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... Opinion concerning Personal Identity 177 Appendix to the Defence of Mr. Locke's Opinion concerning Of the Conduct of the Understanding - 199 - 203 Some thoughts concerning Reading and Study for a Gentleman 291 Elements of Natural ...
... Opinion concerning Personal Identity 177 Appendix to the Defence of Mr. Locke's Opinion concerning Of the Conduct of the Understanding - 199 - 203 Some thoughts concerning Reading and Study for a Gentleman 291 Elements of Natural ...
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... opinion . ) 3. But from the comparing clear and distinct ideas . 4. Dangerous to build upon precarious principles . 5. This no certain way to truth . 6. But to compare clear , complete ideas under steady names . 7. The true method of ...
... opinion . ) 3. But from the comparing clear and distinct ideas . 4. Dangerous to build upon precarious principles . 5. This no certain way to truth . 6. But to compare clear , complete ideas under steady names . 7. The true method of ...
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... opinion , and has not that certainty which is requisite to knowledge . For all general knowledge lies only in our own thoughts , and consists barely in the contemplation of our own abstract ideas . Where- ever we perceive any agreement ...
... opinion , and has not that certainty which is requisite to knowledge . For all general knowledge lies only in our own thoughts , and consists barely in the contemplation of our own abstract ideas . Where- ever we perceive any agreement ...
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... opinions often involving contradictions , one of these maxims , as a touch - stone , may serve well to show whither they lead . But yet , however fit to lay open the absurdity or mistake of a man's reasoning or opinion , they are of ...
... opinions often involving contradictions , one of these maxims , as a touch - stone , may serve well to show whither they lead . But yet , however fit to lay open the absurdity or mistake of a man's reasoning or opinion , they are of ...
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... that they destroy their own hypothesis . For if there can be , in their opinion , eternal matter , without any eternal cogitative being , they manifestly separate matter 62 Knowledge of the Existence of a God . Book 4 .
... that they destroy their own hypothesis . For if there can be , in their opinion , eternal matter , without any eternal cogitative being , they manifestly separate matter 62 Knowledge of the Existence of a God . Book 4 .
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Page 149 - 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 222 - 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 149 - I mean enthusiasm : which, laying^ by reason, would set up revelation without it; whereby in effect it takes away both reason and revelation, and substitutes in the room of it the ungrounded fancies of a man's own brain, and assumes them for a foundation both of opinion and conduct.
Page 70 - It is plain those perceptions are produced in us by exterior causes affecting our senses, because those that want the organs of any sense never can have the ideas belonging to that sense produced in their minds. This is too evident to be doubted: and therefore we cannot but be assured that they come in by the organs of that sense, and no other way. The organs themselves, it is plain, do not produce them; for then the eyes of a man in the dark would produce colours, and his nose smell roses in the...
Page 139 - Thou art, of what sort the eternal life of the saints was to be, which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive.
Page 113 - THE word REASON in the English language has different significations: sometimes it is taken for true and clear principles: sometimes for clear and fair deductions from those principles: and sometimes for the cause, and particularly the final cause. But the consideration I shall have of it here is in a signification different from all these; and that is, as it stands for a faculty in man, that faculty whereby man is supposed to be distinguished from beasts, and wherein it is evident he much surpasses...
Page 137 - I think it may not be amiss to take notice, that however faith be opposed to reason, faith is nothing but a firm assent of the mind : which if it be regulated, as is our duty, cannot be afforded to any thing but upon good reason ; and so cannot be opposite to it. He that believes, without having any reason for believing, may be in love with his own fancies; but neither seeks truth as he ought, nor pays the obedience due to his Maker...
Page 313 - New Experiments Physico-mechanical, touching the spring of the air, and its effects; (made for the most part in a new pneumatical engine) written .... by the honourable Robert Boyle, Esq.
Page 138 - I take to be the discovery of the certainty or probability of such propositions or truths which the mind arrives at by deduction made from such ideas which it has got by the use of its natural faculties, viz., by sensation or reflection. Faith, on the other side, is the assent to any proposition, not thus made out by the deductions of reason, but upon the credit of the proposer, as coming from God in some extraordinary way of communication.
Page 58 - ... so clearly and cogently to our thoughts, that I deem it impossible for a considering man to withstand them. For I judge it as certain and clear a truth, as can any where be delivered, that the invisible things of God are clearly seen from the creation of the world, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and godhead.