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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... suppose , or intend they should stand for the real essence of a certain sort of substances . For when a man says gold is malleable , he means and would insinuate something more than this , that what I call gold is malleable , ( though ...
... suppose , or intend they should stand for the real essence of a certain sort of substances . For when a man says gold is malleable , he means and would insinuate something more than this , that what I call gold is malleable , ( though ...
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... suppose it annexed to a real immutable essence of a thing existing , on which those properties depend . He that adds to his complex idea of gold that of fixedness and solubility in aq . regia , which he put not in it before , is not ...
... suppose it annexed to a real immutable essence of a thing existing , on which those properties depend . He that adds to his complex idea of gold that of fixedness and solubility in aq . regia , which he put not in it before , is not ...
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... suppose that there were such a specifick essence known ? which yet is utterly false and therefore such application of names , as would make them stand for ideas which we have not , must needs cause great disorder in discourses and ...
... suppose that there were such a specifick essence known ? which yet is utterly false and therefore such application of names , as would make them stand for ideas which we have not , must needs cause great disorder in discourses and ...
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... suppose one cannot but understand what their meaning is ; and therefore one ought to acquiesce in the words delivered , as if it were past doubt , that , in the use of those common received sounds , the speaker and hearer had ...
... suppose one cannot but understand what their meaning is ; and therefore one ought to acquiesce in the words delivered , as if it were past doubt , that , in the use of those common received sounds , the speaker and hearer had ...
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... suppose the other ideas , which make up our complex idea of that species , annexed ; we forwardly give the specifick name to that thing , wherein that characteristical mark is found , which we take to be the most distinguishing idea of ...
... suppose the other ideas , which make up our complex idea of that species , annexed ; we forwardly give the specifick name to that thing , wherein that characteristical mark is found , which we take to be the most distinguishing idea of ...
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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...