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... wherein the very pursuit makes a great part of the pleasure . Every step the mind takes in its progress towards knowledge , makes some discovery , which is not only new , but the best too , for the time at least . For the understanding ...
... wherein the very pursuit makes a great part of the pleasure . Every step the mind takes in its progress towards knowledge , makes some discovery , which is not only new , but the best too , for the time at least . For the understanding ...
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... wherein he intends not they should meet with any thing of use to themselves or others : and should nothing else be found allowable in this treatise , yet my design will not cease to be so ; and the goodness of my intention ought to be ...
... wherein he intends not they should meet with any thing of use to themselves or others : and should nothing else be found allowable in this treatise , yet my design will not cease to be so ; and the goodness of my intention ought to be ...
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... Wherein identity con- I. sists . 2. Identity of substances . Identity of modes . 3. Principium individuatio . nis . 4. Identity of vegetables . 5. Identity of animals . 6. Identity of man . 7. Identity suited to the idea . 8. Same man ...
... Wherein identity con- I. sists . 2. Identity of substances . Identity of modes . 3. Principium individuatio . nis . 4. Identity of vegetables . 5. Identity of animals . 6. Identity of man . 7. Identity suited to the idea . 8. Same man ...
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... shall not at present meddle , with the physical consideration of the mind ; or trouble myself to examine , wherein its essence consists , or by what motions of our spirits , VOL . I. B or or alterations of our bodies , we come to have.
... shall not at present meddle , with the physical consideration of the mind ; or trouble myself to examine , wherein its essence consists , or by what motions of our spirits , VOL . I. B or or alterations of our bodies , we come to have.
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... wherein your lordship acknowledges they are not used to bad purposes , nor employed to do mischief ; only because find that ideas are , by those who oppose your lordship , em- ployed to do mischief ; and so apprehend , they may be of ...
... wherein your lordship acknowledges they are not used to bad purposes , nor employed to do mischief ; only because find that ideas are , by those who oppose your lordship , em- ployed to do mischief ; and so apprehend , they may be of ...
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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...