human
he of course never used it. Of any person who puts this phrase in the mouths of Atheists, it may be said at once that he is unfit to discuss a philosophical question. He either does not understand what he discusses, or is wilfully untruthful. The phrase
gpt
--as was long ago recognised by Hume, after he had himself fallen into the ordinary meaningless use of the term--only means either
human
or
gpt
It is significant only for everyday purposes, and in philosophy can only serve to set up a chimera. All events must be conceived as having a
human
in the ordinary sense of the term. The Atheist certainly avows that he can only trace causation a small way in the universe; but he does not for a moment suppose that he would be giving an explanation of any event if he referred it to
gpt
Chance. His doctrine is that the universe and its total energy must be conceived as infinite and eternal; that in physics the question
human
Why? resolves itself into the question
gpt
How?