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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... 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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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...