An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Volumen1John Bumpus, 1824 - 668 páginas |
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... speak free- ly of those , who with a feigned modesty condemn as useless , what they themselves write , methinks it savours much more of vanity or insolence , to publish a book for any other end ; and he fails very much of that respect ...
... speak free- ly of those , who with a feigned modesty condemn as useless , what they themselves write , methinks it savours much more of vanity or insolence , to publish a book for any other end ; and he fails very much of that respect ...
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... speak , or those who hear them , that they are but the covers of igno- rance , and hinderance of true knowledge . To break in upon the sanctuary of vanity and ignorance , will be , I suppose , some ser- vice to human understanding ...
... speak , or those who hear them , that they are but the covers of igno- rance , and hinderance of true knowledge . To break in upon the sanctuary of vanity and ignorance , will be , I suppose , some ser- vice to human understanding ...
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... speak of both ) , uni- versally agreed upon by all mankind ; which , therefore , they argue , must needs be constant impressions , which the souls of men receive in their first beings , and which they bring into the world with them , as ...
... speak of both ) , uni- versally agreed upon by all mankind ; which , therefore , they argue , must needs be constant impressions , which the souls of men receive in their first beings , and which they bring into the world with them , as ...
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... speak of assent , up- on the first proposing , more particularly by and by . Ishall here only , and that very readily , allow , that these maxims , and mathematical demonstrations , are in this different ; that the one have need of ...
... speak of assent , up- on the first proposing , more particularly by and by . Ishall here only , and that very readily , allow , that these maxims , and mathematical demonstrations , are in this different ; that the one have need of ...
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... speak , the difference between the ideas of sweet and bitter ( i . e . that sweet is not bitter ) , as it knows afterwards ( when it comes to speak ) that wormwood and sugar - plumbs are not the same thing . § 16. A child knows not that ...
... speak , the difference between the ideas of sweet and bitter ( i . e . that sweet is not bitter ) , as it knows afterwards ( when it comes to speak ) that wormwood and sugar - plumbs are not the same thing . § 16. A child knows not that ...
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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...