An Abridgment of Mr. Locke's Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingRobert and Andrew Foulis, 1752 - 270 Seiten |
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... experience and observation . Let us then fuppofe the mind to be , as we say white paper , void of all characters , without , any ideas : how comesit to be furnished ? whence has it all the materials of reafon and knowledge ? to this I ...
... experience and observation . Let us then fuppofe the mind to be , as we say white paper , void of all characters , without , any ideas : how comesit to be furnished ? whence has it all the materials of reafon and knowledge ? to this I ...
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... experience informs us . I would be glad to learn from those men , who fo confidently pronounce , that the human foul al- ways thinks , how they come to know it : nay , how they come to know that they themselves think , when they ...
... experience informs us . I would be glad to learn from those men , who fo confidently pronounce , that the human foul al- ways thinks , how they come to know it : nay , how they come to know that they themselves think , when they ...
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... experience does , yet it may ferve to give us due fentiments of the wisdom and goodness of the fovereign difpofer of all things , which is not unfuitable to the main end of these enquiries : the knowledge and veneration of him being the ...
... experience does , yet it may ferve to give us due fentiments of the wisdom and goodness of the fovereign difpofer of all things , which is not unfuitable to the main end of these enquiries : the knowledge and veneration of him being the ...
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... of the simple ideas of those senses : but they being fuch as generally we have no names for , cannot be fet down in writing , but must be left to the thoughts and experience of the reader . C - HA P. XIX . Of the Modes of E 3 ( 53 )
... of the simple ideas of those senses : but they being fuch as generally we have no names for , cannot be fet down in writing , but must be left to the thoughts and experience of the reader . C - HA P. XIX . Of the Modes of E 3 ( 53 )
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... is rather a Paffion than an Action in it . The idea of the beginning of Mo- tion we have only by reflection on what passes in our felves ; where we find by experience that bare- ly by willing it , we can move the parts ( 58 )
... is rather a Paffion than an Action in it . The idea of the beginning of Mo- tion we have only by reflection on what passes in our felves ; where we find by experience that bare- ly by willing it , we can move the parts ( 58 )
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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
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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.