An Analytical Abridgment of Locke's Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingJ. M'Creery, 1808 - 307 páginas |
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... preference of Truth to Party- interest and Vain - glory , to make any body outdo me in what you seem so much to admire . " p . 524 . His friend Molyneux thought its prolixity tended only to illustrate the subject , and dissuaded him ...
... preference of Truth to Party- interest and Vain - glory , to make any body outdo me in what you seem so much to admire . " p . 524 . His friend Molyneux thought its prolixity tended only to illustrate the subject , and dissuaded him ...
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... preference.- These two last mentioned passions envy and anger , not being caused by pain or pleasure simply in them- selves , but implying a mixed consideration of our- selves and others , are not found in all men , because estimations ...
... preference.- These two last mentioned passions envy and anger , not being caused by pain or pleasure simply in them- selves , but implying a mixed consideration of our- selves and others , are not found in all men , because estimations ...
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... preference of his mind : wherever per- formance or forbearance are not equally in a man's power , that is , will not follow the preference of his mind , there he is not free , though the 84.
... preference of his mind : wherever per- formance or forbearance are not equally in a man's power , that is , will not follow the preference of his mind , there he is not free , though the 84.
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... preference , but to the power of obeying the directions of the mind . - Vo- luntary is not opposed to necessary but to involun- tary : for a man may prefer what he can do to what he cannot do , the state he is in to its change , though ...
... preference , but to the power of obeying the directions of the mind . - Vo- luntary is not opposed to necessary but to involun- tary : for a man may prefer what he can do to what he cannot do , the state he is in to its change , though ...
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... preference of his mind , so far he is free : -To prefer an action to its absence is to will it ; and we cannot imagine any being freer than to be able to do what he wills . But man wishing to shift off all thought of guilt from himself ...
... preference of his mind , so far he is free : -To prefer an action to its absence is to will it ; and we cannot imagine any being freer than to be able to do what he wills . But man wishing to shift off all thought of guilt from himself ...
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Página 6 - Our business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct. If we can find out those measures whereby a rational creature, put in that state in which man is in this world, may, and ought to govern his opinions, and actions depending thereon, we need not be troubled that some other things escape our knowledge.
Página 53 - Thus the ideas, as well as children of our youth, often die" before us ; and our minds represent to us those tombs to which we are approaching ; where though the brass and marble remain, yet the inscriptions are effaced by time, and the imagery moulders away.
Página 281 - 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...
Página 2 - Newton, with some others of that strain ; it is ambition enough to be employed as an under-labourer in clearing the ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish that lies in the way to knowledge...
Página 50 - To which the acute and judicious proposer answers: "Not. For though he has obtained the experience of how a globe, how a cube, affects his touch, yet he has not yet attained the experience that what affects his touch so or so must affect his sight so or so...
Página 56 - This is a way of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor and allusion,* wherein for the most part lies that entertainment and pleasantry of wit, which strikes so lively on the fancy, and therefore is so acceptable to all people, because its beauty appears at first sight, and there is required no labour of thought to examine what truth or reason there is in it.
Página 150 - Words become general by being made the signs of general ideas; and ideas become general by separating from them the circumstances of time and place and any other ideas that may determine them to this or that particular existence.
Página 301 - ZrifituaTiKii or the doctrine of signs, the most usual whereof being words, it is aptly enough termed also AoyiKfi, logic; the business whereof is to consider the nature of signs the mind makes use of for the understanding of things, or conveying its knowledge to others.
Página 209 - Where there is no property there is no injustice," is a proposition as certain as any demonstration in Euclid: for the idea of property being a right to anything, and the idea to which the name "injustice" is given being the invasion or violation of that right, it is evident that these ideas, being thus established, and these names annexed to them, I can as certainly know this proposition to be true, as that a triangle has three angles equal to two right ones. Again: "No government allows absolute...
Página 6 - The candle, that is set up in us, shines bright enough for all our purposes. The discoveries we can make with this, ought to satisfy us; and we shall then use our understandings right, when we entertain all objects in that way and proportion that they are suited to our faculties, and upon those grounds they are capable of being proposed to us ; and not peremptorily, or intemperately require demonstration, and demand certainty, where probability only is to be had, and which is sufficient to govern...