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... collections of simple ideas united in complex names . Power being the source whence all action pro- ceeds , the substances wherein these powers are , when putting them in action , are called causes ; and the substances thereby produced ...
... collections of simple ideas united in complex names . Power being the source whence all action pro- ceeds , the substances wherein these powers are , when putting them in action , are called causes ; and the substances thereby produced ...
Page 110
... or one simplé idea , is often sufficient to give me the notion of a relation ; but an accurate collection of sundry ideas is necessary to the knowing of any substantial be ing , CHAP . XXVI . OF CAUSE AND EFFECT AND OTHER 110.
... or one simplé idea , is often sufficient to give me the notion of a relation ; but an accurate collection of sundry ideas is necessary to the knowing of any substantial be ing , CHAP . XXVI . OF CAUSE AND EFFECT AND OTHER 110.
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... collection of several simple ideas ; that the action may conform to the rule , it is only necessary that the simple ideas belonging to it should correspond to those which the law requires . If we examine the particulars of the complex ...
... collection of several simple ideas ; that the action may conform to the rule , it is only necessary that the simple ideas belonging to it should correspond to those which the law requires . If we examine the particulars of the complex ...
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... collections of simple ideas con- stantly observed to exist together ; but such a com- plex idea cannot be the real essence of any substance ; for then the properties we discover in the body would depend on that complex idea and be ...
... collections of simple ideas con- stantly observed to exist together ; but such a com- plex idea cannot be the real essence of any substance ; for then the properties we discover in the body would depend on that complex idea and be ...
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... collection of all its properties . Whoever first met with a lump of gold could not rationally suppose that its bulk and figure depend on its essence ; these then did not go into his idea of that species of body ; its peculiar weight and ...
... collection of all its properties . Whoever first met with a lump of gold could not rationally suppose that its bulk and figure depend on its essence ; these then did not go into his idea of that species of body ; its peculiar weight and ...
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Page 6 - 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 in which man is 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 53 - Thus the ideas, as well as children of our youth, often die" before us ; and our minds represent to us those tombs to which we are approaching ; where though the brass and marble remain, yet the inscriptions are effaced by time, and the imagery moulders away.
Page 281 - Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal Father of light and fountain of all knowledge, communicates to mankind that portion of truth which he has laid within the reach of their natural faculties...
Page 2 - Newton, with some others of that strain ; it is ambition enough to be employed as an under-labourer in clearing the ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish that lies in the way to knowledge...
Page 50 - To which the acute and judicious proposer answers: "Not. For though he has obtained the experience of how a globe, how a cube, affects his touch, yet he has not yet attained the experience that what affects his touch so or so must affect his sight so or so...
Page 56 - This is a way of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor and allusion,* wherein for the most part lies that entertainment and pleasantry of wit, which strikes so lively on the fancy, and therefore is so acceptable to all people, because its beauty appears at first sight, and there is required no labour of thought to examine what truth or reason there is in it.
Page 150 - Words become general by being made the signs of general ideas; and ideas become general by separating from them the circumstances of time and place and any other ideas that may determine them to this or that particular existence.
Page 301 - ZrifituaTiKii or the doctrine of signs, the most usual whereof being words, it is aptly enough termed also AoyiKfi, logic; the business whereof is to consider the nature of signs the mind makes use of for the understanding of things, or conveying its knowledge to others.
Page 209 - Where there is no property there is no injustice," is a proposition as certain as any demonstration in Euclid: for the idea of property being a right to anything, and the idea to which the name "injustice" is given being the invasion or violation of that right, it is evident that these ideas, being thus established, and these names annexed to them, I can as certainly know this proposition to be true, as that a triangle has three angles equal to two right ones. Again: "No government allows absolute...
Page 6 - The candle, that is set up in us, shines bright enough for all our purposes. The discoveries we can make with this, ought to satisfy us; and we shall then use our understandings right, when we entertain all objects in that way and proportion that they are suited to our faculties, and upon those grounds they are capable of being proposed to us ; and not peremptorily, or intemperately require demonstration, and demand certainty, where probability only is to be had, and which is sufficient to govern...