An essay concerning human understanding. To which are now added, i. analysis of mr. Locke's doctrine of ideas [&c.].1824 |
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... Light in the mind , what . 14. Revelation must be judged of by reason . 15 , 16 , Belief , no proof of reve- lation . CHAP . XX . Of wrong assent , or errour . SECT . 1. Causes of errour . 2. First , want of proofs . 3. Obj . What shall ...
... Light in the mind , what . 14. Revelation must be judged of by reason . 15 , 16 , Belief , no proof of reve- lation . CHAP . XX . Of wrong assent , or errour . SECT . 1. Causes of errour . 2. First , want of proofs . 3. Obj . What shall ...
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... light into the nature of our ideas , if they had been but considered with atten- tion . The mind , as has been shown , has a power to abstract its ideas , and so they become essences , general essences , whereby the sorts of things are ...
... light into the nature of our ideas , if they had been but considered with atten- tion . The mind , as has been shown , has a power to abstract its ideas , and so they become essences , general essences , whereby the sorts of things are ...
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... light of reason , that they to whom this written word never came , could not ( when- ever they set themselves to search ) either doubt of the being of a God , or of the obedience due to him . Since then the precepts of natural religion ...
... light of reason , that they to whom this written word never came , could not ( when- ever they set themselves to search ) either doubt of the being of a God , or of the obedience due to him . Since then the precepts of natural religion ...
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... light , will not by such words be able to convey much of it to others , without defining his terms . For however the sounds are such as are familiarly known , and easily enter the ears of those who are accustomed to them ; yet standing ...
... light , will not by such words be able to convey much of it to others , without defining his terms . For however the sounds are such as are familiarly known , and easily enter the ears of those who are accustomed to them ; yet standing ...
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... light and greatest certainty we , with our faculties , and in our way of knowledge , are capable of ; it may not be amiss to consider a little the degrees of its evidence . The different clearness of our knowledge seems to me to lie in ...
... light and greatest certainty we , with our faculties , and in our way of knowledge , are capable of ; it may not be amiss to consider a little the degrees of its evidence . The different clearness of our knowledge seems to me to lie in ...
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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 69 - This part of knowledge is irresistible, and, like bright sunshine, forces itself immediately to be perceived as soon as ever the mind turns its view that way; and leaves no room for hesitation, doubt or examination, but the mind is presently filled with the clear light of it.
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.30 For in all sorts of reasoning every single argument should be managed as a mathematical demonstration; the connection and dependence of ideas...
Page 81 - For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts ; even one thing befalleth them : as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath ; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast : for all is vanity. All go unto one place ; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Page 41 - But yet if we would speak of things as they are, we must allow that all the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness, all the artificial and figurative application of words eloquence hath invented, are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgment, and so indeed are perfect cheats...
Page 297 - The consideration then of ideas and words, as the great instruments of knowledge, makes no despicable part of their contemplation, who would take a view of human knowledge in the whole extent of it. And, perhaps, if they were distinctly weighed, and duly considered, they would afford us another sort of logic and critic, than what we have been hitherto acquainted with.
Page 332 - As it is in the body, so it is in the mind, practice makes it what it is ; and most even of those excellencies which are looked on as natural endowments, will be found, when examined into more narrowly, to be the product of exercise, and to be raised to that pitch only by repeated actions.
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 82 - ... For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?