An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Volumen2J. Johnson, W. J. and J. Richardson, W. Otridge and Son, F. C. and J. Rivington, D. Ogilvy and Son, Leigh and Sotheby, T. Payne, [and 11 others], and J. Mawman, 1805 - 510 páginas |
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... Common- Place - Book . EXTRACTED FROM THE AUTHOR'S WORKS . VOLUME II . LONDON : Printed for J. Johnson , W. J. and J. Richardson , W. Otridge and Son , F. C. and J. Rivington , D. Ogilvy and Son , Leigh and Sotheby , T. Payne , G ...
... Common- Place - Book . EXTRACTED FROM THE AUTHOR'S WORKS . VOLUME II . LONDON : Printed for J. Johnson , W. J. and J. Richardson , W. Otridge and Son , F. C. and J. Rivington , D. Ogilvy and Son , Leigh and Sotheby , T. Payne , G ...
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... of Natural Philosophy 413 441 A New Method of a Common - Place - Book Index to the Essay concerning Human Understanding . Additional Pieces in this Volume . THE CONTENTS OF THE ESSAY on HUMAN UNDERSTANDING continued . 23 THE.
... of Natural Philosophy 413 441 A New Method of a Common - Place - Book Index to the Essay concerning Human Understanding . Additional Pieces in this Volume . THE CONTENTS OF THE ESSAY on HUMAN UNDERSTANDING continued . 23 THE.
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... common use of them , would have given us light into the nature of our ideas , if they had been but considered with attention . The mind , as has been shown , has a power to abstract its ideas , and so they become essences , general ...
... common use of them , would have given us light into the nature of our ideas , if they had been but considered with attention . The mind , as has been shown , has a power to abstract its ideas , and so they become essences , general ...
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... common use , or obtain the licence of public approbation . Which seems to me at least to intimate the confession of all mankind , that they have no ideas of the real essences of substances , since they have not names for such ideas ...
... common use , or obtain the licence of public approbation . Which seems to me at least to intimate the confession of all mankind , that they have no ideas of the real essences of substances , since they have not names for such ideas ...
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... common conversation and com merce , about the ordinary affairs and conveniencies of civil life , in the societies of men one amongst another . Secondly , by the philosophical use of words , I mean such an use of them , as may serve to ...
... common conversation and com merce , about the ordinary affairs and conveniencies of civil life , in the societies of men one amongst another . Secondly , by the philosophical use of words , I mean such an use of them , as may serve to ...
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Página 102 - Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament ; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
Página 127 - 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 102 - As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.
Página 273 - 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.
Página 339 - I have mentioned mathematics as a way to settle in the mind a habit of reasoning closely and in train ; not that I think it necessary that all men should be deep mathematicians, but that, having got the way of reasoning which that study necessarily brings the mind to, they might be able to transfer it to other parts of knowledge, as they shall have occasion.
Página 201 - ... deserves the name of knowledge. If we persuade ourselves that our faculties act and inform us right concerning the existence of those objects that affect them, it cannot pass for an ill-grounded confidence: for I think nobody can, in earnest, be so sceptical as to be uncertain of the existence of those things which he sees and feels.
Página 163 - ... neither oblique nor rectangle, neither equilateral, equicrural, nor scalenon ; but all and none of these at once. In effect, it is something imperfect, that cannot exist ; an idea wherein some parts of several different and inconsistent ideas are put together.
Página 438 - Heat is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts of the object, which produces in us that sensation, from whence we denominate the object hot ; so what in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing b,ut motion.
Página 69 - For if we reflect on our own ways of thinking, we shall find that sometimes the mind perceives the agreement or disagreement of two ideas immediately by themselves, without the intervention of any other: and this, I think, we may call intuitive knowledge.
Página 214 - For the ideas that ethics are conversant about being all real essences, and such as I imagine have a discoverable connexion and agreement one with another ; so far as we can find their habitudes and relations, so far we shall be possessed of certain, real, and general truths : and I doubt not, but, if a right method were taken, a great part of morality might be made out with that clearness, that could leave, to a considering man, no more reason to doubt, than he could have to doubt of the truth of...