An essay concerning human understanding. With the notes and illustr. of the author, and an analysis of his doctrine of ideas1849 |
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... equal to thirty - seven , by the same self - evidence that he knows one and two to be equal to three ; yet a child knows this not so soon as the other ; not for want of the use of reason , but because the ideas the words eighteen ...
... equal to thirty - seven , by the same self - evidence that he knows one and two to be equal to three ; yet a child knows this not so soon as the other ; not for want of the use of reason , but because the ideas the words eighteen ...
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... equal to three , " that " two and two are equal to four , " and a multitude of other the like propositions in num- bers that every body assents to at first hearing and understanding the terms , must have a place amongst these innate ...
... equal to three , " that " two and two are equal to four , " and a multitude of other the like propositions in num- bers that every body assents to at first hearing and understanding the terms , must have a place amongst these innate ...
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... equal to two , & c . , not general nor useful , answered . If it be said , that these propositions , viz . " Two and two are equal to four , " " Red is not blue , " & c . , are not general maxims , nor of any great use ; I answer , That ...
... equal to two , & c . , not general nor useful , answered . If it be said , that these propositions , viz . " Two and two are equal to four , " " Red is not blue , " & c . , are not general maxims , nor of any great use ; I answer , That ...
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... equal to two right ones , because it is not so evident as , " The whole is bigger than a part , " nor so apt to be assented to at first hearing . It may suffice , that these moral rules are capable of demonstration ; and therefore it is ...
... equal to two right ones , because it is not so evident as , " The whole is bigger than a part , " nor so apt to be assented to at first hearing . It may suffice , that these moral rules are capable of demonstration ; and therefore it is ...
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... equal . There was never any rational creature , that set himself sincerely to examine the truth of these propositions , that could fail to assent to them ; though yet it be past doubt that there are many men , who , having not applied ...
... equal . There was never any rational creature , that set himself sincerely to examine the truth of these propositions , that could fail to assent to them ; though yet it be past doubt that there are many men , who , having not applied ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
abstract ideas action agreement or disagreement amongst aqua regia assent Bishop of Worcester body capable cerning certainty clear and distinct colour complex idea conceive concerning connexion consider desire determined discourse distinct ideas distinguish doubt duration eternal evident existence extension faculties farther give gold happiness hath idea of infinite idea of substance imagine immaterial infinity innate ideas innate principles inquiry intuitive knowledge knowledge liberty lordship maxims men's mind mixed modes motion names nature necessary never nominal essence objects observe operations pain particular perceive perception perhaps pleasure positive idea primary qualities produce propositions real essence reason receive relation sensation or reflection senses sensible qualities signification signify simple ideas soever solid sort soul space speak species spirit stand substratum suppose syllogism taken notice things thoughts tion true truth understanding uneasiness universal propositions whereby wherein whereof whilst words
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Seite 432 - Godward: not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves ; but our sufficiency is of God ; 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 54 - ... the perception of the operations of our own minds within us, as it is employed about the ideas it has 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, knowing, willing, and all the different actings of our own minds ; which we, being conscious of, and observing in ourselves, do from these receive into our...
Seite 2 - I can discover the powers thereof, how far they reach, to what things they are in any degree proportionate, and where they fail us, I suppose it may be of use to prevail with the busy mind of man to be more cautious in meddling with things exceeding its comprehension ; to stop when it is at the utmost extent of its tether; and to sit down in a quiet ignorance of those things which, upon examination, are found to be beyond the reach of our capacities.
Seite 54 - These two, I say, viz. external material things as the objects of sensation, and the operations of our own minds within as the objects of reflection, are, to me, the only originals from whence all our ideas take their beginnings.
Seite 10 - It is an established opinion among some men, that there are in the understanding certain innate principles ; some primary notions, xoiml ivmai, characters, as it were, stamped upon the mind of man, which the soul receives in its very first being, and brings into the world with it.
Seite 96 - I pretend not to teach, but to inquire, and therefore cannot but confess here again, that external and internal sensation are the only passages that I can find of knowledge to the understanding. These alone, as far as I can discover, are the windows by which light is let into this dark room...
Seite 513 - But God has not been so sparing to men to make them barely two-legged creatures, and left it to Aristotle to make them rational...
Seite 204 - I have said, not imagining how these simple ideas can subsist by themselves, we accustom ourselves to suppose some substratum wherein they do subsist, and from which they do result, which therefore we call substance.
Seite 3 - ... to take a survey of our own understandings, examine our own powers, and see to what things they were adapted. Till that was done I suspected we began at the wrong end, and in vain sought for satisfaction in a quiet and...
Seite 548 - For since the things the mind contemplates are none of them, besides itself, present to the understanding, it is necessary that something else, as a sign or representation of the thing it considers, should be present to it: and these are ideas.