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... distinct ideas . 4. Dangerous to build upon precarious principles .. 5. This no certain way to truth . 6. But to compare clear , complete ideas under stea dy names . 7. The true method of ad- vancing knowledge , is 7. The The CONTENTS .
... distinct ideas . 4. Dangerous to build upon precarious principles .. 5. This no certain way to truth . 6. But to compare clear , complete ideas under stea dy names . 7. The true method of ad- vancing knowledge , is 7. The The CONTENTS .
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... true use of hypothe ses . 14. Clear and distinct ideas , with settled names , and the finding of those , which show their agreement or disagreement , are the ways to enlarge our knowledge . 15. Mathematics an instance of it . CHAP ...
... true use of hypothe ses . 14. Clear and distinct ideas , with settled names , and the finding of those , which show their agreement or disagreement , are the ways to enlarge our knowledge . 15. Mathematics an instance of it . CHAP ...
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... true or false , according as such a kind of divisibility , a divisibility into such aliquot parts , does really agree to that line or no . When ideas are so put together , or separated in the mind , as they or the things they stand for ...
... true or false , according as such a kind of divisibility , a divisibility into such aliquot parts , does really agree to that line or no . When ideas are so put together , or separated in the mind , as they or the things they stand for ...
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... true propositions made about them . And it will be altogether as true a proposition to say all centaurs are animals , as that all men are animals ; and the certainty of one as great as the other . For in both the propositions , the ...
... true propositions made about them . And it will be altogether as true a proposition to say all centaurs are animals , as that all men are animals ; and the certainty of one as great as the other . For in both the propositions , the ...
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... true , where the essence of each species mentioned is not known . § . 4. Now because we cannot be certain of the truth of any general proposition , un- less we know the precise bounds and extent of the species its terms stand for , it ...
... true , where the essence of each species mentioned is not known . § . 4. Now because we cannot be certain of the truth of any general proposition , un- less we know the precise bounds and extent of the species its terms stand for , it ...
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Page 136 - 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 203 - 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.30 For in all sorts of reasoning every single argument should be managed as a mathematical demonstration; the connection and dependence of ideas...
Page 26 - ... 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 195 - ... supple and his natural parts not any way inferior. The legs of a dancing-master and the fingers of a musician fall as it were naturally without thought or pains into regular and admirable motions. Bid them change their parts, and they will in vain...
Page 127 - Thou art, of what sort the eternal life of the saints was to be, which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive.
Page 67 - But yet, if after all this any one will be so sceptical as to distrust his senses, and to affirm that all we see and hear, feel and taste, think and do, during our whole being, is but the series and deluding appearances of a long dream, whereof there is no reality...
Page 196 - ... 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.
Page 300 - 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 but motion.
Page 64 - ... 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 188 - Temples have their sacred images, and we see what influence they have always had over a great part of mankind. But, in truth, the ideas and images in men's, minds are the invisible powers that constantly govern them ; and to these they all universally pay a ready submission.