An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Volume 2J. Johnson, W. J. and J. Richardson, W. Otridge and Son, F. C. and J. Rivington, D. Ogilvy and Son, Leigh and Sotheby, T. Payne, [and 11 others], and J. Mawman, 1805 - Knowledge, Theory of - 510 pages |
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... colours to a blind man , or sounds to a deaf man ; need not here be mentioned . In all these cases we shall find an imperfection in words , which I shall more at large explain , in their particular application to our several sorts of ...
... colours to a blind man , or sounds to a deaf man ; need not here be mentioned . In all these cases we shall find an imperfection in words , which I shall more at large explain , in their particular application to our several sorts of ...
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... colour and weight , yet another thinks solubility in aq . regia as necessary to be joined with that colour in his idea of gold , as any one does its fusibility ; solubility in aq . regia being a quality as constantly joined with its colour ...
... colour and weight , yet another thinks solubility in aq . regia as necessary to be joined with that colour in his idea of gold , as any one does its fusibility ; solubility in aq . regia being a quality as constantly joined with its colour ...
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... colour , joined with some other sensible qualities ) do well enough to design the things men would be understood to speak of : and so they usually conceive well enough the substances meant by the word gold , or apple , to distinguish ...
... colour , joined with some other sensible qualities ) do well enough to design the things men would be understood to speak of : and so they usually conceive well enough the substances meant by the word gold , or apple , to distinguish ...
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... colour will by fire be re- duced to fusion and not to ashes . Another by the same reason adds the weight , which being a quality , as straitly joined with that colour , as its fusibility , he thinks has the same reason to be joined in ...
... colour will by fire be re- duced to fusion and not to ashes . Another by the same reason adds the weight , which being a quality , as straitly joined with that colour , as its fusibility , he thinks has the same reason to be joined in ...
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... colour and humour be altered , till his tongue trips , and his eyes look red , and his feet fail him ; and yet not know , that it is to be called drunkenness . 3. I may have the ideas of virtues or vices , and names also , but apply ...
... colour and humour be altered , till his tongue trips , and his eyes look red , and his feet fail him ; and yet not know , that it is to be called drunkenness . 3. I may have the ideas of virtues or vices , and names also , but apply ...
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Page 102 - Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament ; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
Page 127 - It is evident the mind knows not things immediately, but only by the intervention of the ideas it has of them. Our knowledge therefore is real only so far as there is a conformity between our ideas and the reality of things.
Page 102 - 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.
Page 273 - Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal Father of light, and fountain of all knowledge, communicates to mankind that portion of truth which he has laid within the reach of their natural faculties: revelation is natural reason enlarged by a new set of discoveries communicated by God immediately, which reason vouches the truth of, by the testimony and proofs it gives, that they come from God.
Page 339 - I have mentioned mathematics as a way to settle in the mind a habit of reasoning closely and in train ; not that I think it necessary that all men should be deep mathematicians, but that, having got the way of reasoning which that study necessarily brings the mind to, they might be able to transfer it to other parts of knowledge, as they shall have occasion.
Page 201 - ... deserves the name of knowledge. If we persuade ourselves that our faculties act and inform us right concerning the existence of those objects that affect them, it cannot pass for an ill-grounded confidence: for I think nobody can, in earnest, be so sceptical as to be uncertain of the existence of those things which he sees and feels.
Page 163 - ... 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.
Page 438 - Heat is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts of the object, which produces in us that sensation, from whence we denominate the object hot ; so what in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing b,ut motion.
Page 69 - For if we reflect on our own ways of thinking, we shall find that sometimes the mind perceives the agreement or disagreement of two ideas immediately by themselves, without the intervention of any other: and this, I think, we may call intuitive knowledge.
Page 214 - For the ideas that ethics are conversant about being all real essences, and such as I imagine have a discoverable connexion and agreement one with another ; so far as we can find their habitudes and relations, so far we shall be possessed of certain, real, and general truths : and I doubt not, but, if a right method were taken, a great part of morality might be made out with that clearness, that could leave, to a considering man, no more reason to doubt, than he could have to doubt of the truth of...