 | Thomas Brown, David Welsh - Intellect - 1846 - 580 pages
...thought of personality. " To find," he says, " wherein personal identity consists, we must consider what person stands for ; which, I think, is a thinking...consciousness which is inseparable from thinking." 1 Having once given this definition of a person, there can be no question that personal identity, in... | |
 | The Phrenological Journal and Magazine of Moral Science from the year 1846 VOL.XIX - 1846 - 416 pages
...faculties do not enable us to ascertain), but, in accordance with Locke's definition of a person, " a thinking, intelligent being, that has reason and...same thinking thing in different times and places." In this sense of the word, our faculties enable us to assign a personal character to the Deity : and... | |
 | Phrenology - 1847 - 386 pages
...definition of it, — " a thinking, intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and considers itself as itself, the same thinking thing in different times and places." In this sense of the word, our faculties enable us to assign a personal character to the Deity, without... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1849 - 588 pages
...Personal identity. — This being premised, to find wherein personal identity consists, we must consider what "person" stands for ; which, I think, is a thinking...consciousness which is inseparable from thinking, and it seems to me essential to it : it being impossible for any one to perceive, without perceiving that... | |
 | John Locke - 1849 - 588 pages
...Personal identity. — This being premised, to find wherein personal identity consists, we must consider what " person" stands for ; which, I think, is a thinking...itself as itself, the same thinking thing, in different tunes and places ; which it does only by that consciousness which is inseparable from thinking, and... | |
 | Thomas Brown, James Parkinson Boyle - Philosophy - 1849 - 370 pages
...consequences of either of the two. This was the source of Locke's paradox ; from his definition of person — a thinking, intelligent being, that has reason and...thinking thing in different times and places, which it only does by that consciousness which is inseparable from thought — it immediately follows, that... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - English essays - 1849 - 484 pages
...compose personal identity. Mr. Locke, after having premised that the word person properly signifies a thinking intelligent being that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, concludes, that it is consciousness alone, and not an identity of substance, which makes this personal... | |
 | Theophilus - Trinity - 1850 - 380 pages
...of the Greeks. Emmons used the term person substantially as does Locke, when he defines person as " a thinking, intelligent being, that has reason and...consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing at different times and places."* That Emmons does, in fact, harmonize with the highest orthodoxly Trinitarian... | |
 | Thomas Brown - 1851 - 614 pages
...thought of personality. " To find," he says, " wherein personal identity consists, we must consider what person stands for ; which, I think, is a thinking...consciousness which is inseparable from thinking." l Having once given this definition of a person, there can be no question that personal identity, in... | |
 | JOHN MURRAY - 1852 - 786 pages
...consists, we must consider what person stands for; OF IDENTITY AND DIVERSITY. 171 which, I think, is—a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection,...itself, the same thinking thing, in different times and places—which it does only by that Consciousness which is inseparable from thinking, and seems to... | |
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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... 
