An essay concerning human understanding. To which are now added, i. analysis of mr. Locke's doctrine of ideas [&c.].1824 |
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... whereby it signifies In them con- what connexion it gives to the several affirm- sists the art ations and negations , that it unites in one of well- continued reasoning or narration , are gene- speaking . rally called particles ; and it ...
... whereby it signifies In them con- what connexion it gives to the several affirm- sists the art ations and negations , that it unites in one of well- continued reasoning or narration , are gene- speaking . rally called particles ; and it ...
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... whereby the sorts of things are distinguished . Now each abstract idea being distinct , so that of any two the one can never be the other , the mind will , by its intuitive know- ledge , perceive their difference ; and therefore in pro ...
... whereby the sorts of things are distinguished . Now each abstract idea being distinct , so that of any two the one can never be the other , the mind will , by its intuitive know- ledge , perceive their difference ; and therefore in pro ...
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... whereby , as it were , we talk to ourselves , any words will serve the turn . For since sounds are voluntary and indifferent signs of any ideas , a man may use what words he pleases , to signify his own ideas to himself : and there will ...
... whereby , as it were , we talk to ourselves , any words will serve the turn . For since sounds are voluntary and indifferent signs of any ideas , a man may use what words he pleases , to signify his own ideas to himself : and there will ...
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... whereby men may rectify and adjust have no their significations ; therefore they are very various and doubtful . They are assemblages of ideas put together at the pleasure of the mind , pursuing its own ends of discourse , and suited to ...
... whereby men may rectify and adjust have no their significations ; therefore they are very various and doubtful . They are assemblages of ideas put together at the pleasure of the mind , pursuing its own ends of discourse , and suited to ...
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... whereby the signi- fication of that name must unavoidably be very uncer- tain ; since , as has been said , several people observe se- veral properties in the same substance ; and , I think , I may say nobody at all . And therefore we ...
... whereby the signi- fication of that name must unavoidably be very uncer- tain ; since , as has been said , several people observe se- veral properties in the same substance ; and , I think , I may say nobody at all . And therefore we ...
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abstract ideas Æneid affirmed agree agreement or disagreement annexed aqua regia assent bishop of Worcester body called capable cerning certainty changelings co-existence colour complex idea conceive concerning connexion consider demonstration discourse discover disputes distinct ideas doubt equal errour eternal evidence examine faculty of thinking faith farther gism give gold hath ideas they stand ignorance immaterial substance immortality imperfection inquiry intermediate ideas intuitive knowledge known language ledge less lordship maxims men's ment mind moral motion names of substances natural philosophy nature neral never nexion observe opinions particles particular perceive perception principles probability produce proofs propositions qualities rational real essence reason repug revelation rience Secondly self-evident sense signification simple ideas soever sort soul sounds species spirit stances suppose syllogism things thought tion triangle true truth understanding universal propositions unquestionable truths whereby wherein whereof whilst words
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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 69 - This part of knowledge is irresistible, and, like bright sunshine, forces itself immediately to be perceived as soon as ever the mind turns its view that way; and leaves no room for hesitation, doubt or examination, but the mind is presently filled with the clear light of it.
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.30 For in all sorts of reasoning every single argument should be managed as a mathematical demonstration; the connection and dependence of ideas...
Página 81 - For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts ; even one thing befalleth them : as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath ; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast : for all is vanity. All go unto one place ; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Página 41 - But yet if we would speak of things as they are, we must allow that all the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness, all the artificial and figurative application of words eloquence hath invented, are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgment, and so indeed are perfect cheats...
Página 297 - The consideration then of ideas and words, as the great instruments of knowledge, makes no despicable part of their contemplation, who would take a view of human knowledge in the whole extent of it. And, perhaps, if they were distinctly weighed, and duly considered, they would afford us another sort of logic and critic, than what we have been hitherto acquainted with.
Página 332 - As it is in the body, so it is in the mind, practice makes it what it is ; and most even of those excellencies which are looked on as natural endowments, will be found, when examined into more narrowly, to be the product of exercise, and to be raised to that pitch only by repeated actions.
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 82 - ... For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?