An essay concerning human understanding. Also, extr. from the author's works, i. Analysis of mr. Locke's doctrine of ideas [&c.]., Bind 1for D. McVean, 1819 |
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... whilst we sleep . 6-8 . The idea of succession not from motion . 9-11 . The train of ideas has a certain degree of quick . ness . 12. This train , the measure of other successions . 13-15 . The mind cannot fix long on one invariable ...
... whilst we sleep . 6-8 . The idea of succession not from motion . 9-11 . The train of ideas has a certain degree of quick . ness . 12. This train , the measure of other successions . 13-15 . The mind cannot fix long on one invariable ...
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... whilst it makes us see and perceive all other things , takes no no- tice of itself ; and it requires art and pains to set it at a distance , and make it its own object . But , whatever be the difficulties that lie in the way of this ...
... whilst it makes us see and perceive all other things , takes no no- tice of itself ; and it requires art and pains to set it at a distance , and make it its own object . But , whatever be the difficulties that lie in the way of this ...
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... whilst we let loose our thoughts into the vast ocean of being ; as if all that boundless extent were the natural and undoubted possession of our under- standings , wherein there was nothing exempt from its de- cisions , or that escaped ...
... whilst we let loose our thoughts into the vast ocean of being ; as if all that boundless extent were the natural and undoubted possession of our under- standings , wherein there was nothing exempt from its de- cisions , or that escaped ...
Side 47
... whilst it pretends to assert the contrary , says nothing dif- ferent from those who deny innate principles . For nobody , I think , ever denied that the mind was capable of know- ing several truths . The capacity , they say , is innate ...
... whilst it pretends to assert the contrary , says nothing dif- ferent from those who deny innate principles . For nobody , I think , ever denied that the mind was capable of know- ing several truths . The capacity , they say , is innate ...
Side 49
... whilst they make the know- ledge of those principles to depend on the labour of our thoughts . For all reasoning is search , and casting about , VOL . I. G and requires pains and application . And how can it CH . II . NO INNATE ...
... whilst they make the know- ledge of those principles to depend on the labour of our thoughts . For all reasoning is search , and casting about , VOL . I. G and requires pains and application . And how can it CH . II . NO INNATE ...
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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.