An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Band 2J. Johnson, W. J. and J. Richardson, W. Otridge and Son, F. C. and J. Rivington, D. Ogilvy and Son, Leigh and Sotheby, T. Payne, [and 11 others], and J. Mawman, 1805 - 510 Seiten |
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... precise notions of things , and to express , in general proposi- tions , certain and undoubted truths , which the mind may rest upon , and be satisfied witlr , in its search after true knowledge . These two uses are very distinct ; and ...
... precise notions of things , and to express , in general proposi- tions , certain and undoubted truths , which the mind may rest upon , and be satisfied witlr , in its search after true knowledge . These two uses are very distinct ; and ...
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... precise idea , without any the least variation . Hence it comes to pass , that men's names of very compound ideas , such as for the most part are moral words , have seldom , in two different men , the same precise signifi- cation ...
... precise idea , without any the least variation . Hence it comes to pass , that men's names of very compound ideas , such as for the most part are moral words , have seldom , in two different men , the same precise signifi- cation ...
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... precise signification of words , nor determined to what ideas any one shall annex them , common use is not sufficient to adjust them to philosophical discourses ; there being . scarce any name of any very complex idea ( to say nothing ...
... precise signification of words , nor determined to what ideas any one shall annex them , common use is not sufficient to adjust them to philosophical discourses ; there being . scarce any name of any very complex idea ( to say nothing ...
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... precise mean- ing of names , these moral words are in most men's mouths little more than bare sounds ; or when they have any , it is for the most part but a very loose and unde termined , and consequently obscure and confused signi ...
... precise mean- ing of names , these moral words are in most men's mouths little more than bare sounds ; or when they have any , it is for the most part but a very loose and unde termined , and consequently obscure and confused signi ...
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... precise and definite number , they are differently discovered by dif- ferent men , according to their various skill , attention , and ways of handling ; who therefore cannot choose but have different ideas of the same substance , and ...
... precise and definite number , they are differently discovered by dif- ferent men , according to their various skill , attention , and ways of handling ; who therefore cannot choose but have different ideas of the same substance , and ...
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abstract ideas Æneid affirmed agree agreement or disagreement annexed assent bishop of Worcester body called capable cerning certainty changeling Cicero co-exist colour complex idea conceive concerning connexion consider credibility demonstration discourse discover disputes distinct ideas doubt equal essence of matter eternal evidence examine faculty of thinking faith farther gism give gold hath ideas they stand ignorance immaterial substance immortality imperfection inquiry intuitive knowledge language ledge lordship malleableness maxims men's ment mind mixed modes moral motion names of substances nature never nexion obscurity observe omnipotent opinions particular perceive perception perfect precise principles produce proofs propositions qualities rational real essence reason religion repug revelation Secondly sense signification simple ideas soever sort soul sounds species spirit stances suppose syllogism tain things thought tion triangle true truth understanding universal propositions unquestionable truths whereby wherein whereof whilst words
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 102 - Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament ; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
Seite 127 - 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.
Seite 102 - As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.
Seite 273 - Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal Father of light, and fountain of all knowledge, communicates to mankind that portion of truth which he has laid within the reach of their natural faculties: 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.
Seite 339 - I have mentioned mathematics as a way to settle in the mind a habit of reasoning closely and in train ; not that I think it necessary that all men should be deep mathematicians, but that, having got the way of reasoning which that study necessarily brings the mind to, they might be able to transfer it to other parts of knowledge, as they shall have occasion.
Seite 201 - ... deserves the name of knowledge. If we persuade ourselves that our faculties act and inform us right concerning the existence of those objects that affect them, it cannot pass for an ill-grounded confidence: for I think nobody can, in earnest, be so sceptical as to be uncertain of the existence of those things which he sees and feels.
Seite 163 - ... neither oblique nor rectangle, neither equilateral, equicrural, nor scalenon ; but all and none of these at once. In effect, it is something imperfect, that cannot exist ; an idea wherein some parts of several different and inconsistent ideas are put together.
Seite 438 - Heat is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts of the object, which produces in us that sensation, from whence we denominate the object hot ; so what in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing b,ut motion.
Seite 69 - For if we reflect on our own ways of thinking, we shall find that sometimes the mind perceives the agreement or disagreement of two ideas immediately by themselves, without the intervention of any other: and this, I think, we may call intuitive knowledge.
Seite 214 - For the ideas that ethics are conversant about being all real essences, and such as I imagine have a discoverable connexion and agreement one with another ; so far as we can find their habitudes and relations, so far we shall be possessed of certain, real, and general truths : and I doubt not, but, if a right method were taken, a great part of morality might be made out with that clearness, that could leave, to a considering man, no more reason to doubt, than he could have to doubt of the truth of...