An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Bind 1T. Longman, 1796 - 459 sider |
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... seem to queftion it . But yet I take liberty o fay , that these propofitions are so far from having an iniverfal affent , that there are great part of mankind o whom they are not fo much as known . Not on the ind natu illy im- § . 5 ...
... seem to queftion it . But yet I take liberty o fay , that these propofitions are so far from having an iniverfal affent , that there are great part of mankind o whom they are not fo much as known . Not on the ind natu illy im- § . 5 ...
Side 62
... seems stranger to me , that a whole nation of men should be any where found so brutish , as to want the notion of a God ; than that they should be without any notion of numbers , or fire . § . 10. The name of God being once mentioned in ...
... seems stranger to me , that a whole nation of men should be any where found so brutish , as to want the notion of a God ; than that they should be without any notion of numbers , or fire . § . 10. The name of God being once mentioned in ...
Side 79
... seems to me not to have the leaft glimmering of any ideas , which it doth not receive from one of these two . External objects furnish the of these . mind with the ideas of fenfible qualities , which are all those different perceptions ...
... seems to me not to have the leaft glimmering of any ideas , which it doth not receive from one of these two . External objects furnish the of these . mind with the ideas of fenfible qualities , which are all those different perceptions ...
Side 125
... seem to be crouded into an inftant . I fpeak this in comparison to the actions of the body . Any one may easily observe this in his own thoughts , who will take the pains to reflect on them . How , as it were in an instant , do our ...
... seem to be crouded into an inftant . I fpeak this in comparison to the actions of the body . Any one may easily observe this in his own thoughts , who will take the pains to reflect on them . How , as it were in an instant , do our ...
Side 133
... seems to me impoffible , that they fhould endea- vour to conform their voices to notes ( as it is plain they do ) of which they had no ideas . For though I fhould . K 3 gran grant found may mechanically caufe a certain motion of the Ch ...
... seems to me impoffible , that they fhould endea- vour to conform their voices to notes ( as it is plain they do ) of which they had no ideas . For though I fhould . K 3 gran grant found may mechanically caufe a certain motion of the Ch ...
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Side 80 - ... got; which operations, when the soul comes to reflect on and consider, do furnish the understanding with another set of ideas which could not be had from things without; and such are perception, thinking, doubting, believing, reasoning...
Side 310 - From whence it seems probable to me, that the simple ideas we receive from sensation and reflection are the boundaries of our thoughts; beyond which, the mind, whatever efforts it would make, is not able to advance one jot; nor can it make any discoveries, when it would pry into the nature and hidden causes of those ideas.
Side 438 - ... for example. And thus they come to have a general name, and a general idea. Wherein they make nothing new, but only leave out of the complex idea they had of Peter and James, Mary and Jane that which is peculiar to each, and retain only what is common to them all.
Side 142 - ... do not appear to me to have lost the faculty of reasoning; but having joined together some ideas very wrongly, they mistake them for truths, and they err as men do that argue right from wrong principles.
Side 355 - But some man will say, How are the dead raised up ? and with what body do they come ? Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die. And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain: but God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him; and to every seed his own body.
Side 80 - ... mind several distinct perceptions of things, according to those various ways wherein those objects do affect them: and thus we come by those ideas we have, of Yellow, White, Heat, Cold, Soft, Hard, Bitter, Sweet, and all those which we call sensible qualities; which when I say the senses convey into the mind, I mean, they from external objects convey into the mind what produces there those perceptions. This great source of most of the ideas we have, depending wholly upon our senses, and derived...
Side 224 - ... it only communicates the motion it had received from another, and loses in itself so much as the other received...
Side 222 - ... by the determination of its own choice; and concluding from what it has so constantly observed to have been, that the like changes will for the future be made, in the same things, by like agents, and by the like ways, considers in one thing the possibility of having any of its simple ideas changed, and in another the possibility of making that change ; and so comes by that idea which we call Power.
Side 262 - Who will render to every man according to his deeds: To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life : But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil...
Side 224 - The idea of the beginning of motion we have only from reflection on what passes in ourselves, where we find by experience, that barely by willing it, barely by a thought of the mind, we can move the parts of our bodies which were before at rest.