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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John Locke. 13. In our inquiries about sub- stances , we must consider ideas , and not confine our thoughts to names , species supposed set out by names . or 14 , 15. Objection against a change- ling being something be- tween man and ...
John Locke. 13. In our inquiries about sub- stances , we must consider ideas , and not confine our thoughts to names , species supposed set out by names . or 14 , 15. Objection against a change- ling being something be- tween man and ...
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... consider it in all the places it is to be found : which if one should do , I doubt , whether in all those manners it is made use of , it would deserve the title of discretive , which grammarians give to it . But I intend not here a full ...
... consider it in all the places it is to be found : which if one should do , I doubt , whether in all those manners it is made use of , it would deserve the title of discretive , which grammarians give to it . But I intend not here a full ...
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... consider their use and end : for as they are more or less fitted to attain that , so they are more or less perfect . We have , in the former part of this discourse , often upon occasion men tioned a double use of words . First , one for ...
... consider their use and end : for as they are more or less fitted to attain that , so they are more or less perfect . We have , in the former part of this discourse , often upon occasion men tioned a double use of words . First , one for ...
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... consider a little more exactly the fore - mentioned instance of the word gold , and we shall see how hard it is precisely to determine its signification . I think all agree to make it stand for a body of a certain yellow shining colour ...
... consider a little more exactly the fore - mentioned instance of the word gold , and we shall see how hard it is precisely to determine its signification . I think all agree to make it stand for a body of a certain yellow shining colour ...
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... consider a little the degrees of its evidence . The different clearness of our knowledge seems to me to lie in the different way of perception the mind has of the agreement or disagreement of any of its ideas . For if we reflect on our ...
... consider a little the degrees of its evidence . The different clearness of our knowledge seems to me to lie in the different way of perception the mind has of the agreement or disagreement of any of its ideas . For if we reflect on our ...
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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...