An essay concerning human understanding. Also, extr. from the author's works, i. Analysis of mr. Locke's doctrine of ideas [&c.].for D. McVean, 1819 |
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... cerning the understanding . For I thought that the first step towards satisfying several enquiries , the mind of man was very apt to run into , was to take a survey of our own understandings , examine our own powers , and see to what ...
... cerning the understanding . For I thought that the first step towards satisfying several enquiries , the mind of man was very apt to run into , was to take a survey of our own understandings , examine our own powers , and see to what ...
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... cerning the same thing , and should find by examining , that they had the same thoughts too . But what great obligation this would be to the world , or weighty cause of turning over and looking into books , I confess I do not see . The ...
... cerning the same thing , and should find by examining , that they had the same thoughts too . But what great obligation this would be to the world , or weighty cause of turning over and looking into books , I confess I do not see . The ...
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... cerning moral rules , which are to be found among men , according to the different sorts of happiness they have a prospect of , or propose to themselves : which could not be if practical principles were innate , and imprinted in our ...
... cerning moral rules , which are to be found among men , according to the different sorts of happiness they have a prospect of , or propose to themselves : which could not be if practical principles were innate , and imprinted in our ...
Side 102
... cerning all that was once styled innate . And it was of no small advantage to those who affected to be masters and teachers , to make this the principle of principles , " that principles must not " be questioned , " for having once ...
... cerning all that was once styled innate . And it was of no small advantage to those who affected to be masters and teachers , to make this the principle of principles , " that principles must not " be questioned , " for having once ...
Side 247
... cerning a man's liberty , there yet therefore is raised this farther question , whether a man be free to will ? which , I think , is what is meant when it is disputed whether the will be free . And as to that I imagine , § . 23 . 2 ...
... cerning a man's liberty , there yet therefore is raised this farther question , whether a man be free to will ? which , I think , is what is meant when it is disputed whether the will be free . And as to that I imagine , § . 23 . 2 ...
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Side 159 - ... lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another.
Side 136 - Whatsoever the mind perceives in itself, or is the immediate object of perception, thought, or understanding, that I call idea; and the power to produce any idea in our mind, I call quality of the subject wherein that power is.
Side 45 - It is an established opinion amongst some men, that there are in the understanding certain innate principles; some primary notions, Koival (.wouu, characters, as it were stamped upon the mind of man, which the soul receives in its very first being, and brings into the world with it.
Side 352 - For we must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
Side 350 - And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; and the graves were opened ; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
Side 120 - These, when we have taken a full survey of them, and their several modes, [combinations, and relations,] we shall find to contain all our whole stock of ideas; and that we have nothing in our minds which did not come in one of these two ways.
Side 143 - The power that is in any body, by reason of the particular constitution of its primary qualities, to make such a change in the bulk, figure, texture, and motion of another body, as to make it operate on our senses differently from what it did before. Thus the sun has a power to make wax white, and fire to make lead fluid.
Side 104 - Every man being conscious to himself that he thinks, and that which his mind is applied about whilst thinking being the ideas that are there, it is past doubt that men have in their minds several ideas, such as are those expressed by the words, "whiteness, hardness, sweetness, thinking, motion, man, elephant, army, drunkenness,
Side 152 - ... this laying up of our ideas in the repository of the memory, signifies no more but this, that the mind has a power in many cases to revive perceptions, which it has once had, with this additional perception annexed to them, that it has had them before.
Side 149 - I think, usual in any of our ideas but those received by sight ; because sight, the most comprehensive of all our senses, conveying to our minds the ideas of light and colours, which are peculiar only to that sense ; and also the far different ideas of space, figure, and motion, the several varieties whereof change the appearances of its proper objects, viz.