An essay concerning human understanding. Also, extr. from the author's works, i. Analysis of mr. Locke's doctrine of ideas [&c.].for D. McVean, 1819 |
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... motion or at rest . 18 , 19. Matter not co - eternal with an eternal mind . 8. This certainty is as great as our condition needs . 9. But reaches no farther than actual sensation . 10. Folly to expect demon- stration in every thing . 11 ...
... motion or at rest . 18 , 19. Matter not co - eternal with an eternal mind . 8. This certainty is as great as our condition needs . 9. But reaches no farther than actual sensation . 10. Folly to expect demon- stration in every thing . 11 ...
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... motion , and upon examination found , that the signfication of that word was not so settled and certain as they had all imagined ; but that each of them made it a sign of a different complex idea . This made them perceive that the main ...
... motion , and upon examination found , that the signfication of that word was not so settled and certain as they had all imagined ; but that each of them made it a sign of a different complex idea . This made them perceive that the main ...
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... motion of the organs of speech , for B ; which is agreed on to stand for another modification of sound , made by another certain mode of the organs of speech . § . 12. This art has perplexed religion and justice . Nor hath this mischief ...
... motion of the organs of speech , for B ; which is agreed on to stand for another modification of sound , made by another certain mode of the organs of speech . § . 12. This art has perplexed religion and justice . Nor hath this mischief ...
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... motion in their atoms when at rest . There is scarce any sect in philosophy has not a distinct set of terms , that others understand not ; but yet this gib- berish , which in the weakness of human understanding , serves so well to ...
... motion in their atoms when at rest . There is scarce any sect in philosophy has not a distinct set of terms , that others understand not ; but yet this gib- berish , which in the weakness of human understanding , serves so well to ...
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... motion , be alive or no ; it is easy to perceive that a clear distinct settled idea does not always accompany the use of so known a word as that of life is . Some gross and confused conceptions men indeed ordinarily have , to which they ...
... motion , be alive or no ; it is easy to perceive that a clear distinct settled idea does not always accompany the use of so known a word as that of life is . Some gross and confused conceptions men indeed ordinarily have , to which they ...
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An essay concerning human understanding. Also extr. from the author's works ... John Locke Vista de fragmentos - 1815 |
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Página 133 - 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 120 - The idea of a supreme Being, infinite in power, goodness, and wisdom, whose workmanship we are and on whom we depend, and the idea of ourselves as understanding rational beings, being such as are clear in us, would, I suppose, if duly considered and pursued, afford such foundations of our duty and rules of action as might place morality amongst the sciences capable of demonstration: wherein I doubt not but from self-evident propositions, by necessary consequences as incontestable as those in mathematics,...
Página 265 - 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. So that he that takes away reason, to make way for revelation, puts out the light of both...
Página 239 - But God has not been so sparing to men to make them barely two-legged creatures, and left it to Aristotle to make them rational...
Página 78 - 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 321 - Just so it is in the mind; would you have a man reason well, you must use him to it betimes, exercise his mind in observing the connection of ideas and following them in train. Nothing does this better than mathematics, which therefore I think should be taught all those who have the time and opportunity, not so much to make them mathematicians as to make them reasonable creatures...
Página 286 - 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 263 - I think there is one unerring mark of it, viz. the not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance, than the proofs it is built upon will warrant. Whoever goes beyond this measure of assent, it is plain, receives not truth in the love of it; loves not truth for truth's sake, but for some other by-end.
Página 236 - THE word reason in the English language has different significations: sometimes it is taken for true ami clear principles; sometimes for clear and fair deductions from those principles ; and sometimes for the cause, and particularly the final cause. But the consideration I shall have of it here, is in a signification different from all these: and that is, as it stands for a faculty in man, that faculty whereby man is supposed to be distinguished from beasts, and wherein it is evident he much surpasses...
Página 89 - God can, if He pleases, superadd to matter a faculty of thinking, than that He should superadd to it another substance with a faculty of thinking...