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Page 14
... begin with the fpeculative , and inftance in thofe mag- nified principles of demonftration ; " what- foever is , is ; " and , " it is impoffible for the fame thing to be , and not to be ; " which , of all others , I think have the most ...
... begin with the fpeculative , and inftance in thofe mag- nified principles of demonftration ; " what- foever is , is ; " and , " it is impoffible for the fame thing to be , and not to be ; " which , of all others , I think have the most ...
Page 29
... begin to think , and their words and actions do affure us that they do fo . When therefore they are capable of thought , of knowledge , of affent , can it rationally be fuppofed , they can be ignorant of thofe notions that nature has ...
... begin to think , and their words and actions do affure us that they do fo . When therefore they are capable of thought , of knowledge , of affent , can it rationally be fuppofed , they can be ignorant of thofe notions that nature has ...
Page 69
... begin to have fome time or other ; and then they will alfo begin to affent to that propofition , and make very little question of it ever after . But fuch an affent upon hearing no more proves the ideas to be innate , than it does that ...
... begin to have fome time or other ; and then they will alfo begin to affent to that propofition , and make very little question of it ever after . But fuch an affent upon hearing no more proves the ideas to be innate , than it does that ...
Page 81
... begin- ning of a man's ideas is the fame as to inquire after the beginning of his foul . For by this account foul and its ideas , as body and its extenfion , will begin to exift both at the fame time . § . 10. But whether the foul be ...
... begin- ning of a man's ideas is the fame as to inquire after the beginning of his foul . For by this account foul and its ideas , as body and its extenfion , will begin to exift both at the fame time . § . 10. But whether the foul be ...
Page 138
... begin by degrees to learn the ufe of figns . " And when they have got the kill to apply the organs of fpeech to the framing of articulate founds , they begin to make ufe of words , to fignify their ideas to others , Thefe verbal figns ...
... begin by degrees to learn the ufe of figns . " And when they have got the kill to apply the organs of fpeech to the framing of articulate founds , they begin to make ufe of words , to fignify their ideas to others , Thefe verbal figns ...
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