, are both relatively and absolutely nothing. In any category, infinity excludes finity, unless that finity be an identical part of that infinity. In the category of existing things, space being infinite, for on that hypothesis we are still working, either matter fills or does not fill it. If the former, matter is infinitely great ; if the latter, infinitely small. Whether the matter ~ 1
1903 · PDF PAGE 12
10 When I say “No cat has two tails” I do not mean, as the old fallacy runs, that “ Absence-of-cat possesses two tails” but that “In the category of two-tailed things, there is no extension of cat.” Nothingness is that about which no positive pro- position is valid. We cannot truly affirm : ‘Nothingness is green, or heavy, or sweet.” Let us call time, space, being, heaviness, hunger, the categories. “ If a man be heavy and hungry, he is extended in all these, besides, of course, many more. But let us suppose that these five are all. Call the ma…
1903 · PDF PAGE 3
…e or idea actually existing, we first come to the question of the possibility of the co-existence of God and man. The Christians, in the category of the existent, enumerate among other things, whose consideration we may discard for the purposes of this argument, God, an infinite being ; man; Satan and his angels; man certainly, and Satan presumably, finite beings. These are not
1903 · PDF PAGE 16
…hase of 0°? Surely not. In the first place, there is no reason why the whole should do so; * is just as convertible as =. But worse, the category of causality hes been formed, and its inertia is sufficient to oppose a most serious stumbling-block to so gigantic a process. The task before us is consequently of a terrible nature. It is easy to let things slide, to grin and bear it in fact, until everything is merged in the ultimate
1903 · PDF PAGE 17
…e decently tolerable, But while we wait? ‘There now arises the question of freewill. Causality is probably not fully extended in its own category, a circumstance which gives room for a fractional amount of freewill. If this be not so, it matters little; for if I find myself in a good state, that merely proves that my destiny took me there, We are, as Herbert Spencer observes, self-deluded with the idea of freewill; but if this is so, norhing matters at all. If, however, Herbert Spencer is mistaken (unlikely as it must appear), then our reason i…