An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Volumen2Cummings & Hilliard and J. T. Buckingham, 1813 |
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... speaking . THE words , whereby it signifies what connection it gives to the several affirmations and negations , that it unites in one continued reasoning or narration , are generally called particles ; and it is in the right use of ...
... speaking . THE words , whereby it signifies what connection it gives to the several affirmations and negations , that it unites in one continued reasoning or narration , are generally called particles ; and it is in the right use of ...
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... speak the language of grammarians ) a substantive , the other an adjective : as whiteness , white ; sweetness , sweet . The like also holds in our ideas of modes and relations ; as justice , just ; equality , equal ; and with this ...
... speak the language of grammarians ) a substantive , the other an adjective : as whiteness , white ; sweetness , sweet . The like also holds in our ideas of modes and relations ; as justice , just ; equality , equal ; and with this ...
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... speaking of , has its cause more in the ideas they stand for , than in any incapacity there is in one sound more than in another , to signify any idea : for in that regard they are all equally perfect . That then which makes ...
... speaking of , has its cause more in the ideas they stand for , than in any incapacity there is in one sound more than in another , to signify any idea : for in that regard they are all equally perfect . That then which makes ...
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... speaking as clearly as language was capable to express their thoughts . § 10. Hence unavoidable obscurity in ancient authors , WHAT obscurity this has unavoidably brought upon the writings of men who have lived in remote ages and ...
... speaking as clearly as language was capable to express their thoughts . § 10. Hence unavoidable obscurity in ancient authors , WHAT obscurity this has unavoidably brought upon the writings of men who have lived in remote ages and ...
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... speak of : and so they usually conceive well enough the substances meant by the word gold , or apple , to distinguish the one from the other . But in philosophical inquiries and debates , where general truths are to be established , and ...
... speak of : and so they usually conceive well enough the substances meant by the word gold , or apple , to distinguish the one from the other . But in philosophical inquiries and debates , where general truths are to be established , and ...
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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...