An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: With Thoughts on the Conduct of the Understanding, Volúmenes1-3Mundell, 1801 - 308 páginas |
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... whereby our under- ftandings come to attain thofe notions of things we have , and can fet down any measures of the certainty of our knowledge , or the grounds of thofe perfuafions which are to be found amongst men , fo various ...
... whereby our under- ftandings come to attain thofe notions of things we have , and can fet down any measures of the certainty of our knowledge , or the grounds of thofe perfuafions which are to be found amongst men , fo various ...
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... whereby it is evident , if there be any , inmate truths , they must neceffarily be the first of any thought on , the first that appear there . 27. Not Innate , because they appear leaft , where what is Innate fhows itself cleareft ...
... whereby it is evident , if there be any , inmate truths , they must neceffarily be the first of any thought on , the first that appear there . 27. Not Innate , because they appear leaft , where what is Innate fhows itself cleareft ...
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... Whereby it is evident , that they are farther removed from a title to be innate ; and the doubt of their being native im- preffions on the mind , is ftronger against these moral principles than the other . Not that it brings their truth ...
... Whereby it is evident , that they are farther removed from a title to be innate ; and the doubt of their being native im- preffions on the mind , is ftronger against these moral principles than the other . Not that it brings their truth ...
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... whereby the Tououpinambos believed they merited paradife , were revenge , and eating abundance of their enemies . ( f ) They have not fo much as a name for God , and have no religion , no worship . The faints , who are canonifed amongst ...
... whereby the Tououpinambos believed they merited paradife , were revenge , and eating abundance of their enemies . ( f ) They have not fo much as a name for God , and have no religion , no worship . The faints , who are canonifed amongst ...
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... be tried ; or , at leaft , it is reafonable to demand the marks and charac- ters , whereby the genuine innate principles may be distinguished from others , that fo , amidst the great 48 No Innate Practical Principles . Book I.
... be tried ; or , at leaft , it is reafonable to demand the marks and charac- ters , whereby the genuine innate principles may be distinguished from others , that fo , amidst the great 48 No Innate Practical Principles . Book I.
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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.