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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... Intuitive . 2. Demonstrative . 3. Depends on proofs . 4. But not so easy . 5. Not without precedent doubt . 6. Not so clear . 7. Each step must have in- tuitive evidence 8. Hence the mistake ex præcognitis & præcon- cessis . 9 ...
... Intuitive . 2. Demonstrative . 3. Depends on proofs . 4. But not so easy . 5. Not without precedent doubt . 6. Not so clear . 7. Each step must have in- tuitive evidence 8. Hence the mistake ex præcognitis & præcon- cessis . 9 ...
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... intuitive , without reasoning . 17. Intuition , demonstration , judg ment . 18. Consequences of words , and consequences of ideas . 19. Four sorts of arguments : first , ad verecundiam . 20. Secondly , ad ignorantiam . 21. Thirdly , ad ...
... intuitive , without reasoning . 17. Intuition , demonstration , judg ment . 18. Consequences of words , and consequences of ideas . 19. Four sorts of arguments : first , ad verecundiam . 20. Secondly , ad ignorantiam . 21. Thirdly , ad ...
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... intuitive know- ledge , perceive their difference ; and therefore in proposi tions no two whole ideas can ever be affirmed one of an- other . This we see in the common use of language , which permits not any two abstract words , or ...
... intuitive know- ledge , perceive their difference ; and therefore in proposi tions no two whole ideas can ever be affirmed one of an- other . This we see in the common use of language , which permits not any two abstract words , or ...
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... intuitive knowledge ; where the ideas themselves , by an immediate view , discover their agreement or disagreement one with another . Secondly , the other is of such truths whereof the mind having been convinced , it retains the memory ...
... intuitive knowledge ; where the ideas themselves , by an immediate view , discover their agreement or disagreement one with another . Secondly , the other is of such truths whereof the mind having been convinced , it retains the memory ...
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... Intuitive . LL our knowledge consisting , as I have said , in the view the mind has of its own ideas , which is the ... intuition , without the intervention of any other idea ; and this kind of knowledge is the clearest and most certain ...
... Intuitive . LL our knowledge consisting , as I have said , in the view the mind has of its own ideas , which is the ... intuition , without the intervention of any other idea ; and this kind of knowledge is the clearest and most certain ...
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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...