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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... determined to what ideas any one shall annex them , common use is not sufficient to adjust them to philosophical discourses ; there being . scarce any name of any very complex idea ( to say nothing of others ) which in common use has ...
... determined to what ideas any one shall annex them , common use is not sufficient to adjust them to philosophical discourses ; there being . scarce any name of any very complex idea ( to say nothing of others ) which in common use has ...
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... determine ? Each has its standard in nature , which he appeals to , and with reason thinks he has , the same right to put into his complex idea , signified by the word gold , those qualities which upon trial he has found united ; as ...
... determine ? Each has its standard in nature , which he appeals to , and with reason thinks he has , the same right to put into his complex idea , signified by the word gold , those qualities which upon trial he has found united ; as ...
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... determine in this case which are those that are to make up the precise collection that is to be signified by the spe cifick name ; or can with any just authority prescribe , which obvious or common qualities are to be left out ; or ...
... determine in this case which are those that are to make up the precise collection that is to be signified by the spe cifick name ; or can with any just authority prescribe , which obvious or common qualities are to be left out ; or ...
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... determined . I was once in a meeting of very learned and ingenious physicians , where by chance there arose a question , whether any liquor passed through the filaments of the nerves . The debate having been ma- naged a good while , by ...
... determined . I was once in a meeting of very learned and ingenious physicians , where by chance there arose a question , whether any liquor passed through the filaments of the nerves . The debate having been ma- naged a good while , by ...
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... determine its signification . I think all agree to make it stand for a body of a certain yellow shining colour ; which being the idea to which children have annexed that name , the shining yellow part of a peacock's tail is properly to ...
... determine its signification . I think all agree to make it stand for a body of a certain yellow shining colour ; which being the idea to which children have annexed that name , the shining yellow part of a peacock's tail is properly to ...
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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...