An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: With Thoughts on the Conduct of Understanding ; Collated with Desmaizeaux's Ed. To which is Prefixed the Life of the AuthorMundell & Son, 1801 - 308 páginas |
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Página xxiv
... able to receive it with that feasoning ; and it must be dreffed another way , if you will have it go down with fome , even of ftrong conftitutions . The truth is , thofe who advised me to publish it , advised me , for this reafon , to ...
... able to receive it with that feasoning ; and it must be dreffed another way , if you will have it go down with fome , even of ftrong conftitutions . The truth is , thofe who advised me to publish it , advised me , for this reafon , to ...
Página xxviii
... able to fee , that what is faid , is either not well founded , or else not contrary to my doctrine , when I and my oppofer come both to be well understood . If any , careful that none of their good thoughts should be loft , have ...
... able to fee , that what is faid , is either not well founded , or else not contrary to my doctrine , when I and my oppofer come both to be well understood . If any , careful that none of their good thoughts should be loft , have ...
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... able by us in this ftate . 5. Our Capacity fuited to our State and Concerns . FOR though the comprehenfion of our understandings comes exceeding fhort of the vaft extent of things , yet we shall have caufe enough to magnify the ...
... able by us in this ftate . 5. Our Capacity fuited to our State and Concerns . FOR though the comprehenfion of our understandings comes exceeding fhort of the vaft extent of things , yet we shall have caufe enough to magnify the ...
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... able to retain and receive di- ftinct ideas . But whether it be then or no , this is cer- tain it does fo long before it has the ufe of words , or comes to that which we commonly call the ufe of reafon . For a child knows as certainly ...
... able to retain and receive di- ftinct ideas . But whether it be then or no , this is cer- tain it does fo long before it has the ufe of words , or comes to that which we commonly call the ufe of reafon . For a child knows as certainly ...
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... able to make clear and evi- dent to him . But this only by the by , to fhow how much our knowledge depends upon the right use of those powers nature bath bestowed upon us , and how little upon fuch innate principles , as are in vain ...
... able to make clear and evi- dent to him . But this only by the by , to fhow how much our knowledge depends upon the right use of those powers nature bath bestowed upon us , and how little upon fuch innate principles , as are in vain ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página xi - For if we will reflect on our own ways of thinking, we shall find that sometimes the mind perceives the agreement or disagreement of two ideas immediately by themselves, without the intervention of any other: and this, I think, we may call 'intuitive knowledge.
Página 64 - I would be understood to mean, that notice which the mind takes of its own operations, and the manner of them, by reason whereof there come to be ideas of these operations in the understanding.
Página 97 - ... some motion must be thence continued by our nerves or animal spirits, by some parts of our bodies, to the brain or the seat of sensation, there to produce in our minds the particular ideas we have of them.
Página 190 - ... a new set of discoveries communicated by God immediately; which reason vouches the truth of, by the testimony and proofs it gives that they come from God. So that he that takes away reason to make way for revelation, puts out the light of both, and does muchwhat the same as if he would persuade a man to put out his eyes, the better to receive the remote light of an invisible star by a telescope.
Página 8 - From all which it is evident, that the extent of our knowledge comes not only short of the reality of things, but even of the extent of our own ideas.
Página 64 - ... 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...
Página 80 - When the understanding is once stored with these simple ideas, it has the power to repeat, compare, and unite them, even to an almost infinite variety, and so can make at pleasure new complex ideas.
Página 237 - ... 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 177 - I think it may not be amiss to take notice, that, however faith be opposed to reason, faith is nothing but a firm assent of the mind ; which, if it be regulated, as is our duty, cannot be afforded to any thing but upon good reason, and so cannot be opposite to it. He that believes without having any reason for believing, may be in love with his own fancies ; but neither seeks truth as he ought, nor pays the obedience due to his Maker...