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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... supposed , there would be little left either of the notion or proof of spirits . If any one take the like offence at the entrance of this treatise , I shall desire him to read it through ; and then I hope he will be convinced , that the ...
... supposed , there would be little left either of the notion or proof of spirits . If any one take the like offence at the entrance of this treatise , I shall desire him to read it through ; and then I hope he will be convinced , that the ...
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... supposed native inscriptions come to be known and observed by them ; or else , that the use and exer- cise of men's reasons assists them in the discovery of these prin- ciples , and certainly makes them known to them . 8. If reason ...
... supposed native inscriptions come to be known and observed by them ; or else , that the use and exer- cise of men's reasons assists them in the discovery of these prin- ciples , and certainly makes them known to them . 8. If reason ...
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... supposed innate , when reason ( if we may believe them ) is nothing else but the faculty of deducing unknown truths from principles or propositions that are already known ? That certainly can never be thought innate which we have need ...
... supposed innate , when reason ( if we may believe them ) is nothing else but the faculty of deducing unknown truths from principles or propositions that are already known ? That certainly can never be thought innate which we have need ...
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... supposed the time that these maxims are first assented to , ( which it may be with as much truth as the time when men come to the use of reason , ) would be as good a proof that they were innate , as to say , they are innate because men ...
... supposed the time that these maxims are first assented to , ( which it may be with as much truth as the time when men come to the use of reason , ) would be as good a proof that they were innate , as to say , they are innate because men ...
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... supposed not to be taught , nor to learn any thing de novo ; when in truth they are taught and do learn something they were ignorant of before . For , first , it is evident they have learned the terms and their signification ; neither ...
... supposed not to be taught , nor to learn any thing de novo ; when in truth they are taught and do learn something they were ignorant of before . For , first , it is evident they have learned the terms and their signification ; neither ...
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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.