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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... sense of old au- thors . CHAP . X. Of the abuse of words . SECT . 1. Abuse of words . 2 , 3. First , words without any , or without clear ideas . 4. Occasioned by learning names , before the ideas they belong to . 5. Secondly , a steady ...
... sense of old au- thors . CHAP . X. Of the abuse of words . SECT . 1. Abuse of words . 2 , 3. First , words without any , or without clear ideas . 4. Occasioned by learning names , before the ideas they belong to . 5. Secondly , a steady ...
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... sense to what is expressed , with a negation of all other . Thirdly , " you pray ; but it is not that God would bring you to the true religion . " Fourthly , " but that he would confirm you in your own . " The first of these Buts ...
... sense to what is expressed , with a negation of all other . Thirdly , " you pray ; but it is not that God would bring you to the true religion . " Fourthly , " but that he would confirm you in your own . " The first of these Buts ...
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... sense , and stood not for the abstract essence of any substance ; but was the abstracted name of a mode , and its concrete hu- manus , not homo . CHAP . IX . OF THE IMPERFECTION of words . CH . 8 . 19 ABSTRACT AND CONCRETE TERNS .
... sense , and stood not for the abstract essence of any substance ; but was the abstracted name of a mode , and its concrete hu- manus , not homo . CHAP . IX . OF THE IMPERFECTION of words . CH . 8 . 19 ABSTRACT AND CONCRETE TERNS .
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... sense of it , and by these eluci dations given rise or increase to his doubts , and drawn ob- scurity upon the place . I say not this , that I think com- mentaries needless ; but to show how uncertain the names of mixed modes naturally ...
... sense of it , and by these eluci dations given rise or increase to his doubts , and drawn ob- scurity upon the place . I say not this , that I think com- mentaries needless ; but to show how uncertain the names of mixed modes naturally ...
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... sense of old authors . Sure I am , that the signification of words in all lan- guages depending very much on the thoughts , notions , and ideas , of him that uses them , must unavoidably be of great uncertainty to men of the same ...
... sense of old authors . Sure I am , that the signification of words in all lan- guages depending very much on the thoughts , notions , and ideas , of him that uses them , must unavoidably be of great uncertainty to men of the same ...
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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...