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... examine our own abilities , and see what objects our understandings were , or were not , fitted to deal with . This I proposed to the company , who all readily assented ; and thereupon it was agreed , that this should be our first ...
... examine our own abilities , and see what objects our understandings were , or were not , fitted to deal with . This I proposed to the company , who all readily assented ; and thereupon it was agreed , that this should be our first ...
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... examine wherein its essence consists , or by what motions of our spirits , or alterations of our bodies , we come to have any sensation by our organs , or any ideas in our under- standings ; and whether those ideas do , in their ...
... examine wherein its essence consists , or by what motions of our spirits , or alterations of our bodies , we come to have any sensation by our organs , or any ideas in our under- standings ; and whether those ideas do , in their ...
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... examine by what measures , in things , whereof we have no certain knowledge , we ought to regulate our assent , and moderate our persuasions . In order whereunto , I shall pursue this following method . First . I shall inquire into the ...
... examine by what measures , in things , whereof we have no certain knowledge , we ought to regulate our assent , and moderate our persuasions . In order whereunto , I shall pursue this following method . First . I shall inquire into the ...
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... take a survey of our own under- standing , examine our own powers , and see to what things they were adapted . Till that was done , I suspected we B 2 Chap . 1 . INTRODUCTION . life, and the way that leads to a better...
... take a survey of our own under- standing , examine our own powers , and see to what things they were adapted . Till that was done , I suspected we B 2 Chap . 1 . INTRODUCTION . life, and the way that leads to a better...
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... examine ever so far , what thoughts others have had before him , concerning the same thing , and should find by examining , that they had the same thoughts too . " But what great obligation this would be to the world , or weighty cause ...
... examine ever so far , what thoughts others have had before him , concerning the same thing , and should find by examining , that they had the same thoughts too . " But what great obligation this would be to the world , or weighty cause ...
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ESSAY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERST John 1632-1704 Locke,Thomas Holywell,William (Binder) Bell No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 415 - 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 91 - For. wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas. and putting those together with quickness and variety wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity. thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy: judgment. on the contrary. lies quite on the other side. in separating carefully one from another ideas wherein can be found the least difference. thereby to avoid being misled by similitude and by affinity to take one thing for another.
Page viii - ... found themselves quickly at a stand, by the difficulties that rose on every side. After we had a while puzzled ourselves, without coming any nearer a resolution of those doubts which perplexed us, it came into my thoughts, that we took a wrong course : and that before we set ourselves upon inquiries of that nature, it was necessary to examine our own abilities, and see what objects our understandings were, or were not, fitted to deal with.
Page 75 - ... nothing in the objects themselves but powers to produce various sensations in us, and depend on those primary qualities, viz.
Page 236 - And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
Page 533 - 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 52 - I would be understood to mean that notice which the mind takes of its own operations, and the manner of them; by reason whereof there come to be ideas of these operations in the understanding-.
Page 415 - 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 193 - So that if any one will examine himself concerning his notion of pure substance in general, he will find he has no other idea of it at all, but only a supposition of he knows not what support of such qualities which are capable of producing simple ideas in us; which qualities are commonly called accidents.
Page 52 - The understanding seems to me not to have the least glimmering of any ideas which it doth not receive from one of these two. External objects furnish the mind with the ideas of sensible qualities, which are all those different perceptions they produce in us; and the mind furnishes the understanding with ideas of its own operations.