An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Volumen2Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1894 |
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... true that general names are only make- shifts for an infinite number of proper names , that even the possession of an infinite store of such names would not enable us to think one jot , or to frame a single sentence . Each object being ...
... true that general names are only make- shifts for an infinite number of proper names , that even the possession of an infinite store of such names would not enable us to think one jot , or to frame a single sentence . Each object being ...
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... true , there is ordinarily supposed a real constitution of the sorts of things ; and it is past doubt there must be some real con- stitution3 , on which any collection of simple ideas co - existing⭑ must depend . But , it being evident ...
... true , there is ordinarily supposed a real constitution of the sorts of things ; and it is past doubt there must be some real con- stitution3 , on which any collection of simple ideas co - existing⭑ must depend . But , it being evident ...
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... true butes from its nature , as we do in the triangle . We must take a con- trary road [ to that of a priori deduction from real essences ] in the knowledge of God's works , and satisfy ourselves with their attributes as [ observed ] ...
... true butes from its nature , as we do in the triangle . We must take a con- trary road [ to that of a priori deduction from real essences ] in the knowledge of God's works , and satisfy ourselves with their attributes as [ observed ] ...
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... true as long as the same name con- tinues to carry the same signification . 2 Pure geometry , not perfectly real- ised in our sensuous perceptions of things . From what has been said , it is evident , 30 Essay concerning Human ...
... true as long as the same name con- tinues to carry the same signification . 2 Pure geometry , not perfectly real- ised in our sensuous perceptions of things . From what has been said , it is evident , 30 Essay concerning Human ...
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... true , as long as the same name can have the same sig- nification 1 . 20. To conclude . This is that which in short I would Recapitu- lation . say , viz . that all the great business of genera and species , and their essences , amounts ...
... true , as long as the same name can have the same sig- nification 1 . 20. To conclude . This is that which in short I would Recapitu- lation . say , viz . that all the great business of genera and species , and their essences , amounts ...
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Página 428 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it ; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it ; and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it ; is the sovereign good of human nature.
Página 431 - Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal father of light, and fountain of all knowledge, communicates to mankind that portion of truth which he has laid within the reach of their natural faculties: Revelation is natural reason enlarged by a new set of discoveries communicated by God immediately, which reason vouches the truth of, by the testimony and proofs it gives, that they come from God. So that he that takes away reason, to make way for revelation, puts out the light of both...
Página 228 - It is evident the mind knows not things immediately, but only by the intervention of the ideas it has of them. Our knowledge therefore is real only so far as there is a conformity between our ideas and the reality of things.
Página 381 - ... in the entrance of philosophy, when the second causes, which are next unto the senses, do offer themselves to the mind of man, if it dwell and stay there, it may induce some oblivion of the highest cause ; but when a man passeth on...
Página 193 - We have the ideas of matter and thinking, but possibly shall never be able to know whether any mere material being thinks or no; it being impossible for us, by the contemplation of our own ideas, without revelation, to discover whether Omnipotency has not given to some systems of matter, fitly disposed, a power to perceive and think...
Página 177 - This part of knowledge is irresistible, and like bright sunshine forces itself immediately to be perceived, as soon as ever the mind turns its view that way; and leaves no room for hesitation, doubt, or examination, but the mind is presently filled with the clear light of it.
Página 178 - ... capable of a greater certainty than to know that any idea in his mind is such as he perceives it to be; and that two ideas wherein he perceives a difference, are different and not precisely the same. He that demands a greater certainty than this, demands he knows not what, and shows only that he has a mind to be a sceptic, without being able to be so.
Página 421 - Because this would be to subvert the principles and foundations of all knowledge, evidence, and assent whatsoever: and there would be left no difference between truth and falsehood, no measures of credible and incredible in the world, if doubtful propositions shall take place before self-evident, and what we certainly know give way to what we may possibly be mistaken in.
Página 142 - The ends of language, in our discourse with others, being chiefly these three : First, To make known one man's thoughts or ideas to another : Secondly, To do it with as much ease and quickness as is possible : and, Thirdly, Thereby to convey the knowledge of things.
Página 231 - ... true and certain even of real things existing : because real things are no farther concerned, nor intended to be meant by any such propositions, than as things really agree to those archetypes in his mind.