An Abridgment of Mr. Locke's Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingRobert and Andrew Foulis, 1752 - 270 Seiten |
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... Certainty , and Extent of human know- ledge ; together with the grounds and degrees of Belief , Opinion , and Affent , which I fhall do in the following method . 3. First , I fhall enquire into the Original of thofe Ideas or notions ...
... Certainty , and Extent of human know- ledge ; together with the grounds and degrees of Belief , Opinion , and Affent , which I fhall do in the following method . 3. First , I fhall enquire into the Original of thofe Ideas or notions ...
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... proportion , that they are fuited to our faculties ; and upon thofe grounds they are capable of being propofed to us ; and not peremptorily or intemperately require " demonftration , and demand certainty , where proba-- bility only ( ( 09 )
... proportion , that they are fuited to our faculties ; and upon thofe grounds they are capable of being propofed to us ; and not peremptorily or intemperately require " demonftration , and demand certainty , where proba-- bility only ( ( 09 )
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John Wynne. demonftration , and demand certainty , where proba-- bility only is to be had , and which is fufficient to govern all our concernments . If we will disbelieve every thing , because we cannot certainly know all things ; we ...
John Wynne. demonftration , and demand certainty , where proba-- bility only is to be had , and which is fufficient to govern all our concernments . If we will disbelieve every thing , because we cannot certainly know all things ; we ...
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... : on this depends the e- vidence , and certainty of feveral even general pro . pofitions , which pafs for innate truths : whereas indeed they depend on this clear difcerning facul ty of the mind , whereby it perceives two ideas ( 35 )
... : on this depends the e- vidence , and certainty of feveral even general pro . pofitions , which pafs for innate truths : whereas indeed they depend on this clear difcerning facul ty of the mind , whereby it perceives two ideas ( 35 )
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... certainty in our difcourses about them . But to fuppose these names to stand for a thing , having the real Effence on which the pro- perties depend , is fo far from diminishing the im- : perfection of our words , that by a plain abuse ...
... certainty in our difcourses about them . But to fuppose these names to stand for a thing , having the real Effence on which the pro- perties depend , is fo far from diminishing the im- : perfection of our words , that by a plain abuse ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
abstract ideas actions Affent Affurance agreement or difagreement alfo alſo becauſe body cafes caufe cauſe Certainty Chap cife clear colour complex ideas confider confideration confifts connexion deas Demonftration diftinct ideas diſcover diſtinguiſh eafily elſe exift Exiſtence Extenfion faculties faid fame feems felf felves fenfation fenfes fenfible ferve feve feveral fhall fhew fignification figns fimple ideas fince firft firſt folidity fome fomething fometimes forts fpecies ftand fubftance fubject fuch fuppofe himſelf impoffible inftance intuitive Knowledge Knowledge leaſt ledge lefs meaſure mind mixed Modes moſt motion muft muſt names neceffary neral nominal Effence obferve occafion pain particular perceive Perception perfon pleaſure poffible pofition prefent produce Propofitions qualities Reafon real Effences Revelation Secondly ſelf Senfes ſeveral ſhall ſhould ſtand thefe themſelves ther theſe things Thirdly thofe ideas thoſe thoughts tion Truth underſtanding univerfal uſe whereby wherein whereof whofe words
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 57 - This power which the mind has thus to order the consideration of any idea, or the forbearing to consider it; or to prefer the motion of any part of the body to its rest, and vice versa, in any particular instance; is that which we call the will. The actual exercise of that power, by directing any particular action, or its forbearance, is that which we call volition or willing.
Seite 102 - ... continue in the same steps they have been used to, which by often treading are worn into a smooth path, and the motion in it becomes easy, and as it were natural.
Seite 204 - I mean there is such a knowledge within our reach which we cannot miss, if we will but apply our minds to that, as we do to several other .inquiries.
Seite 160 - By which it is plain, that every step in reasoning that produces knowledge has intuitive certainty ; which when the mind perceives, there is no more required, but to remember it to make the agreement or disagreement of the ideas, concerning which we inquire, visible and certain. So that to...
Seite 102 - As far as we can comprehend thinking, thus ideas seem to be produced in our minds; or if they are not, this may serve to explain their following one another in an habitual train when once they are put into that track, as well as it does to explain such motions of the body.
Seite 58 - All the actions that we have any idea of, reducing themselves, as has been said, to these two, viz. thinking and motion, so far as a man has a power to think or not to think, to move or not to move, according to the preference or direction of his own mind, so far is a man free.
Seite 247 - Whatever God hath revealed is certainly true : no doubt can be made of it. This is the proper object of faith ; but whether it be a divine revelation or no, reason must judge...
Seite 202 - If therefore we know there is some real being, and that non-entity cannot produce any real being, it is an evident demonstration, that from eternity there has been something; since what was not from eternity, had a beginning; and what had a beginning, must be produced by something else.
Seite 104 - ... are by education, custom, and the constant din of their party, so coupled in their minds, that they always appear there together; and they can no more separate them in their thoughts, than if they were but one idea, and they operate as if they were so.
Seite 24 - ... no more the likeness of something existing without us, than the names that stand for them are the likeness of our ideas, which yet upon hearing they are apt to excite in us.