An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Volumen2Cummings & Hilliard and J. T. Buckingham, 1813 |
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... consequences drawn from positions laid down ; there the precise signification of the names of substances will be found , not only not to be well established , but also very hard to be So. For example , he that shall make malleableness ...
... consequences drawn from positions laid down ; there the precise signification of the names of substances will be found , not only not to be well established , but also very hard to be So. For example , he that shall make malleableness ...
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... consequences that follow from them . § 19. And next to them simple modes . By the same rule , the names of simple modes are , next to those of simple ideas , least liable to doubt and uncertainty , especially those of figure and number ...
... consequences that follow from them . § 19. And next to them simple modes . By the same rule , the names of simple modes are , next to those of simple ideas , least liable to doubt and uncertainty , especially those of figure and number ...
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... consequence to that article of faith : on the other fide , perhaps others , with me , may think it a defence a- gainst error , and so ( as being of good use ) to be received and adhered to . I would not , my lord , be hereby thought to ...
... consequence to that article of faith : on the other fide , perhaps others , with me , may think it a defence a- gainst error , and so ( as being of good use ) to be received and adhered to . I would not , my lord , be hereby thought to ...
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... consequence to an article of faith . Whether then I am or am not mistaken , in the placing certainty in the per- ception of the agreement or disagreement of ideas ; whether this account of knowledge be true or false , enlarges or ...
... consequence to an article of faith . Whether then I am or am not mistaken , in the placing certainty in the per- ception of the agreement or disagreement of ideas ; whether this account of knowledge be true or false , enlarges or ...
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... consequences or co - existence of any secon- dary qualities , though we could discover the size , figure or motion of those invisible parts which immediately produce them . We are so far from knowing what figure , size , or motion of ...
... consequences or co - existence of any secon- dary qualities , though we could discover the size , figure or motion of those invisible parts which immediately produce them . We are so far from knowing what figure , size , or motion of ...
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abstract ideas Æneid affirmed agreement or disagreement Anſwer aqua regia argument assent becauſe body called capable certainty changelings co-existence color complex idea conceive concerning connection consider demonstration discourse discover disputes distinct ideas doubt equal eternal evidence examine existence faith farther foul gism give gold hath ideas they stand ignorance immaterial ſubſtance immortality imperfection inquiry intermediate ideas intuitive knowledge itſelf judgement knowl lordſhip matter maxims men's ment mind mixed modes moral motion muſt names of substances natural philosophy nature never observe opinions particular perceive perception perfect pleaſes principles probability produce proofs propositions qualities rational real essence reaſon received religion revelation ſay SECONDLY self-evident sense ſhall ſhould ſhow signification simple ideas sort species ſpirit spirits suppose syllogism theſe things thoſe thought tion true truth understanding universal propositions unquestionable truth uſe whereby wherein whereof words
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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...