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...other. For these are plain and acknowledged matters of fact. By liberty, then, we can only mean a power of acting or not acting according to the determinations...remain at rest, we may ; if we choose to move, we also nmy. Now • Sec NOTE [F.] this hypothetical liberty is universally allowed to belong to every one...

...other. For these are plain and acknowledged matters of fact. By liberty, then, we can only mean a power of acting or not acting according to the determinations...universally allowed to belong to every one who is is not a prisoner and in chains. Here then is no subject of dispute. Whatever definition we may give...

...liberty," says he, " we can only mean a power of acting or not acting according to the determination of the will : that is, if we choose to remain at rest, we may ; if we choose to move, we also may."* Such he declares is all that can possibly be meant by the term liberty ; and hence it follows that...

...then, we can only mean a power of acting or not acting aecording to the determinations of the mll; that is, if we choose to remain at rest, we may ;...hypothetical liberty is universally allowed to belong to able certainty from their motives, and from the dispositions of the agent ; yet it frequently happens,...

...the other. For these are plain and acknowledged matters of fact. By liberty, then, we can on]y ° __ is, if we choose to remain at rest, we may ; if we...hypothetical liberty is universally allowed to belong to able certainty from their motives, and from the dispositions of the agent; yet it frequently happens,...

...superficial, and utterly untenable. As regards liberty, our author gives the common definition : ** A power of acting or not acting, according to the determinations of the will." We do not accept this definition. However generally received, we have no hesitation in saying, it assumes...

...plainly nothing but 'the liberty, as to which,' as Hume says, 'there can be no ' subject of dispute ; if we choose to remain at rest, we ' may ; if we choose to move, we also may'— what Hamilton calls ' the liberty of Spontaneity (to Do as we will), a liberty which no Fatalist ever...

...Letter 62, L1fe, Corresp. and Ethics, by R. Willis, MD, p. 393. ' By liberty we can only mean a power of acting or not acting, according to the determinations of the Will.' — Hume, Essays, n. no. By freedom or liberty in an agent is meant, ' being free from hindrance or...

...superficial, and utterly untenable. As regards liberty, our author gives the common definition : u A. power of acting or not acting, according to the determinations of the will." We do not accept this definition. However generally received, we have no hesitation in saying, it assumes...