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 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 61
Page 16
... sides , I ( who had been used to suspect , that the greatest part of disputes was more about the signification of words than a real difference in the conception of things ) desired , that before they went any farther on in this dis ...
... sides , I ( who had been used to suspect , that the greatest part of disputes was more about the signification of words than a real difference in the conception of things ) desired , that before they went any farther on in this dis ...
Page 26
... side , but the last word in the dispute . Calling it subtilty . § . 8. This , though a very useless skill , and that which I think the direct opposite to the ways of knowledge , hath yet passed hitherto under the laudable and esteemed ...
... side , but the last word in the dispute . Calling it subtilty . § . 8. This , though a very useless skill , and that which I think the direct opposite to the ways of knowledge , hath yet passed hitherto under the laudable and esteemed ...
Page 60
... side , perhaps others , with me , may think it a defence against error , and so ( as being of good use ) to be received and adhered to . I would not , my lord , be hereby thought to set up my own , or any one's judgment against your ...
... side , perhaps others , with me , may think it a defence against error , and so ( as being of good use ) to be received and adhered to . I would not , my lord , be hereby thought to set up my own , or any one's judgment against your ...
Page 64
... side , endeavour to show your lordship that that definition of mine , whether true or false , right or wrong , can be of no dangerous consequence to that article of faith . The reason which I shall offer for it , is this : because it ...
... side , endeavour to show your lordship that that definition of mine , whether true or false , right or wrong , can be of no dangerous consequence to that article of faith . The reason which I shall offer for it , is this : because it ...
Page 66
... side , assents to , and is certain of the truth of it . This , I think , one may call habitual knowledge : and thus a man may be said to know all those truths which are lodged in his memory , by a foregoing , clear and full perception ...
... side , assents to , and is certain of the truth of it . This , I think , one may call habitual knowledge : and thus a man may be said to know all those truths which are lodged in his memory , by a foregoing , clear and full perception ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
abstract ideas Æneid affirmed agree agreement or disagreement annexed assent bishop of Worcester body called capable cerning certainty changeling Cicero co-exist colour complex idea conceive concerning connexion consider credibility demonstration discourse discover disputes distinct ideas doubt equal essence of matter eternal evidence examine faculty of thinking faith farther gism give gold hath ideas they stand ignorance immaterial substance immortality imperfection inquiry intuitive knowledge language ledge lordship malleableness maxims men's ment mind mixed modes moral motion names of substances nature never nexion obscurity observe omnipotent opinions particular perceive perception perfect precise principles produce proofs propositions qualities rational real essence reason religion repug revelation Secondly sense signification simple ideas soever sort soul sounds species spirit stances suppose syllogism tain things thought tion triangle true truth understanding universal propositions unquestionable truths whereby wherein whereof whilst words
Popular passages
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...