An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Volume 2J. Johnson, W. J. and J. Richardson, W. Otridge and Son, F. C. and J. Rivington, D. Ogilvy and Son, Leigh and Sotheby, T. Payne, [and 11 others], and J. Mawman, 1805 - Knowledge, Theory of - 510 pages |
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... consequence of this , if our former judgment were not rightly made . 4. The right use of it , is mutual charity and for- bearance . 5. Probability is either of matter of fact , or specula . tion . 6. The concurrent experience of all ...
... consequence of this , if our former judgment were not rightly made . 4. The right use of it , is mutual charity and for- bearance . 5. Probability is either of matter of fact , or specula . tion . 6. The concurrent experience of all ...
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... Consequences of words , and consequences of ideas . 19. Four sorts of arguments : first , ad verecundiam . 20. Secondly , ad ignorantiam . 21. Thirdly , ad hominem . 22. Fourthly , ad judicium . 23. Above , contrary , and ac- cording to ...
... Consequences of words , and consequences of ideas . 19. Four sorts of arguments : first , ad verecundiam . 20. Secondly , ad ignorantiam . 21. Thirdly , ad hominem . 22. Fourthly , ad judicium . 23. Above , contrary , and ac- cording to ...
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... consequences drawn from positions laid down ; there the precise signification of the names of substances will be found , not only not to be well established , but also very hard to be so . For example , he that shall make malleableness ...
... consequences drawn from positions laid down ; there the precise signification of the names of substances will be found , not only not to be well established , but also very hard to be so . For example , he that shall make malleableness ...
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... consequences that follow from them . § . 19. By the same rule , the names of simple modes are , next to those of simple . ideas , least liable to doubt and uncertainty , especially those of figure and number , of which men have so clear ...
... consequences that follow from them . § . 19. By the same rule , the names of simple modes are , next to those of simple . ideas , least liable to doubt and uncertainty , especially those of figure and number , of which men have so clear ...
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... consequences about general ideas , he would no doubt be subject to law , and in that sense be a man , how much soever he differed in shape from 3 . from others of that name . The names of substances 50 Book 3 . Remedies of the Imperfection.
... consequences about general ideas , he would no doubt be subject to law , and in that sense be a man , how much soever he differed in shape from 3 . from others of that name . The names of substances 50 Book 3 . Remedies of the Imperfection.
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Page 102 - Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament ; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
Page 127 - 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.
Page 102 - As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.
Page 273 - Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal Father of light, and fountain of all knowledge, communicates to mankind that portion of truth which he has laid within the reach of their natural faculties: revelation is natural reason enlarged by 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.
Page 339 - I have mentioned mathematics as a way to settle in the mind a habit of reasoning closely and in train ; not that I think it necessary that all men should be deep mathematicians, but that, having got the way of reasoning which that study necessarily brings the mind to, they might be able to transfer it to other parts of knowledge, as they shall have occasion.
Page 201 - ... deserves the name of knowledge. If we persuade ourselves that our faculties act and inform us right concerning the existence of those objects that affect them, it cannot pass for an ill-grounded confidence: for I think nobody can, in earnest, be so sceptical as to be uncertain of the existence of those things which he sees and feels.
Page 163 - ... neither oblique nor rectangle, neither equilateral, equicrural, nor scalenon ; but all and none of these at once. In effect, it is something imperfect, that cannot exist ; an idea wherein some parts of several different and inconsistent ideas are put together.
Page 438 - Heat is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts of the object, which produces in us that sensation, from whence we denominate the object hot ; so what in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing b,ut motion.
Page 69 - For if we 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.
Page 214 - For the ideas that ethics are conversant about being all real essences, and such as I imagine have a discoverable connexion and agreement one with another ; so far as we can find their habitudes and relations, so far we shall be possessed of certain, real, and general truths : and I doubt not, but, if a right method were taken, a great part of morality might be made out with that clearness, that could leave, to a considering man, no more reason to doubt, than he could have to doubt of the truth of...