An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Volumen1John Bumpus, 1824 - 668 páginas |
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... existence , 564 . 10 of the knowledge of the existence of a God , 565 . CHAP . 11 Of the knowledge of the existence of other things , 575 . 12 Of the improvement of our know- ledge , 582 . 18 Some other considerations con- cerning our ...
... existence , 564 . 10 of the knowledge of the existence of a God , 565 . CHAP . 11 Of the knowledge of the existence of other things , 575 . 12 Of the improvement of our know- ledge , 582 . 18 Some other considerations con- cerning our ...
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... existence of God , you thought it most proper to express yourself in the most usual and fami- liar way , by common words and expressions . I would you had done so quite through your book ; for then you had never given that occasion to ...
... existence of God , you thought it most proper to express yourself in the most usual and fami- liar way , by common words and expressions . I would you had done so quite through your book ; for then you had never given that occasion to ...
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... though upon my saying , in my chapter about the existence of God , ' That I scarce used the word idea in that whole chapter , ' your lordship wishes CHAPTER II . NO INNATE PRINCIPLES IN THE MIND . 6 Book 1 . INTRODUCTION .
... though upon my saying , in my chapter about the existence of God , ' That I scarce used the word idea in that whole chapter , ' your lordship wishes CHAPTER II . NO INNATE PRINCIPLES IN THE MIND . 6 Book 1 . INTRODUCTION .
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... existence of a God , yet he that shall content himself with things as he finds them in this world , as they minister to his pleasures and passions , and not make inquiry a little farther into their causes , ends , and admirable ...
... existence of a God , yet he that shall content himself with things as he finds them in this world , as they minister to his pleasures and passions , and not make inquiry a little farther into their causes , ends , and admirable ...
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... existence ; or , as your lordship well expresses it , we find that we can have no true conception of any modes or accidents , but we must conceive a substratum , or subject , wherein they are , i . e . that they can- not exist or ...
... existence ; or , as your lordship well expresses it , we find that we can have no true conception of any modes or accidents , but we must conceive a substratum , or subject , wherein they are , i . e . that they can- not exist or ...
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abstract ideas action agreement or disagreement amongst annexed answer aqua regia assent Bishop of Worcester body capable cerning certainty changeling clear and distinct colour complex idea conceive concerning connexion consciousness consider consists determined discourse distinct ideas distinguish doubt duration eternal evident existence extension faculties farther give gold happiness hath idea of infinite ideas of substances identity imagine immaterial infinity innate intuitive knowledge knowledge language liberty lordship material substance men's mind mixed modes motion nature never nominal essence obscure observe operations pain particles of matter particular perceive perception personal identity plain pleasure positive idea principles produce propositions real essence reason reflection relation resurrection sensation sense sensible qualities signification simple ideas solid sort soul sounds space speak species spirit stand substratum suppose things thoughts tion true truth understanding uneasiness universal propositions whereby wherein whereof whilst words
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Página 286 - Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die. And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain ; it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain. But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him ; and to every seed his own body.
Página 63 - ... the perception of the operations of our own minds within us, as it is employed about the ideas it has got ; which operations, when the soul comes to reflect on and consider, do furnish the understanding with another set of ideas which could not be had from things without ; and such are perception, thinking, doubting, believing, reasoning, knowing, willing, and all the different actings of our own minds...
Página 277 - And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
Página 63 - ... convey into the mind several distinct perceptions of things according to those various ways wherein those objects do affect them: And thus we come by those ideas we have of yellow, white, heat, cold, soft, hard, bitter, sweet, and all those which we call sensible qualities; which when I say the senses convey into the mind, I mean they from external objects convey into the mind what produces there those perceptions. This great source of most of the ideas we have, depending wholly upon our senses,...
Página 496 - As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.
Página 545 - ... 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 4 - For I thought that the first step towards satisfying several inquiries, the mind of man was very apt to run into, was, to take a survey of our own understandings, examine our own powers, and see to what things they were adapted.
Página x - Newton, with some others of that strain ; it is ambition enough to be employed as an under-labourer in clearing the ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish that lies in the way to knowledge...
Página 113 - I can discover, are the windows by which light is let into this dark room; for methinks the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly shut from light, with only some little openings left to let in external visible resemblances, or ideas of things without: would the pictures coming into such a dark room but stay there, and lie so orderly as to be found upon occasion, it would very much resemble the understanding...
Página 94 - First, the bulk, figure, number, situation, and motion or rest of their solid parts. Those are in them, whether we perceive them or no; and when they are of that size that we can discover them, we have by these an idea of the thing as it is in itself, as is plain in artificial things. These I call primary qualities. Secondly, the power that is in any body, by reason of its insensible primary qualities, to operate after a peculiar manner on any of our senses, and thereby produce in us the different...