The Works of John Locke, Esq, Volume 1A. Churchill and sold, 1722 - Philosophy |
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Page 344
... Lordship from endeavouring to fet me right , as to fome Errors your Lordship apprehends in my Book ; when other Writers ufing fome Notions like mine , gave you that which was occafion enough for you to do me the Favour to take notice of ...
... Lordship from endeavouring to fet me right , as to fome Errors your Lordship apprehends in my Book ; when other Writers ufing fome Notions like mine , gave you that which was occafion enough for you to do me the Favour to take notice of ...
Page 348
... Lordship , as not being , I think , very material to the matter in hand . But as to the Idea of Subftance , what it is , and how we come by it , your Lordship fays , It is a Repugnancy to our Conceptions of Things , that Modes and ...
... Lordship , as not being , I think , very material to the matter in hand . But as to the Idea of Subftance , what it is , and how we come by it , your Lordship fays , It is a Repugnancy to our Conceptions of Things , that Modes and ...
Page 353
... Lordship to excufe this Conceit of mine , this Etymological Obfervation , efpecially fince it hath nothing in it against the Truth , nor against your Lordship's Idea of Subftance . But your Lordship oppofes to this Etymology , the use ...
... Lordship to excufe this Conceit of mine , this Etymological Obfervation , efpecially fince it hath nothing in it against the Truth , nor against your Lordship's Idea of Subftance . But your Lordship oppofes to this Etymology , the use ...
Page 354
... Lordship feems to me to acknowledg , that that internal Conftitution or Effence we cannot know ; for your Lordship fays , That from the Powers and Properties of Things which are knowable by us , we may know as much of the internal ...
... Lordship feems to me to acknowledg , that that internal Conftitution or Effence we cannot know ; for your Lordship fays , That from the Powers and Properties of Things which are knowable by us , we may know as much of the internal ...
Page 356
... Lordship , for the good Opinion you are pleas'd here to exprefs of the Au- thor of The Effay of Human Understanding , and that you do not impute to him the ill Ufe fome may have made of his Notions . But he craves leave to fay , That he ...
... Lordship , for the good Opinion you are pleas'd here to exprefs of the Au- thor of The Effay of Human Understanding , and that you do not impute to him the ill Ufe fome may have made of his Notions . But he craves leave to fay , That he ...
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Page 47 - Whatsoever the mind perceives in itself, or is the immediate object of perception, thought, or understanding, that I call idea; and the power to produce any idea in our mind, I call quality of the subject wherein that power is.
Page 111 - And if it were fit for such poor finite creatures as we are to pronounce what infinite wisdom and goodness could do, I think we might say that God himself cannot choose what is not good; the freedom of the Almighty hinders not his being determined by what is best.
Page i - As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.
Page 3 - ... which he will find in the following treatise. It being that term which, I think, serves best to stand for whatsoever is the object of the understanding when a man thinks: I have used it to express whatever is meant by phantasm, notion, species, or whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking; and I could not avoid frequently using it.
Page 186 - Of the complex ideas signified by the names man and horse, leaving out but those particulars wherein they differ, and retaining only those wherein they agree, and of those making a new distinct complex idea, and giving the name animal to it ; one has a more general term, that comprehends with man several other creatures. Leave out of the idea of animal, sense and spontaneous motion ; and the remaining complex idea, made up of the remaining simple ones of body, life, and nourishment, becomes a more...
Page 251 - We have the ideas of matter and thinking, but possibly shall never be able to know whether any mere material being thinks or no;* it being impossible for us, by the contemplation of our own ideas, without revelation, to discover whether Omnipotency has not given to some systems of matter fitly disposed, a power to perceive and think, or else joined and fixed to matter so disposed a thinking immaterial substance...
Page 39 - Understanding destroy those that are there : the dominion of man, in this little world of his own understanding, being much-what the same as it is in the great world of visible things, wherein his power, however managed by art and skill, reaches no farther than to compound and divide the materials that are made to his hand, but can do nothing towards the making the least particle of new matter or destroying one atom of what is already in being.
Page 52 - ... flat circle variously shadowed, with several degrees of light and brightness coming to our eyes. But we having by use been accustomed to perceive what kind of appearance convex bodies are wont to make in us, what alterations are made in the reflections of light by the difference of the sensible figures of bodies, the judgment presently, by an habitual custom, alters the appearances into their causes...
Page 57 - Pascal, that till the decay of his health had impaired his memory, he forgot nothing of what he had done, read, or thought) in any part of his rational age.
Page 45 - Power also is another of those simple ideas which we receive from sensation and reflection. For, observing in ourselves that we do and can think, and that we can at pleasure move several parts of our bodies which were at rest; the effects also that natural bodies are able to produce in one another occurring every moment to our senses, we both these ways get the idea of power.