An Abridgment of Mr. Locke's Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingRobert and Andrew Foulis, 1752 - 270 páginas |
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Página 106
... examining . The confufion of two different ideas which a customary connexion of them in their minds hath to them in effect made but one , cannot but fill mens heads with false views , and their reafonings with falfe confequences ...
... examining . The confufion of two different ideas which a customary connexion of them in their minds hath to them in effect made but one , cannot but fill mens heads with false views , and their reafonings with falfe confequences ...
Página 112
... examine whether their ideas and those of o- ther men be the fame ; they think it enough that they use the word in the common acceptation of that Language . Secondly , They fuppofe their words to stand also for the reality of things.ka ...
... examine whether their ideas and those of o- ther men be the fame ; they think it enough that they use the word in the common acceptation of that Language . Secondly , They fuppofe their words to stand also for the reality of things.ka ...
Página 122
... examined . The Act of Perfpicuous , as far forth as perfpicu cus , is another Peripatetick definition of a fimple i dea , which it is certain can never make the mean- ing of the word Light , which it pretends to < 122 )
... examined . The Act of Perfpicuous , as far forth as perfpicu cus , is another Peripatetick definition of a fimple i dea , which it is certain can never make the mean- ing of the word Light , which it pretends to < 122 )
Página 130
... examine but the ftones we tread on , or the iron we daily handle : we foon find that we know not their make , and can give no reason of the different qua lities we find in them ; and yet how infinitely thefe come short of the fine ...
... examine but the ftones we tread on , or the iron we daily handle : we foon find that we know not their make , and can give no reason of the different qua lities we find in them ; and yet how infinitely thefe come short of the fine ...
Página 135
... examine it in its full latitude . I intend not here a full explication of this fort of Signs , the inftances I have given in this one , may give occafion to reflect on their use and force . in language , and lead us into the ...
... examine it in its full latitude . I intend not here a full explication of this fort of Signs , the inftances I have given in this one , may give occafion to reflect on their use and force . in language , and lead us into the ...
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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.