 | John Locke - Education - 1922 - 294 pages
...in the examination of our principles, and not > receiving any for such, nor building on them, till we are fully convinced as rational creatures of their...understanding. It is conceit, fancy, extravagance, anything rather than understanding, if it must be under the constraint of receiving and holding opinions... | |
 | Ruth W. Grant - Political Science - 1991 - 230 pages
...and each of one's own opinions must be subjected to thorough examination. "In these two things . . . consists that freedom of the understanding which is...and without which it is not truly an understanding" (CLJ.12; see CU.n; Essay IV.19.1). To truly understand is to see with your own eyes, and not to blindly... | |
 | Nicholas Wolterstorff - Philosophy - 1996 - 276 pages
...own summaries of the whole process: In these two things, viz., an equal indifferency for all truth, I mean the receiving it in the love of it as truth,...understanding. It is conceit, fancy, extravagance, anything rather than understanding, if it must be under the constraint of receiving and holding opinions... | |
 | Graham Faiella - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2005 - 120 pages
...tolerance unites people of different creeds, permits travel and the dissemination of books and newspapers." fully convinced, as rational creatures, of their solidity,...understanding. It is conceit, fancy, extravagance [ie, an illusion], any thing rather than understanding, if it must be under the constraint of [if it... | |
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In these two things, viz., an equal indifferency for all truth (I mean the receiving it in the love of it as truth, but not loving it for any other reason before we know it to be true) and in the examination of our principles and not receiving any for... 
