An essay concerning human understanding. Also, extr. from the author's works, i. Analysis of mr. Locke's doctrine of ideas [&c.].1819 |
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... distinct and con . formable in substances . 11. Thirdly , propriety . 12. Fourthly to make known their meaning . 13. And that three ways . 14. First , in simple ideas by synonimous terms , THE CONTENTS . Enthusiasm 11 Secondly, received ...
... distinct and con . formable in substances . 11. Thirdly , propriety . 12. Fourthly to make known their meaning . 13. And that three ways . 14. First , in simple ideas by synonimous terms , THE CONTENTS . Enthusiasm 11 Secondly, received ...
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... distinct perceptions . . Thirdly , pleasure or pain , which accompanies actu . al sensation , accompa nies not the returning of those ideas , without the external objects . Fourthly , our senses as- ` sist one another's testi- timony of ...
... distinct perceptions . . Thirdly , pleasure or pain , which accompanies actu . al sensation , accompa nies not the returning of those ideas , without the external objects . Fourthly , our senses as- ` sist one another's testi- timony of ...
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... distinct ideas , with settled names , and the finding of those , which show their agree- ment , are the ways to en- large our knowlede . 15. Mathematics an instance of it . CHAP . XIII . Some other considerations con- cerning our ...
... distinct ideas , with settled names , and the finding of those , which show their agree- ment , are the ways to en- large our knowlede . 15. Mathematics an instance of it . CHAP . XIII . Some other considerations con- cerning our ...
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... distinct provinces . SECT . 1. Necessary to know their boun- daries . 2. Faith and reason what , as contra distinguished 3. No new simple idea can be conveyed by traditional re- velation . 4. Traditional revelation may make us know ...
... distinct provinces . SECT . 1. Necessary to know their boun- daries . 2. Faith and reason what , as contra distinguished 3. No new simple idea can be conveyed by traditional re- velation . 4. Traditional revelation may make us know ...
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... of a good style . To think well , it is not enough that a man has ideas clear and distinct in his thoughts , nor that he ob- serves the agreement or disagreement of some of them ; but he must think in train , and observe the dependence.
... of a good style . To think well , it is not enough that a man has ideas clear and distinct in his thoughts , nor that he ob- serves the agreement or disagreement of some of them ; but he must think in train , and observe the dependence.
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abstract ideas affirmed agree agreement or disagreement aqua regia assent bishop of Worcester body capable ceive centaur certainty changelings Cicero co-existence colour complex idea conceive concerning connexion consider credibility demonstration deny discourse disputes distinct ideas doubt equal eternal evident examine faculty of thinking faith farther gism give gold hath ideas of substances ideas they stand ignorance immaterial substance immortality imperfection inquiry intermediate ideas intuitive knowledge known language ledge lordship maxims men's mind mixed modes moral motion names of substances nature never nexion obscurity observe omnipotency opinions parcels of matter particles particular perceive perception precise primary qualities principles produce proofs propositions qualities real essence reason revelation Secondly self-evident sense simple ideas soever solid sort soul sounds species spirit supposed syllogism things thought tion triangle true truth understanding universal propositions unquestionable truths whereby wherein whereof whilst
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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 166 - ... neither oblique, nor rectangle, neither equilateral, equicrural, nor scalenon; but all and none of these at once. In effect, it is something imperfect, that cannot exist; an idea wherein some parts of several different and inconsistent ideas are put together.
Página 317 - ... and practice. I do not deny that natural disposition may often give the first rise to it ; but that never carries a man far without use and exercise, and it is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection.
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 68 - Since the mind, in all its thoughts and reasonings, hath no other immediate object but its own ideas, which it alone does or can contemplate, it is evident that our knowledge is only conversant about them.
Página 317 - 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...
Página 256 - ... eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive.
Página 134 - ... carry with them all the conformity which is intended, or which our state requires: for they represent to us things under those appearances which they are fitted to produce in us, whereby we are enabled to distinguish the sorts of particular substances, to discern the states they are in, and so to take them for our necessities, and to apply them to our uses.
Página 166 - For example, does it not require some pains and skill to form the general idea of a triangle ? (which is yet none of the most abstract comprehensive and difficult) ; for it must be neither oblique nor rectangle, neither equilateral, equicrural, nor scalenon, but all and none of these at once.
Página 69 - Where this perception is, there is knowledge; and where it is not, there, though we may fancy, guess, or believe, yet we always come short of knowledge. 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 that the three angles of a triangle...