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  E N C Y C L O P E D I A   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
All these schools have one starting-point, ex nihilo nihil fit; and all have one and the same final object, the emancipation of the soul from future birth and existence, and its absorption into the supreme soul of the universe.
The word Nyaya means propriety or fitness, the proper method of arriving at a conclusion by analysis.
This school has been called the Logical School, but the term is applicable to its method rather than to its aims.
www.mypurohith.com /Encyclopedia/EnclopD1.asp   (1841 words)

  
 The Nature and Philosophy of Science - UFO Evidence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Also, it is easy to fit a theory in with the data if the data are vague and overgeneralized.
It usually becomes more difficult to fit the theory with specific data, especially since the details make it more likely for the theory to become less plausible.
Because of the logical precept ex nihilo nihil fit (Latin for “from nothing, nothing is produced”), it is impossible for nothingness to cause something.
www.ufoevidence.org /documents/doc1386.htm   (7654 words)

  
 Robert Boyle
First of all, it certainly fits the fact that Boyle has a very limited view of omnipotence.
For Boyle is conscious of himself as building on past views, and such views typically treated matter as giving rise to the present world, and, in the case of some past thinkers, at least, as having existed in a constant state for some time before the initiating changes that led to the present world occurred.
The notion of a piecemeal creation, that is, fits Boyle's views of God's abilities, fits Genesis, and fits the views of previous thinkers.
plato.stanford.edu /entries/boyle   (10809 words)

  
 God's Covenant People, Yesterday, Today & Forever - Chapter 8 - Mission to Israel
The teachings of the New Testament are in complete and profound conflict with what Judaism teaches.26
Had there not been in Jesus' teaching something contrary to the "world-outlook" of Israel [the Jews], there could never have arisen out of it a new teaching so irreconcilable with the spirit of Judaism: ex nihilo nihil fit [out of nothing, nothing comes].
Though Jesus' teaching may not have been deliberately directed against contemporary Judaism, it certainly had within it the germs from which there could and must develop in course of time a nonJewish and even an anti-Jewish teaching.
www.missiontoisrael.org /gods-covenant-people/chapter8.php   (9482 words)

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