An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: With Thoughts on the Conduct of the Understanding, Volúmenes1-3Mundell, 1801 - 308 páginas |
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... taken for so much of either as are fet out by the Existence and Motion of Bodies . 7. Sometimes for so much of either as we design by Mea- fures taken from the Bulk or Motion of Bodies . 8. They belong to all Beings . 9. All the Parts ...
... taken for so much of either as are fet out by the Existence and Motion of Bodies . 7. Sometimes for so much of either as we design by Mea- fures taken from the Bulk or Motion of Bodies . 8. They belong to all Beings . 9. All the Parts ...
Página xxi
... taken with it now it is done . He that hawks at larks and sparrows , has no lefs fport , though a much less confiderable quarry , than he that flies at nobler game : And he is little acquainted with the subject of this treatise , the ...
... taken with it now it is done . He that hawks at larks and sparrows , has no lefs fport , though a much less confiderable quarry , than he that flies at nobler game : And he is little acquainted with the subject of this treatise , the ...
Página xlii
... taken to prevent it . He faid , " that the nation was in greater danger " from a fecret unobferved abufe , than from all thofe " other evils of which perfons were generally fo ap " prehenfive ; and that if care was not taken to rec ...
... taken to prevent it . He faid , " that the nation was in greater danger " from a fecret unobferved abufe , than from all thofe " other evils of which perfons were generally fo ap " prehenfive ; and that if care was not taken to rec ...
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... taken for granted , than that there are certain principles , both fpeculative and practical ( for they fpeak of both ) , univerfally agreed upon by all mankind , which therefore , they argue , muft needs be conftant impreffions , which ...
... taken for granted , than that there are certain principles , both fpeculative and practical ( for they fpeak of both ) , univerfally agreed upon by all mankind , which therefore , they argue , muft needs be conftant impreffions , which ...
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... taken notice of by the mind , and that as foon as children come to the ufe of reafon they come alfo to know and affent to these maxims , this al- fo is falfe and frivolous . First , It is falfe , because it is evident these maxims are ...
... taken notice of by the mind , and that as foon as children come to the ufe of reafon they come alfo to know and affent to these maxims , this al- fo is falfe and frivolous . First , It is falfe , because it is evident these maxims are ...
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Página 250 - ... harangues and popular addresses, they are certainly, in all discourses that pretend to inform or instruct, wholly to be avoided ; and, where truth and knowledge are concerned, cannot but be thought a great fault either of the language or person 'that makes use of them.
Página 264 - This is that which I think great readers are apt to be mistaken in. Those who have read of everything are thought to understand everything too; but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking makes what we read ours.
Página 47 - 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 140 - ... do not appear to me to have lost the faculty of reasoning ; but having joined together some ideas very wrongly, they mistake them for truths, and they err as men do that argue right from wrong principles.
Página 9 - It shall suffice to my present purpose to consider the discerning faculties of a man as they are employed about the objects which they have to do with...
Página 145 - When therefore we quit particulars, the generals that rest are only creatures of our own making, their general nature being nothing but the capacity they are put into by the understanding of signifying or representing many particulars. For the signification they have is nothing but a relation that by the mind of man is added to them.
Página 133 - That which thus captivates their reasons, and leads men of sincerity blindfold from common sense, will, when examined, be found to be what we are speaking of; some independent ideas, of no alliance to one another, 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 227 - So that the idea of liberty is the idea of a power in any agent to do or forbear any particular action, according to the determination or thought of the mind, whereby either of them is preferred to the other...
Página 18 - But whether there be anything more than barely that idea in our minds, whether we can thence certainly infer the existence of anything without us which corresponds to that idea, is that whereof some men think there may be a question made; because men may have such ideas in their minds when no such thing exists, no such object affects their senses.
Página 139 - If it may be doubted, whether beasts compound and enlarge their ideas that way, to any degree: this, I think, I may be positive in, that the power of abstracting is not at all in them; and that the having of general ideas, is that which puts a perfect distinction betwixt man and brutes; and is an excellency which the faculties of brutes do by no means attain to.