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... REFLECTION · 3 37 25 37 64 92 121 144 148 151 158 159 • 160 VII . OF SIMPLE IDEAS OF BOTH SENSATION and Reflection VIII . SOME FURTHER CONSIDERATIONS CONCERNING OUR SIMPLE IDEAS OF SENSATION • IX . OF PERCEPTION x . OF RETENTION . XI ...
... REFLECTION · 3 37 25 37 64 92 121 144 148 151 158 159 • 160 VII . OF SIMPLE IDEAS OF BOTH SENSATION and Reflection VIII . SOME FURTHER CONSIDERATIONS CONCERNING OUR SIMPLE IDEAS OF SENSATION • IX . OF PERCEPTION x . OF RETENTION . XI ...
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... reflections ' addressed by Leibniz to Mr. Burnet of Kermnay , in Aberdeenshire , in 1697. They anticipate some of the objections of the Nouveaux Essais , a work which was in preparation when Locke died , but was held back till 1765 ...
... reflections ' addressed by Leibniz to Mr. Burnet of Kermnay , in Aberdeenshire , in 1697. They anticipate some of the objections of the Nouveaux Essais , a work which was in preparation when Locke died , but was held back till 1765 ...
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... reflection- elaborated in ways , it may be , in which they are never actually found in their original manifestation . They are in that case abstracted from the original experience ; they are not given directly as manifestations of ...
... reflection- elaborated in ways , it may be , in which they are never actually found in their original manifestation . They are in that case abstracted from the original experience ; they are not given directly as manifestations of ...
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... reflection , how comes it about that we have some complex ideas that refuse to be treated as arbitrary inventions of our under- standing , but that , when they rise into consciousness , seem to be revelations of a higher understanding ...
... reflection , how comes it about that we have some complex ideas that refuse to be treated as arbitrary inventions of our under- standing , but that , when they rise into consciousness , seem to be revelations of a higher understanding ...
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... reflection upon our own mental operations . Locke's treatment of these ideas is characteristic of his point of view , which is apt to keep out of sight ultimate necessities of reason . or the Take our idea of the Immensity within which ...
... reflection upon our own mental operations . Locke's treatment of these ideas is characteristic of his point of view , which is apt to keep out of sight ultimate necessities of reason . or the Take our idea of the Immensity within which ...
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Page 377 - Who will render to every man according to his deeds: To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life : But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil...
Page 29 - It is of great use to the sailor, to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean. It is well he knows, that it is long enough to reach the bottom, at such places as are necessary to direct his voyage, and caution him against running upon shoals that may ruin him. Our business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct.
Page liv - Our business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct. If we can find out those measures whereby a rational creature, put in that state which man is in in this world, may and ought to govern his opinions and actions depending thereon, we need not be troubled that some other things escape our knowledge.
Page 122 - I would be understood to mean that notice which the mind takes of its own operations, and the manner of them; by reason whereof there come to be ideas of these operations in the understanding-.
Page 143 - When the understanding is once stored with these simple ideas, it has the power to repeat, compare, and unite them, even to an almost infinite variety, and so can make at pleasure new complex ideas. But it is not in the power of the most exalted wit, or enlarged understanding, by any quickness or variety of thought, to invent or frame one new simple idea in the mind, not taken in by the ways before mentioned: nor can any force of the understanding destroy those that are there.
Page 529 - The ideas of -goblins and sprites have really no more to do with darkness than light : yet let but a foolish maid inculcate these often on the mind of a child, and raise them there together, possibly he shall never be able to separate them again so long as he lives ; but darkness shall ever afterwards bring with it those frightful ideas, and they shall be so joined, that he can no more bear the one than the other.
Page 26 - If by this inquiry into the nature of the understanding, 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 tilings which, upon examination, are found to be beyond the reach of our capacities.
Page 167 - Qualities thus considered in bodies are, first such as are utterly inseparable from the body, in what estate soever it be; such as in all the alterations and changes it suffers, all the force can be used upon it, it constantly keeps; and such as sense constantly finds in every particle of matter, which has bulk enough to be perceived, and the mind finds inseparable from every particle of matter, though less than to make itself singly be perceived by our senses.
Page 239 - In short, the practically cognized present is no knife-edge, but a saddle-back, with a certain breadth of its own on which we sit perched, and from which we look in two directions into time. The unit of composition of our perception of time is a duration, with a bow and a stern, as it were - a rearward- and a forward-looking end.
Page 121 - This source of ideas every man has wholly in himself : and though it be not sense, as having nothing to do with external objects, yet it is very like it, and might properly enough be called internal sense.