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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Side viii
... whereof I am not fully persuaded : yet I consider myself as liable to mis- takes , as I can think thee , and know that this book must stand or fall with thee , not by any opinion I have of it , but thy own . If thou findest little in it ...
... whereof I am not fully persuaded : yet I consider myself as liable to mis- takes , as I can think thee , and know that this book must stand or fall with thee , not by any opinion I have of it , but thy own . If thou findest little in it ...
Side xxx
... Whereof the instransla- table words of divers lan- guages are a proof . 9. This shows species to be made for communication . 10 , 11 In mixed modes , it is the name that ties the com- bination together , and makes it a species . 12. For ...
... Whereof the instransla- table words of divers lan- guages are a proof . 9. This shows species to be made for communication . 10 , 11 In mixed modes , it is the name that ties the com- bination together , and makes it a species . 12. For ...
Side xxxi
... Whereof there are proba- bly numberlesss species , 13. The nominal essence that of the species proved from water and ice . 14-18 . Difficulties against a cer- tain number of real essences . 19. Our nominal essences of substances , not ...
... Whereof there are proba- bly numberlesss species , 13. The nominal essence that of the species proved from water and ice . 14-18 . Difficulties against a cer- tain number of real essences . 19. Our nominal essences of substances , not ...
Side 34
... whereof we have no certain know ledge , we ought to regulate our assent , and moderate our persuasions . In order whereunto , I shall pursue this fol- lowing method . First , I shall enquire into the original of those ideas , notions ...
... whereof we have no certain know ledge , we ought to regulate our assent , and moderate our persuasions . In order whereunto , I shall pursue this fol- lowing method . First , I shall enquire into the original of those ideas , notions ...
Side 35
... whereof ( as it has perhaps too of ten happened ) we have not any notions at all . If we can find out how far the understanding can extend its view , how far it has faculties to attain certainty , and in what cases it can only judge and ...
... whereof ( as it has perhaps too of ten happened ) we have not any notions at all . If we can find out how far the understanding can extend its view , how far it has faculties to attain certainty , and in what cases it can only judge and ...
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Side 354 - 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 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 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 165 - ... a closet wholly shut from light, with only some little openings left to let in external visible resemblances, or ideas of things without: would the pictures coming into such a dark room but stay there, and lie so orderly as to be found upon occasion, it would very much resemble the understanding of a...
Side 418 - ... trains of motion in the animal spirits, which once set agoing continue in the same steps they have been used to, which by often treading are worn into a smooth path, and the motion in it becomes easy, and as it were natural.
Side 139 - I think it is easy to draw this observation, that the ideas of primary qualities of bodies are resemblances of them, and their patterns do really exist in the bodies themselves; but the ideas produced in us by these secondary qualities have no resemblance of them at all.
Side 137 - First, such as are utterly inseparable from the body, in what estate soever it be : such as, in all the alterations and changes it suffers, all the force can be used upon it, it constantly keeps; and such as sense constantly finds in every particle of matter which has bulk enough to be perceived, and the mind finds inseparable from every particle of matter, though less than to make itself singly be perceived by our senses...
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 296 - An obscure and relative idea of substance in general being thus made, we come to have the ideas of particular sorts of substances, by collecting such combinations of simple ideas as are, by experience and observation of men's senses, taken notice of to exist together, and are therefore supposed to flow from the particular internal constitution or unknown essence of that substance.
Side 352 - 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.