An Abridgment of Mr. Locke's Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingRobert and Andrew Foulis, 1752 - 270 páginas |
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... clear or diftinct perceptions , or whereof ( as it has perhaps too often happened ) we have not any notions at all but should learn to content our felves with what is attainable by us in this ftate . : 5. For though the Comprehenfion of ...
... clear or diftinct perceptions , or whereof ( as it has perhaps too often happened ) we have not any notions at all but should learn to content our felves with what is attainable by us in this ftate . : 5. For though the Comprehenfion of ...
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... clear resolution , are proper only to continue and increase their doubts , " and to confirm them at laft in perfect feepticism . Whereas were the capacities of our understandings well confidered , the extent of our knowledge once ...
... clear resolution , are proper only to continue and increase their doubts , " and to confirm them at laft in perfect feepticism . Whereas were the capacities of our understandings well confidered , the extent of our knowledge once ...
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... clear or perfect ideas of the greatest part of them all their lives . Because , tho ' they pafs there continually ; yet , like floating visions , they make not deep impref- fions enough to leave in the mind clear and last- ing ideas ...
... clear or perfect ideas of the greatest part of them all their lives . Because , tho ' they pafs there continually ; yet , like floating visions , they make not deep impref- fions enough to leave in the mind clear and last- ing ideas ...
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... clear and diftinct ideas : and that they can think on Space without any thing in it that refifts , or is pro- truded by body , as well as on fomething that fills Space , that can be protruded by the impulse of o- ther bodies , or refift ...
... clear and diftinct ideas : and that they can think on Space without any thing in it that refifts , or is pro- truded by body , as well as on fomething that fills Space , that can be protruded by the impulse of o- ther bodies , or refift ...
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... clear and pofitive ideas . The natural reason of which may be this , viz . that since sensation is pro- duc'd only by different degrees and modes of moti- on in our animal spirits , variously agitated by ex- ternal objects ; the ...
... clear and pofitive ideas . The natural reason of which may be this , viz . that since sensation is pro- duc'd only by different degrees and modes of moti- on in our animal spirits , variously agitated by ex- ternal objects ; the ...
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abstract ideas actions Affent Affurance agreement or difagreement alfo alſo becauſe body cafes caufe cauſe Certainty Chap cife clear colour complex ideas confider confideration confifts connexion deas Demonftration diftinct ideas diſcover diſtinguiſh eafily elſe exift Exiſtence Extenfion faculties faid fame feems felf felves fenfation fenfes fenfible ferve feve feveral fhall fhew fignification figns fimple ideas fince firft firſt folidity fome fomething fometimes forts fpecies ftand fubftance fubject fuch fuppofe himſelf impoffible inftance intuitive Knowledge Knowledge leaſt ledge lefs meaſure mind mixed Modes moſt motion muft muſt names neceffary neral nominal Effence obferve occafion pain particular perceive Perception perfon pleaſure poffible pofition prefent produce Propofitions qualities Reafon real Effences Revelation Secondly ſelf Senfes ſeveral ſhall ſhould ſtand thefe themſelves ther theſe things Thirdly thofe ideas thoſe thoughts tion Truth underſtanding univerfal uſe whereby wherein whereof whofe words
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Página 57 - This power which the mind has thus to order the consideration of any idea, or the forbearing to consider it; or to prefer the motion of any part of the body to its rest, and vice versa, in any particular instance; is that which we call the will. The actual exercise of that power, by directing any particular action, or its forbearance, is that which we call volition or willing.
Página 102 - ... continue in the same steps they have been used to, which by often treading are worn into a smooth path, and the motion in it becomes easy, and as it were natural.
Página 204 - I mean there is such a knowledge within our reach which we cannot miss, if we will but apply our minds to that, as we do to several other .inquiries.
Página 160 - By which it is plain, that every step in reasoning that produces knowledge has intuitive certainty ; which when the mind perceives, there is no more required, but to remember it to make the agreement or disagreement of the ideas, concerning which we inquire, visible and certain. So that to...
Página 102 - As far as we can comprehend thinking, thus ideas seem to be produced in our minds; or if they are not, this may serve to explain their following one another in an habitual train when once they are put into that track, as well as it does to explain such motions of the body.
Página 58 - All the actions that we have any idea of, reducing themselves, as has been said, to these two, viz. thinking and motion, so far as a man has a power to think or not to think, to move or not to move, according to the preference or direction of his own mind, so far is a man free.
Página 247 - Whatever God hath revealed is certainly true : no doubt can be made of it. This is the proper object of faith ; but whether it be a divine revelation or no, reason must judge...
Página 202 - If therefore we know there is some real being, and that non-entity cannot produce any real being, it is an evident demonstration, that from eternity there has been something; since what was not from eternity, had a beginning; and what had a beginning, must be produced by something else.
Página 104 - ... are by education, custom, and the constant din of their party, so coupled in their minds, that they always appear there together; and they can no more separate them in their thoughts, than if they were but one idea, and they operate as if they were so.
Página 24 - ... no more the likeness of something existing without us, than the names that stand for them are the likeness of our ideas, which yet upon hearing they are apt to excite in us.