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... extension , 4. Immensity . 5 , 6. Figure . 7-10 . Place . 1-14 . Extension and body not the same . 15. The definition of exten . sion , or of space , does not explain it . 16. Division of beings into bodies and spirits proves not body ...
... extension , 4. Immensity . 5 , 6. Figure . 7-10 . Place . 1-14 . Extension and body not the same . 15. The definition of exten . sion , or of space , does not explain it . 16. Division of beings into bodies and spirits proves not body ...
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... extension , are extension ; and all the parts of duration are du ration . 10. Their parts inseparable . 11. Duration is as a line , ex- pansion as a solid . Duration has never two parts together , expansion all together . 12 . CHAP ...
... extension , are extension ; and all the parts of duration are du ration . 10. Their parts inseparable . 11. Duration is as a line , ex- pansion as a solid . Duration has never two parts together , expansion all together . 12 . CHAP ...
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... extension . 6. Absolute terms often stand for relations . SECT . XXVII . CHAP . XXV . SECT . Of relation . 1. Relation , what . 2. Relations , without corre lative terms , not easily perceived . 3. Some seemingly absolute terms contain ...
... extension . 6. Absolute terms often stand for relations . SECT . XXVII . CHAP . XXV . SECT . Of relation . 1. Relation , what . 2. Relations , without corre lative terms , not easily perceived . 3. Some seemingly absolute terms contain ...
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... extend its view , how far it has faculties to attain certainty , and in what cases it can only judge and guess ; we may learn to content ourselves with what is attainable by us in this state . § . 5. For , though the comprehension of ...
... extend its view , how far it has faculties to attain certainty , and in what cases it can only judge and guess ; we may learn to content ourselves with what is attainable by us in this state . § . 5. For , though the comprehension of ...
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... extend itself to the dens of thieves , and the confederacies of the greatest villains ; and they who have gone farthest towards the putting off of humanity itself , keep faith and rules of justice one with another . I grant that out ...
... extend itself to the dens of thieves , and the confederacies of the greatest villains ; and they who have gone farthest towards the putting off of humanity itself , keep faith and rules of justice one with another . I grant that out ...
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Page 77 - Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from EXPERIENCE; in that all our knowledge is founded, and from that it ultimately derives itself.
Page 78 - This source of ideas every man has wholly in himself: and though it be not sense, as having nothing to do with external objects, yet it is very like it, and might properly enough be called internal sense.
Page 142 - For methinks the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly shut from light, with only some little opening 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 of a man in reference to all objects of sight, and the ideas of them.
Page 130 - Thus the ideas, as well as children, of our youth often die before us ; and our minds represent to us those tombs to which we are approaching ; where though the brass and marble remain, yet the inscriptions are effaced by time, and the imagery moulders away. The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colours ; and if not sometimes refreshed, vanish and disappear.
Page 333 - 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 112 - Qualities thus considered in bodies are, first such as are utterly inseparable from the body, in what estate soever it be; such as in all the alterations and changes it suffers, all the force can be used upon it, it constantly keeps; and such as sense constantly finds in every particle of matter, which has bulk enough to be perceived, and the mind finds inseparable from every particle of matter, though less than to make itself singly be perceived by our senses.
Page 92 - These simple ideas, when offered to the mind, the understanding can no more refuse to have, nor alter, when they are imprinted, nor blot them out, and make new ones itself, than a mirror can refuse, alter, or obliterate the images or ideas which the objects set before it do therein produce.
Page 16 - It being that term which, I think, serves best to stand for whatsoever is the object of the understanding when a man thinks, I have used it to express whatever is meant by phantasm, notion, species, or whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking...