An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: With Thoughts on the Conduct of Understanding ; Collated with Desmaizeaux's Ed. To which is Prefixed the Life of the AuthorMundell & Son, 1801 - 308 páginas |
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Página xxi
... least . For the Understanding , like the eye , judging of ob- jects only by its own fight , cannot but be pleased with what it difcovers , having lefs regret for what has escaped it , because it is unknown . Thus he who has raised ...
... least . For the Understanding , like the eye , judging of ob- jects only by its own fight , cannot but be pleased with what it difcovers , having lefs regret for what has escaped it , because it is unknown . Thus he who has raised ...
Página xxviii
... least fuch as are prepoffeffed , are willing to allow ; or whe- ther any obfcurity in my expreffions cafts a cloud over it , and thefe notions are made difficult to others appre- henfion in my way of treating them ; fo it is , that my ...
... least fuch as are prepoffeffed , are willing to allow ; or whe- ther any obfcurity in my expreffions cafts a cloud over it , and thefe notions are made difficult to others appre- henfion in my way of treating them ; fo it is , that my ...
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... least of his quali- fications . He advised him to turn his thoughts another way , and would not fuffer him to practife medicine out of his houfe , except among fome of his particular friends . He urged him to apply himself to the study ...
... least of his quali- fications . He advised him to turn his thoughts another way , and would not fuffer him to practife medicine out of his houfe , except among fome of his particular friends . He urged him to apply himself to the study ...
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... least apprehenfion or thought of them ; and the want of that is enough to deftroy that uni- verfal affent which muft needs be the neceffary conco- mitant of all innate truths ; it feeming to me near a contradiction to fay , that there ...
... least apprehenfion or thought of them ; and the want of that is enough to deftroy that uni- verfal affent which muft needs be the neceffary conco- mitant of all innate truths ; it feeming to me near a contradiction to fay , that there ...
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... least reafon- ing , embraced and aflented to . But I withal beg leave to obferve , that it lays open the weaknefs of this fubter- fuge , which requires the use of reafon for the difcovery of thefe general truths , fince it must be ...
... least reafon- ing , embraced and aflented to . But I withal beg leave to obferve , that it lays open the weaknefs of this fubter- fuge , which requires the use of reafon for the difcovery of thefe general truths , fince it must be ...
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Página xi - For if we will 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 64 - I would be understood to mean, that notice which the mind takes of its own operations, and the manner of them, by reason whereof there come to be ideas of these operations in the understanding.
Página 97 - ... some motion must be thence continued by our nerves or animal spirits, by some parts of our bodies, to the brain or the seat of sensation, there to produce in our minds the particular ideas we have of them.
Página 190 - ... 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. So that he that takes away reason to make way for revelation, puts out the light of both, and does muchwhat the same as if he would persuade a man to put out his eyes, the better to receive the remote light of an invisible star by a telescope.
Página 8 - From all which it is evident, that the extent of our knowledge comes not only short of the reality of things, but even of the extent of our own ideas.
Página 64 - ... got; which operations, when the soul comes to reflect on and consider, do furnish the understanding with another set of ideas which could not be had from things without; and such are perception, thinking, doubting, believing, reasoning...
Página 80 - When the understanding is once stored with these simple ideas, it has the power to repeat, compare, and unite them, even to an almost infinite variety, and so can make at pleasure new complex ideas.
Página 237 - ... 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 177 - I think it may not be amiss to take notice, that, however faith be opposed to reason, faith is nothing but a firm assent of the mind ; which, if it be regulated, as is our duty, cannot be afforded to any thing but upon good reason, and so cannot be opposite to it. He that believes without having any reason for believing, may be in love with his own fancies ; but neither seeks truth as he ought, nor pays the obedience due to his Maker...