An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: To which are Now First Added, I. An Analysis of Mr. Locke's Doctrine of Ideas, on a Large Sheet. II. A Defence of Mr. Locke's Opinion Concerning Personal Identity, with an Appendix. III. A Treatise on the Conduct of the Understanding. IV. Some Thoughts Concerning Reading and Study for a Gentleman. V. Elements of Natural Philosophy. VI. A New Method of a Common Place-book Extracted from the Author's Works, Volume 2T. Tegg, 1828 - Knowledge, Theory of |
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... sense . 11. Or at least to be thought false . 12. And why . 13. As referred to real existences , none of our ideas can be false , but those of substances . 14 , 16. First , simple ideas in this sense not false , and why . 15. Though one ...
... sense . 11. Or at least to be thought false . 12. And why . 13. As referred to real existences , none of our ideas can be false , but those of substances . 14 , 16. First , simple ideas in this sense not false , and why . 15. Though one ...
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... sense of old authors . CHAPTER X. OF THE ABUSE OF WORDS . SECT . 1. Abuse of words . 2 , 3. First words without any , or without clear ideas . 4. Occasioned by learning names , before the ideas they belong to . 5. Secondly , a steady ...
... sense of old authors . CHAPTER X. OF THE ABUSE OF WORDS . SECT . 1. Abuse of words . 2 , 3. First words without any , or without clear ideas . 4. Occasioned by learning names , before the ideas they belong to . 5. Secondly , a steady ...
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... senses , as regularly as its sensible qualities do it im- mediately : v . g . we immediately by our senses per- ceive in ... sense I crave leave to be understood , when I name any of these potentialities among the simple ideas , which we ...
... senses , as regularly as its sensible qualities do it im- mediately : v . g . we immediately by our senses per- ceive in ... sense I crave leave to be understood , when I name any of these potentialities among the simple ideas , which we ...
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... senses , faculties , and organs , to the conveniencies of life , and the business we have to do here . We are able , by our senses , to know and distinguish things : and to examine them so far , as to apply them to our uses , and ...
... senses , faculties , and organs , to the conveniencies of life , and the business we have to do here . We are able , by our senses , to know and distinguish things : and to examine them so far , as to apply them to our uses , and ...
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... sense of hearing were but one thousand times quicker than it is , how would a perpetual noise dis- tract us ! And we ... senses , seeing , were in any man a thousand or a hun- dred thousand times more acute than it is by the best ...
... sense of hearing were but one thousand times quicker than it is , how would a perpetual noise dis- tract us ! And we ... senses , seeing , were in any man a thousand or a hun- dred thousand times more acute than it is by the best ...
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2d Answer abstract ideas actions æther agree animal annexed aqua regia archetypes article of faith belong bishop of Worcester body capable cerning clear and distinct clear idea cohesion collection of simple colour complex idea conceive concerning conformity confused connexion consciousness consider consists dead denominate discourse distinct idea distinguish doubt exist false farther give gold hath ideas of sub ideas of substances intuitive knowledge knowledge language lordship says material substance men's mind mixed modes moral motion nature nominal essence obscure observe parcel of matter parrot particles of matter particular perceive personal identity plain plex idea produce raised real essence reason rection relation resurrection Secondly sensation sense sensible qualities signification signify simple ideas Socrates solid sorts of substances soul speak species stances stand subsist substratum supposed things Thirdly thought tion true truth vitally united whereby wherein whereof whilst words
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Page 78 - 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.
Page 333 - For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts ; even one thing befalleth them : as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath ; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast : for all is vanity. All go unto one place ; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Page 74 - For we must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
Page 55 - I think, is a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing, in different times and places...
Page 158 - Conceptions; and to make them stand as marks for the Ideas within his own Mind, whereby they might be made known to others, and the Thoughts of Men's Minds be conveyed from one to another.
Page 159 - It may also lead us a little towards the original of all our notions and knowledge, if we remark how great a dependence our words have on common sensible ideas; and how those which are made use of to stand for actions and notions quite removed from sense, have their rise from thence, and from obvious sensible ideas are transferred to more abstruse significations, and made to stand for ideas that come not under the cognizance of our senses...
Page 288 - But yet if we would speak of things as they are, we must allow that all the art of rhetorick, besides order and clearness, all the artificial and figurative application of words eloquence hath invented, are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgment, and so indeed are perfect cheats...
Page 162 - Words in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him that uses them, how imperfectly soever, or carelessly, those ideas are collected from the things which u2 they are supposed to represent.
Page 387 - The mathematician considers the truth and properties belonging to a rectangle or circle only as they are in idea in his own mind. For it is possible he never found either of them existing mathematically, ie precisely true, in his life.
Page 289 - ... harangues and popular addresses, they are certainly, in all discourses that pretend to inform or instruct, wholly to be avoided; and where truth and knowledge are concerned, cannot but be thought a great fault, either of the language or person that makes use of them.