An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: In Four Books, Volumen1H. Woodfall, 1768 |
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... Something unreasonable in moft Men . 2. Not wholly from Self- Love . 3. Nor from Education . 4. A Degree of Madness . 5. From a wrong Connexion of Ideas . 6. This Connexion , how made . 7 , 8. Some Antipathies an Ef- fect of it . 9. A ...
... Something unreasonable in moft Men . 2. Not wholly from Self- Love . 3. Nor from Education . 4. A Degree of Madness . 5. From a wrong Connexion of Ideas . 6. This Connexion , how made . 7 , 8. Some Antipathies an Ef- fect of it . 9. A ...
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... something which we have not by those Ideas . ( * ) In his firft Letter to the Bishop of Worcester , P.35 , & c . To which our Author ( * ) answers : Thefe Words of your Lordship's contain nothing as I fee in them againft me : For I ...
... something which we have not by those Ideas . ( * ) In his firft Letter to the Bishop of Worcester , P.35 , & c . To which our Author ( * ) answers : Thefe Words of your Lordship's contain nothing as I fee in them againft me : For I ...
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... Something , is all that is left to be the pofitive Idea , which has the Relation of a Support , or Subftra- tum , to Modes or Accidents ; and that general , indetermined Idea of Something , is , by the Abftraction of the Mind , derived ...
... Something , is all that is left to be the pofitive Idea , which has the Relation of a Support , or Subftra- tum , to Modes or Accidents ; and that general , indetermined Idea of Something , is , by the Abftraction of the Mind , derived ...
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... Something or Nothing ? And when they have refolved that , they will be able to refolve themselves what that is , which is , or may be between two Bodies at a Distance , that is not Body , and has no Solidity . In the mean time , the ...
... Something or Nothing ? And when they have refolved that , they will be able to refolve themselves what that is , which is , or may be between two Bodies at a Distance , that is not Body , and has no Solidity . In the mean time , the ...
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... something , the Abfurdity , in saying it is free , or not free , will easily discover itself . For if it be reasonable to suppose and talk of Faculties , as diftinct Beings that can act , ( as we do , when we fay the Will orders , and ...
... something , the Abfurdity , in saying it is free , or not free , will easily discover itself . For if it be reasonable to suppose and talk of Faculties , as diftinct Beings that can act , ( as we do , when we fay the Will orders , and ...
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Página 113 - Thus the ideas, as well as children, of our youth often die before us; and our minds represent to us those tombs to which we are approaching; where though the brass and marble remain, yet the inscriptions are effaced by time, and the imagery moulders away. The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colours; and if not sometimes refreshed, vanish and disappear.
Página 191 - For when the ball obeys the stroke of a billiard-stick, it is not any action of the ball, but bare passion : also when by impulse it sets another ball in motion that lay in its way, it only communicates the motion it had received from another, and loses in itself so much as the other received...
Página 100 - The particular bulk, number, figure, and motion of the parts of fire, or snow, are really in them, whether any one's senses perceive them or no ; and therefore they may be called real qualities, because they really exist in those bodies : but light, heat, whiteness, or coldness, are no more really in them than sickness or pain is in manna.
Página 108 - I agree with this thinking gentleman, whom I am proud to call my friend, in his answer to this his problem ; and am of opinion, that the blind man, at first sight, would not be able with certainty to say which was the globe, which the cube, whilst he only saw them...
Página 193 - 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 15 - So that if the capacity of knowing be the natural impression contended for, all the truths a man ever comes to know will, by this account, be every one of them innate ; and this great point will amount to no more, but only to a very improper way of speaking; which, whilst it pretends to assert the contrary, says nothing different from those who deny innate principles.
Página 105 - This is certain, that whatever alterations are made in the body, if they reach not the mind; whatever impressions are made on the outward parts, if they are not taken notice of within ; there is no perception. Fire may burn our bodies with no other effect than it does a billet, unless the motion be continued to the brain, and there the sense of heat or idea of pain be produced in the mind, wherein consists actual perception.
Página 82 - ... the dominion of man in this little world of his own understanding, being much-what the same as it is in the great world, of visible things, wherein his power, however managed by art and skill, reaches no farther than to compound and divide the materials that are made to his hand but can do nothing towards the making the least particle of new matter, or destroying one atom of what is already in being.
Página 68 - ... 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...