Philosophical Essays Concerning Human UnderstandingGeorg Olms Verlag, 1750 - 259 Seiten |
Inhalt
| 1 | |
Of the ORIGIN of IDEAS | 21 |
Of the CONNEXIONS of IDEAS | 31 |
SCEPTICAL DOUBTS concerning | 47 |
Sceptical SOLUTION of thefe DOUBTS | 69 |
VI Of PROBABILITY | 93 |
Of the IDEA of POWER or NECESSARY | 99 |
Of LIBERTY and NECESSITY | 129 |
Of the REASON of ANIMALS | 165 |
CES of NATURAL RELIGION | 205 |
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abfurd abſtract Actions Affurance againſt alfo allow'd alſo appear Argument arife becauſe Body Cafe carry'd Caufe and Effect Cauſe cerning Circumftances Conclufion Confequences confifts conftant conjoin'd Connexion betwixt Courfe Courſe of Nature deriv'd Difpute diftinct diſcover Enquiry epic Poetry Epicurus Events Evidence Exiftence Exiſtence Experience Falfhood fame farther fecret feems fenfible Qualities ferve fhall fimilar fince fingle firft firſt fome ftill ftrong fuch fufficient fuppofe fuppos'd furely greateſt Hiftory himſelf human Idea Imagination Impreffion infer Inftance itſelf juft laft leaſt lefs ligion Mankind Matter of Fact ment Mind Miracle moft moral moſt muft muſt neceffary Neceffity never Number Obfervation Objects Operations oppofite ourſelves Paffions particular paſt Perfon Philofophers Pleaſure poffible Power prefent Principles produc'd Propofition Queſtion Refemblance refult requifite rience Science ſeems Senfes Sentiment ſhall ſhould Species ſtill Suppofition Syftem Teftimony thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thro tion Tranfition ufual Underſtanding univerfally uſeful
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Seite 59 - ... human body. Sight or feeling conveys an idea of the actual motion of bodies; but as to that wonderful force or power, which would carry on a moving body for ever in a continued change of place, and which bodies never lose but by communicating it to others; of this we cannot form the most distant conception. But notwithstanding this ignorance of natural powers...
Seite 58 - It must certainly be allowed, that nature has kept us at a great distance from all her secrets, and has afforded us only the knowledge of a few superficial qualities of objects; while she conceals from us those powers and principles on which the influence of those objects entirely depends.
Seite 167 - A horse that has been accustomed to the field, becomes acquainted with the proper height which he can leap, and will never attempt what exceeds his force and ability. An old greyhound will trust the more fatiguing part of the...
Seite 63 - To endeavour, therefore, the proof of this last supposition by probable arguments, or arguments regarding existence, must be evidently going in a circle, and taking that for granted, which is the very point in question.
Seite 66 - No reading, no enquiry has yet been able to remove my difficulty, or give me satisfaction in a matter of such importance. Can I do better than propose the difficulty to the public, even though, perhaps, I have small hopes of obtaining a solution ? We shall, at least, by this means, be sensible of our ignorance, if we do not augment our knowledge.
Seite 111 - But do we pretend to be acquainted with the nature of the human soul and the nature of an idea, or the aptitude of the one to produce the other...
Seite 107 - Secondly, We are not able to move all the organs of the body with a like authority; though we cannot assign any reason besides experience, for so remarkable a difference between one and the other.
Seite 202 - What we have said of miracles, may be applied without any variation to prophecies ; and, indeed, all prophecies are real miracles, and as such, only can be admitted as proofs of any revelation.
Seite 180 - A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined.