Philosophical Works: Preliminary discourse by the editor. On the conduct of the understanding. An essay concerning human understandingBell & Daldy, 1894 |
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... least possessed of considerable vitality . Hume , however , undertakes to clear up the mystery in the following manner : " Admitting , " says he , " these terms , impressions and ideas , in the sense above explained , and understanding ...
... least possessed of considerable vitality . Hume , however , undertakes to clear up the mystery in the following manner : " Admitting , " says he , " these terms , impressions and ideas , in the sense above explained , and understanding ...
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... beauties of language did not prevent him from calling in their aid whenever he stood in need of it , they at least led to false views with respect to their importance , which terminated at length 10 PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE .
... beauties of language did not prevent him from calling in their aid whenever he stood in need of it , they at least led to false views with respect to their importance , which terminated at length 10 PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE .
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... least accessible heights of speculation . The way being thus prepared the Essay follows , furnishing a body of philosophy worthy to be studied , together with instructions for subduing or removing all those difficulties capable of being ...
... least accessible heights of speculation . The way being thus prepared the Essay follows , furnishing a body of philosophy worthy to be studied , together with instructions for subduing or removing all those difficulties capable of being ...
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... least be based on departments of human experience in which Locke was deficient , never having been a husband or a father , and consequently lacking many of those views which it is impossible to take from any other positions . No man in ...
... least be based on departments of human experience in which Locke was deficient , never having been a husband or a father , and consequently lacking many of those views which it is impossible to take from any other positions . No man in ...
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... least to show that discipline and instruction , though incapable of imparting intellect , create , never- theless , most of those distinctions existing among mankind . So far , however , he had , as the reader will perceive , been ...
... least to show that discipline and instruction , though incapable of imparting intellect , create , never- theless , most of those distinctions existing among mankind . So far , however , he had , as the reader will perceive , been ...
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Seite 426 - It is indeed an opinion strangely prevailing amongst men, that houses, mountains, rivers, and in a word all sensible objects, have an existence, natural or real, distinct from their being perceived by the understanding.
Seite 204 - First, our senses, conversant about particular sensible objects, do convey into the 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...
Seite 205 - ... affecting our senses. This source of ideas every man has wholly in himself; and though it be not sense as having nothing to do with external objects, yet it is very like it, and might properly enough be called
Seite 240 - A dungeon horrible on all sides round, As one great furnace flamed ; yet from those flames No light ; but rather darkness visible, Served only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell...
Seite 97 - And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits, which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients. But it is not only the difficulty and...
Seite 241 - That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind is what everybody will allow. And to me it seems no less evident that the various sensations or ideas imprinted on the Sense, however blended or combined together (that is, whatever objects they compose), cannot exist otherwise than in a mind perceiving them. I think an intuitive knowledge may be obtained of this, by any one that shall attend to what is meant by the term exist when applied to sensible...
Seite 464 - I think, is a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing, in different times and places...
Seite 38 - Words, with their pronunciation, etymology, alternative spellings, and various meanings, illustrated by quotations and numerous woodcuts, there are several valuable appendices, comprising a Pronouncing Gazetteer of the World ; Vocabularies of Scripture, Greek, Latin, and English Proper Names ; a Dictionary of the noted Names of Fiction ; a Brief History of the English Language; a Dictionary of Foreign Quotations, Words, Phrases, Proverbs, &c. ; a Biographical Dictionary with 10,000 Names, &c.
Seite 206 - Let any one examine his own thoughts, and thoroughly search into his understanding, and then let him tell me, whether all the original ideas he has there, are any other than of the objects of his senses, or of the operations of his mind considered as objects of his reflection; and how great a mass of knowledge soever he imagines to be lodged there, he will, upon taking a strict view, see that he has not any idea in his mind but what one of these two have imprinted, though perhaps with infinite variety...
Seite 531 - Aside for ever: it may be a sound — A tone of music — summer's eve — or spring — A flower — the wind — the ocean — which shall wound, Striking the electric chain wherewith we are darkly bound...