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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... serve for recording . 3. Communication bywords , civil or philosophical , 4. Theimperfection of words is the doubtfulness of their signification . 5. Causes of their imperfec- 8 tion . 6. The names of mixed modes doubtful : first ...
... serve for recording . 3. Communication bywords , civil or philosophical , 4. Theimperfection of words is the doubtfulness of their signification . 5. Causes of their imperfec- 8 tion . 6. The names of mixed modes doubtful : first ...
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... Serves not to increase our knowledge , but fence with it . 7. Other helps should be sought . 8. We reason about particu . lars . 9. First , reason fails us for want of ideas . 10. Secondly , because of ob . scure and imperfect ideas ...
... Serves not to increase our knowledge , but fence with it . 7. Other helps should be sought . 8. We reason about particu . lars . 9. First , reason fails us for want of ideas . 10. Secondly , because of ob . scure and imperfect ideas ...
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... serve for recording . § . 2. As to the first of these , for the re- cording our own thoughts for the help of our own memories , whereby , as it were , we talk to ourselves , any words will serve the turn . For since sounds are voluntary ...
... serve for recording . § . 2. As to the first of these , for the re- cording our own thoughts for the help of our own memories , whereby , as it were , we talk to ourselves , any words will serve the turn . For since sounds are voluntary ...
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... serve for the upholding common conversation and com merce , about the ordinary affairs and conveniencies of civil life , in the societies of men one amongst another . Secondly , by the philosophical use of words , I mean such an use of ...
... serve for the upholding common conversation and com merce , about the ordinary affairs and conveniencies of civil life , in the societies of men one amongst another . Secondly , by the philosophical use of words , I mean such an use of ...
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... serve to this purpose , as to leave these names without very various and uncertain significations . Because these simple ideas that co - exist , and are united in the same subject , being very numerous , and having all an equal right to ...
... serve to this purpose , as to leave these names without very various and uncertain significations . Because these simple ideas that co - exist , and are united in the same subject , being very numerous , and having all an equal right 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...