An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: With Thoughts on the Conduct of the Understanding, Volúmenes1-3Mundell, 1801 - 308 páginas |
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... first hearing , is upon a falfe fuppofition of no precedent teaching . 24. Not innate , because not univerfally affented to . 25. These Maxims not the first known . 26. And fo not innate . 27. Not innate , because they appear least ...
... first hearing , is upon a falfe fuppofition of no precedent teaching . 24. Not innate , because not univerfally affented to . 25. These Maxims not the first known . 26. And fo not innate . 27. Not innate , because they appear least ...
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... First , From bodily Pains . Secondly , From wrong De fires , arifing from wrong Judgment . 58 , 59. Our Judgment of prefent Good or Evil always right . 60. From a wrong Judgment of what makes a neceffary part of their Happiness . 61 ...
... First , From bodily Pains . Secondly , From wrong De fires , arifing from wrong Judgment . 58 , 59. Our Judgment of prefent Good or Evil always right . 60. From a wrong Judgment of what makes a neceffary part of their Happiness . 61 ...
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... first inquiry . Some hafty and undigefted thoughts , on a subject I had never before considered , which I fet down against our next meeting , gave the first entrance into this difcourfe xxii The Epifle to the Reader .
... first inquiry . Some hafty and undigefted thoughts , on a subject I had never before considered , which I fet down against our next meeting , gave the first entrance into this difcourfe xxii The Epifle to the Reader .
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... first entrance into this difcourfe ; which having been thus begun by chance , was conti- nued by entreaty , written by incoherent parcels , and , after long intervals of neglect , refumed again , as my humour or occafions permitted ...
... first entrance into this difcourfe ; which having been thus begun by chance , was conti- nued by entreaty , written by incoherent parcels , and , after long intervals of neglect , refumed again , as my humour or occafions permitted ...
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... recede from any thing I have writ , upon the first evidence of an error in it ; yet this I must own , that I have not had the good luck to receive any XXX light from thofe exceptions I have met with in b 2 The Epifle to the Reader . xxvi.
... recede from any thing I have writ , upon the first evidence of an error in it ; yet this I must own , that I have not had the good luck to receive any XXX light from thofe exceptions I have met with in b 2 The Epifle to the Reader . xxvi.
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Términos y frases comunes
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Página 250 - ... harangues and popular addresses, they are certainly, in all discourses that pretend to inform or instruct, wholly to be avoided ; and, where truth and knowledge are concerned, cannot but be thought a great fault either of the language or person 'that makes use of them.
Página 264 - This is that which I think great readers are apt to be mistaken in. Those who have read of everything are thought to understand everything too; but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking makes what we read ours.
Página 47 - It is evident the mind knows not things immediately, but only by the intervention of the ideas it has of them. Our knowledge therefore is real only so far as there is a conformity between our ideas and the reality of things.
Página 140 - ... do not appear to me to have lost the faculty of reasoning ; but having joined together some ideas very wrongly, they mistake them for truths, and they err as men do that argue right from wrong principles.
Página 9 - It shall suffice to my present purpose to consider the discerning faculties of a man as they are employed about the objects which they have to do with...
Página 145 - When therefore we quit particulars, the generals that rest are only creatures of our own making, their general nature being nothing but the capacity they are put into by the understanding of signifying or representing many particulars. For the signification they have is nothing but a relation that by the mind of man is added to them.
Página 133 - That which thus captivates their reasons, and leads men of sincerity blindfold from common sense, will, when examined, be found to be what we are speaking of; some independent ideas, of no alliance to one another, are by education, custom, and the constant din of their party, so coupled in their minds, that they always appear there together; and they can no more separate them in their thoughts, than if they were but one idea, and they operate as if they were so.
Página 227 - So that the idea of liberty is the idea of a power in any agent to do or forbear any particular action, according to the determination or thought of the mind, whereby either of them is preferred to the other...
Página 18 - But whether there be anything more than barely that idea in our minds, whether we can thence certainly infer the existence of anything without us which corresponds to that idea, is that whereof some men think there may be a question made; because men may have such ideas in their minds when no such thing exists, no such object affects their senses.
Página 139 - If it may be doubted, whether beasts compound and enlarge their ideas that way, to any degree: this, I think, I may be positive in, that the power of abstracting is not at all in them; and that the having of general ideas, is that which puts a perfect distinction betwixt man and brutes; and is an excellency which the faculties of brutes do by no means attain to.