An essay concerning human understanding. With the notes and illustr. of the author, and an analysis of his doctrine of ideas1849 |
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... ideas . " To which our author answers : * " These words of your lordship's contain nothing that I see in them against me ; for I never said , that the general idea of substance comes in by ... ideas ' which come in SIMPLE IDEAS . 65.
... ideas . " To which our author answers : * " These words of your lordship's contain nothing that I see in them against me ; for I never said , that the general idea of substance comes in by ... ideas ' which come in SIMPLE IDEAS . 65.
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... ideas of all the sensible qualities of a cherry come into my mind by sensation ; the ideas of perceiving , thinking ... simple ideas of sensation and reflection : and thus the mind , from the positive , simple ideas got by sensation and ...
... ideas of all the sensible qualities of a cherry come into my mind by sensation ; the ideas of perceiving , thinking ... simple ideas of sensation and reflection : and thus the mind , from the positive , simple ideas got by sensation and ...
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... simple ideas we have are such as experience teaches them us ; but if , beyond that , we endea- vour by words to make them clearer in the mind , we shall succeed ... simple Ideas of Reflection Of simple Ideas of both Sensation and Reflection.
... simple ideas we have are such as experience teaches them us ; but if , beyond that , we endea- vour by words to make them clearer in the mind , we shall succeed ... simple Ideas of Reflection Of simple Ideas of both Sensation and Reflection.
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... ideas always , whilst we are awake or have any thought , passing in train , one going and another coming without intermission . 10. Simple ideas the materials of all our knowledge . — These , if they are not all , are at least ( as I ...
... ideas always , whilst we are awake or have any thought , passing in train , one going and another coming without intermission . 10. Simple ideas the materials of all our knowledge . — These , if they are not all , are at least ( as I ...
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... ideas of white and black and other colours as clearly , perfectly , and distinctly in his understanding , and perhaps more distinctly than the philosopher who hath busied himself in ... ideas , which yet upon hearing they SIMPLE IDEAS . 75.
... ideas of white and black and other colours as clearly , perfectly , and distinctly in his understanding , and perhaps more distinctly than the philosopher who hath busied himself in ... ideas , which yet upon hearing they SIMPLE IDEAS . 75.
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abstract ideas action agreement or disagreement amongst aqua regia assent Bishop of Worcester body capable cerning certainty clear and distinct colour complex idea conceive concerning connexion consider desire determined discourse distinct ideas distinguish doubt duration eternal evident existence extension faculties farther give gold happiness hath idea of infinite idea of substance imagine immaterial infinity innate ideas innate principles inquiry intuitive knowledge knowledge liberty lordship maxims men's mind mixed modes motion names nature necessary never nominal essence objects observe operations pain particular perceive perception perhaps pleasure positive idea primary qualities produce propositions real essence reason receive relation sensation or reflection senses sensible qualities signification signify simple ideas soever solid sort soul space speak species spirit stand substratum suppose syllogism taken notice things thoughts tion true truth understanding uneasiness universal propositions whereby wherein whereof whilst words
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Página 432 - Godward: not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves ; but our sufficiency is of God ; 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.
Página 54 - ... the perception of the operations of our own minds within us, as it is employed about the ideas it has got ; which operations, when the soul comes to reflect on and consider, do furnish the understanding with another set of ideas which could not be had from things without ; and such are perception, thinking, doubting, believing, reasoning, knowing, willing, and all the different actings of our own minds ; which we, being conscious of, and observing in ourselves, do from these receive into our...
Página 2 - I can discover the powers thereof, how far they reach, to what things they are in any degree proportionate, and where they fail us, I suppose it may be of use to prevail with the busy mind of man to be more cautious in meddling with things exceeding its comprehension ; to stop when it is at the utmost extent of its tether; and to sit down in a quiet ignorance of those things which, upon examination, are found to be beyond the reach of our capacities.
Página 54 - These two, I say, viz. external material things as the objects of sensation, and the operations of our own minds within as the objects of reflection, are, to me, the only originals from whence all our ideas take their beginnings.
Página 10 - It is an established opinion among some men, that there are in the understanding certain innate principles ; some primary notions, xoiml ivmai, characters, as it were, stamped upon the mind of man, which the soul receives in its very first being, and brings into the world with it.
Página 96 - I pretend not to teach, but to inquire, and therefore cannot but confess here again, that external and internal sensation are the only passages that I can find of knowledge to the understanding. These alone, as far as I can discover, are the windows by which light is let into this dark room...
Página 513 - But God has not been so sparing to men to make them barely two-legged creatures, and left it to Aristotle to make them rational...
Página 204 - I have said, not imagining how these simple ideas can subsist by themselves, we accustom ourselves to suppose some substratum wherein they do subsist, and from which they do result, which therefore we call substance.
Página 3 - ... to take a survey of our own understandings, examine our own powers, and see to what things they were adapted. Till that was done I suspected we began at the wrong end, and in vain sought for satisfaction in a quiet and...
Página 548 - For since the things the mind contemplates are none of them, besides itself, present to the understanding, it is necessary that something else, as a sign or representation of the thing it considers, should be present to it: and these are ideas.