An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Bind 1T. Longman, 1796 - 459 sider |
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... and yet not retain it the next mo- ment , very improbable , 20-23 . No ideas but from fenfa- tion , or reflection , evi- dent , if we observe chil- dren . 24. The 24. The original of all our knowledge . CHAP . The CONTENT S.
... and yet not retain it the next mo- ment , very improbable , 20-23 . No ideas but from fenfa- tion , or reflection , evi- dent , if we observe chil- dren . 24. The 24. The original of all our knowledge . CHAP . The CONTENT S.
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... time of their difcovery . How many instances of the use of reafon may we observe in children , a long time before they have any knowledge of of this maxim , " That it is impoffible for 18 Book I. No Innate Principles in the Mind .
... time of their difcovery . How many instances of the use of reafon may we observe in children , a long time before they have any knowledge of of this maxim , " That it is impoffible for 18 Book I. No Innate Principles in the Mind .
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... observe , § . 16. First , that these five propositions are either not all , or more than all , thofe common notions writ on our minds by the finger of God , if it were reasonable to believe any at all to be fo written : fince there are ...
... observe , § . 16. First , that these five propositions are either not all , or more than all , thofe common notions writ on our minds by the finger of God , if it were reasonable to believe any at all to be fo written : fince there are ...
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... observation of things , that come in their way , furnish them with : which might be enough to fatisfy us , that they are not original charac- ters ftamped on the mind . § . 3. " It is impoffible for the fame thing to be , and not to be ...
... observation of things , that come in their way , furnish them with : which might be enough to fatisfy us , that they are not original charac- ters ftamped on the mind . § . 3. " It is impoffible for the fame thing to be , and not to be ...
Side 78
... observing in ourselves , do from these receive into our understandings as diftinct ideas , as we do from bodies affecting our fenfes . This fource of ideas every man has wholly in himself ; and though it be not fenfe , as having nothing ...
... observing in ourselves , do from these receive into our understandings as diftinct ideas , as we do from bodies affecting our fenfes . This fource of ideas every man has wholly in himself ; and though it be not fenfe , as having nothing ...
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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.