 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 Works of John Locke - Page 113by John Locke - 1823Full view - About this book
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1824 - 702 pages
...different significations: sometimes it is taken for true and clear principles; sometimes for clear and fair deductions from those principles; and sometimes for...particularly the final cause. But the consideration 1 shall have of it here, is in a signification different from all these: and that is, as it stands... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - 1824 - 218 pages
...principles. . 3°. The cause, and particularly the final cause. ; •• 4°. That faculty by which man is supposed to be distinguished from beasts, and wherein it is evident he much surpasses them. There are two faculties employed in reasoning, sagacity and illation. Sagacity is the faculty... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1828 - 432 pages
...siglanguage has different significations: nificatious of sometimes it is taken for true and clear thc word principles; sometimes for clear and fair reason deductions...beasts, and wherein ' it is evident he much surpasses them. VOL. in. I is, to show the connexion of the proofs in any one instance, and no more : but in... | |
 | John Locke - 1828 - 422 pages
...siglanguage has different significations: nifications of sometimes it is taken for true and clear tlie word. principles; sometimes for clear and fair reason deductions...beasts, and wherein it is evident he much surpasses them. VOL. ur. I Wherein § 2. If general knowledge, as has been reasoning shown, consists in a perception... | |
 | Extracts - 1828 - 786 pages
...significations ; sometimes it. is taken for true and clear principles; sometimes for clear and fair deductions from those principles; and sometimes for...whereby man is supposed to be distinguished from beasts, ami wherein it is evident he much surpasses them. Why am I led thus captive by my will, While reason,... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1828 - 602 pages
...significations ; sometimes it if taken for true and clear principles ; sometimes for clear and fair deductions from those principles ; and sometimes for...different from all these ; and that is, as it stands fora faculty m man, that faculty whereby man is supposed to be distinguished from beasts, and wherein... | |
 | Alfred Lyall - Truth - 1830 - 682 pages
...Fourth Book, which treats of reason, Mr. Locke states that he intends that word " to stand for the faculty whereby man is supposed to be distinguished...beasts, and wherein it is evident he much surpasses them." This definition, or rather description, is somewhat vague; nor is it easy to collect from what... | |
 | John Locke - 1831 - 458 pages
...for clear and fair deductions from those principles ; sometimes for the cause, and particularly for the final cause : but the consideration I shall have of it here, is, as it stands for a faculty, whereby man is supposed to be distinguished from beasts, and wherein it... | |
 | English literature - 1831 - 536 pages
...for clear and fair deductions from those principles ; sometimes for the cause, and particularly for the final cause : but the consideration I shall have of it here, is, as it stands for a faculty, whereby man is supposed to be distinguished from beasts, and wherein it... | |
 | Joseph Blanco White - Christianity - 1835 - 144 pages
...that Spirit, knows what it is we wish for. § "The consideration I shall have of it (reason) here.. . is as it stands for a faculty in man, that faculty...distinguished from beasts, and wherein it is evident that he surpasses them." — Locke on Humrtn Understanding, b. 4, c. xvii. 58 impulses — the reason... | |
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