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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... doubt of the truth of that opinion , as an excufe for my mistake , if I be in one , which I leave to be confidered by those who with me difpofe themselves to embrace truth wherever they find it . 2. General Affent the great Argument ...
... doubt of the truth of that opinion , as an excufe for my mistake , if I be in one , which I leave to be confidered by those who with me difpofe themselves to embrace truth wherever they find it . 2. General Affent the great Argument ...
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... doubt be thought strange if any one fhould feem to queftion it ; but yet I take liberty to fay , that thefe pro- . pofitions are fo far from having an universal affent , that there are a great part of mankind to whom they are not fo ...
... doubt be thought strange if any one fhould feem to queftion it ; but yet I take liberty to fay , that thefe pro- . pofitions are fo far from having an universal affent , that there are a great part of mankind to whom they are not fo ...
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... doubt of their be- ing there , than we are of their love of pleasure , and abhorrence of pain . But alas ! amongst children , idiots , favages , and the grofsly illiterate , what general maxims are to be found ? What univerfal ...
... doubt of their be- ing there , than we are of their love of pleasure , and abhorrence of pain . But alas ! amongst children , idiots , favages , and the grofsly illiterate , what general maxims are to be found ? What univerfal ...
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... 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 at all in queftion ; they are equally true , though not equally evident . Those ...
... 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 at all in queftion ; they are equally true , though not equally evident . Those ...
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... doubt or queftion , as it must be if in- nate ? Sufice , and keeping of contracts , is that which most men fem to agree in . This is a principle which is thought to extend itself to the dens of thieves , and the confederacies of the ...
... doubt or queftion , as it must be if in- nate ? Sufice , and keeping of contracts , is that which most men fem to agree in . This is a principle which is thought to extend itself to the dens of thieves , and the confederacies of the ...
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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...