An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Volumen1J. Johnson [and 18 others], 1805 - 510 páginas |
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... amongst those who judge of men's heads , as they do of their perukes , by the fashion ; and can allow none to be right , but the received doctrines . Truth scarce ever yet carried it by vote any where at its first appearance : new ...
... amongst those who judge of men's heads , as they do of their perukes , by the fashion ; and can allow none to be right , but the received doctrines . Truth scarce ever yet carried it by vote any where at its first appearance : new ...
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... amongst men , so various , dif- ferent , and wholly contradictory ; and yet asserted , some- where or other , with such assurance and confidence , that he that shall take a view of the opinions of mankind , observe their opposition ...
... amongst men , so various , dif- ferent , and wholly contradictory ; and yet asserted , some- where or other , with such assurance and confidence , that he that shall take a view of the opinions of mankind , observe their opposition ...
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... amongst some men , that there are in the un- derstanding certain innate principles ; some primary notions , xovala , characters , as it were , stamped upon the mind of man , which the soul receives in its very first being ; and brings ...
... amongst some men , that there are in the un- derstanding certain innate principles ; some primary notions , xovala , characters , as it were , stamped upon the mind of man , which the soul receives in its very first being ; and brings ...
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... amongst these innate axioms . Nor is this the prerogative of numbers alone , and propositions made about several of them ; but even natural philo- sophy , and all the other sciences , afford propositions , which are sure to meet with ...
... amongst these innate axioms . Nor is this the prerogative of numbers alone , and propositions made about several of them ; but even natural philo- sophy , and all the other sciences , afford propositions , which are sure to meet with ...
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... amongst chil- dren , idiots , savages , and the grossly illiterate , what general maxins are to be found ? what universal prin- ciples of knowledge ? Their notions are few and nar- row , borrowed only from those objects they have had ...
... amongst chil- dren , idiots , savages , and the grossly illiterate , what general maxins are to be found ? what universal prin- ciples of knowledge ? Their notions are few and nar- row , borrowed only from those objects they have had ...
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Página 77 - Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from EXPERIENCE; in that all our knowledge is founded, and from that it ultimately derives itself.
Página 78 - This source of ideas every man has wholly in himself: and though it be not sense, as having nothing to do with external objects, yet it is very like it, and might properly enough be called internal sense.
Página 142 - For methinks the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly shut from light, with only some little opening left to let in external visible resemblances or ideas of things without: would the pictures coming into such a dark room but stay there, and lie so orderly as to be found upon occasion, it would very much resemble the understanding of a man in reference to all objects of sight, and the ideas of them.
Página 130 - 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 333 - I think, is a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing, in different times and places...
Página 112 - Qualities thus considered in bodies are, first such as are utterly inseparable from the body, in what estate soever it be; such as in all the alterations and changes it suffers, all the force can be used upon it, it constantly keeps; and such as sense constantly finds in every particle of matter, which has bulk enough to be perceived, and the mind finds inseparable from every particle of matter, though less than to make itself singly be perceived by our senses.
Página 92 - These simple ideas, when offered to the mind, the understanding can no more refuse to have, nor alter, when they are imprinted, nor blot them out, and make new ones itself, than a mirror can refuse, alter, or obliterate the images or ideas which the objects set before it do therein produce.
Página 16 - It being that term which, I think, serves best to stand for whatsoever is the object of the understanding when a man thinks, I have used it to express whatever is meant by phantasm, notion, species, or whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking...