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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... Philosophy A new Method of Common - Place - Book Index to the Essay concerning Human Understanding . Additional Pieces in this Volume . THE CONTENTS OF THE ESSAY ON HUMAN UNDERSTANDING . CONTINUED Force of enthusiasm of probability; ...
... Philosophy A new Method of Common - Place - Book Index to the Essay concerning Human Understanding . Additional Pieces in this Volume . THE CONTENTS OF THE ESSAY ON HUMAN UNDERSTANDING . CONTINUED Force of enthusiasm of probability; ...
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... probability . 1. Probability is the appear . ance of agreement , upon fallible proofs . 2. It is to supply the want of knowledge . 3. Being that , which makes us presume things to be true , before we know them to be so . 4. The grounds ...
... probability . 1. Probability is the appear . ance of agreement , upon fallible proofs . 2. It is to supply the want of knowledge . 3. Being that , which makes us presume things to be true , before we know them to be so . 4. The grounds ...
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... probability . 13. One case , where contrary ex- perience lessens not the tes timony 14. The bare testimony of revela . tion is the highest certainty . SECT . CHAP . XVII . Of reason . 1. Various significations of the word reason . 2 ...
... probability . 13. One case , where contrary ex- perience lessens not the tes timony 14. The bare testimony of revela . tion is the highest certainty . SECT . CHAP . XVII . Of reason . 1. Various significations of the word reason . 2 ...
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... probability ; whereof 8-10 . First , doubtful proposi- tions , taken for principles . 11. Secondly , received hypo- theses . 12. Thirdly , passions . predominant 13. The means of evading probabilities , 1st , suppos ed fallacy . 14 ...
... probability ; whereof 8-10 . First , doubtful proposi- tions , taken for principles . 11. Secondly , received hypo- theses . 12. Thirdly , passions . predominant 13. The means of evading probabilities , 1st , suppos ed fallacy . 14 ...
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... probability enough , and by charging the want of demonstration upon my principle , that the thinking thing in us is immaterial , your lordship seems to conclude it demonstrable from principles of philo- .sophy . The demonstration I ...
... probability enough , and by charging the want of demonstration upon my principle , that the thinking thing in us is immaterial , your lordship seems to conclude it demonstrable from principles of philo- .sophy . The demonstration I ...
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Side 133 - It is evident the mind knows not things immediately, but only by the intervention of the ideas it has of them. Our knowledge therefore is real, only so far as there is a conformity between our ideas and the reality of things.
Side 120 - The idea of a supreme Being, infinite in power, goodness, and wisdom, whose workmanship we are and on whom we depend, and the idea of ourselves as understanding rational beings, being such as are clear in us, would, I suppose, if duly considered and pursued, afford such foundations of our duty and rules of action as might place morality amongst the sciences capable of demonstration: wherein I doubt not but from self-evident propositions, by necessary consequences as incontestable as those in mathematics,...
Side 265 - 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. So that he that takes away reason, to make way for revelation, puts out the light of both...
Side 239 - But God has not been so sparing to men to make them barely two-legged creatures, and left it to Aristotle to make them rational...
Side 78 - This part of knowledge is irresistible, and like bright sunshine forces itself immediately to be perceived, as soon as ever the mind turns its view that way; and leaves no room for hesitation, doubt, or examination, but the mind is presently filled with the clear light of it.
Side 321 - Just so it is in the mind; would you have a man reason well, you must use him to it betimes, exercise his mind in observing the connection of ideas and following them in train. Nothing does this better than mathematics, which therefore I think should be taught all those who have the time and opportunity, not so much to make them mathematicians as to make them reasonable creatures...
Side 286 - The consideration, then, of ideas and words as the great instruments of knowledge, makes no despicable part of their contemplation who would take a view of human knowledge in the whole extent of it. And perhaps, if they were distinctly weighed and duly considered, they would afford us another sort of logic and critic than what we have been hitherto acquainted with.
Side 263 - I think there is one unerring mark of it, viz. the not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance, than the proofs it is built upon will warrant. Whoever goes beyond this measure of assent, it is plain, receives not truth in the love of it; loves not truth for truth's sake, but for some other by-end.
Side 236 - THE word reason in the English language has different significations: sometimes it is taken for true ami 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...
Side 89 - God can, if He pleases, superadd to matter a faculty of thinking, than that He should superadd to it another substance with a faculty of thinking...