An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Volumen2Cummings & Hilliard and J. T. Buckingham, 1813 |
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... believe , or laws we are to obey , and draw in- conveniences on us when we mistake or transgress , we may be less anxious about the sense of other authors ; who writing but their own opinions , we are under no greater necessity to know ...
... believe , or laws we are to obey , and draw in- conveniences on us when we mistake or transgress , we may be less anxious about the sense of other authors ; who writing but their own opinions , we are under no greater necessity to know ...
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... believe it is very seldom that in speaker and hearer they stand for exactly the same collection . Which must needs produce mistakes and disputes , when they are made use of in discourses , wherein men have to do with universal ...
... believe it is very seldom that in speaker and hearer they stand for exactly the same collection . Which must needs produce mistakes and disputes , when they are made use of in discourses , wherein men have to do with universal ...
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... believe , yet we always come short of knowl- edge . For when we know that white is not black , what do we else but perceive that these two ideas do not agree ? when we possess ourselves with the utmost security of the demonstration ...
... believe , yet we always come short of knowl- edge . For when we know that white is not black , what do we else but perceive that these two ideas do not agree ? when we possess ourselves with the utmost security of the demonstration ...
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... believe that Jefus Chrift was crucified , dead , and buried , rose again the third day from the dead , and ascended into heaven : let now fuch methods of knowledge or certainty be started , as leave men's minds more doubtful than before ...
... believe that Jefus Chrift was crucified , dead , and buried , rose again the third day from the dead , and ascended into heaven : let now fuch methods of knowledge or certainty be started , as leave men's minds more doubtful than before ...
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... believe his memory than really to know , and this way of entertaining a truth seemed formerly to me like something between opinion and knowledge ; a sort of assur- ance which exceeds bare belief , for that relies on the testimony of ...
... believe his memory than really to know , and this way of entertaining a truth seemed formerly to me like something between opinion and knowledge ; a sort of assur- ance which exceeds bare belief , for that relies on the testimony of ...
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Página 71 - 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 125 - 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 249 - 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...
Página 301 - Nobody is made any thing by hearing of rules, or laying them up in his memory ; practice must settle the habit of doing without reflecting on the rule : and you may as well hope to make a good painter or musician extempore by a lecture and instruction in the arts of music and painting, as a coherent thinker, or strict reasoner, by a set of rules, shewing him wherein right reasoning consists.
Página 126 - Is it true of the idea of a triangle, that its three angles are equal to two right ones ? It is true also of a triangle, wherever it really exists.
Página 270 - 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 248 - ... themselves that they are so. How a man may know whether he be so in earnest, is worth inquiry : and I think there is this one unerring mark of it, viz., the not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.
Página 178 - God. —Thus from the consideration of ourselves, and what we infallibly find in our own constitutions, our reason leads us to the knowledge of this certain and evident truth, that there is an eternal, most powerful, and most knowing Being ; which whether any one will please to call " God," it matters not. The thing is evident; and from this idea duly considered, will easily be deduced all those other attributes which we ought to ascribe to this Eternal Being.
Página 392 - Heat is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts of the object, which produces in us that sensation, from whence we denominate the object hot ; so what in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion.
Página 45 - 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...