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... 5. Not on the Mind naturally imprinted , because not known to Children , Idiots , & c . 6 , 7. That Men know them when they come to the Ufe of Reason , answered . 8. If Reafon difcovered them , that would not prove a 2 I.
... 5. Not on the Mind naturally imprinted , because not known to Children , Idiots , & c . 6 , 7. That Men know them when they come to the Ufe of Reason , answered . 8. If Reafon difcovered them , that would not prove a 2 I.
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... Reason , were the Time of their Difcovery , it would not prove them innate . 15 , 16. The Steps by which the Mind attains feveral Truths . 17. Affenting as foon as propofed and underflood , proves them not innate . 18. If fuch an Affent ...
... Reason , were the Time of their Difcovery , it would not prove them innate . 15 , 16. The Steps by which the Mind attains feveral Truths . 17. Affenting as foon as propofed and underflood , proves them not innate . 18. If fuch an Affent ...
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... reason , but be- cause they are not already common : But truth , like gold , is not the lefs fo for being newly brought out of the mine ; it is trial and examination must give it price , and not any antique fashion ; and though it be ...
... reason , but be- cause they are not already common : But truth , like gold , is not the lefs fo for being newly brought out of the mine ; it is trial and examination must give it price , and not any antique fashion ; and though it be ...
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... of his purfuit will reward his pains with fome delight , and he will have reason to think his time not ill fpent , even when he cannot much boaft of any great acquifition . This , Reader , is the entertainment of those who.
... of his purfuit will reward his pains with fome delight , and he will have reason to think his time not ill fpent , even when he cannot much boaft of any great acquifition . This , Reader , is the entertainment of those who.
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... reason , that he might justly have expected from his adverfary a public acknowledgment of his error , if he had not been one of those writers who have no more fhame than reafon in them . Mr. Locke was alfo obliged to Mr. Bolde , a ...
... reason , that he might justly have expected from his adverfary a public acknowledgment of his error , if he had not been one of those writers who have no more fhame than reafon in them . Mr. Locke was alfo obliged to Mr. Bolde , a ...
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Page 250 - ... harangues and popular addresses, they are certainly, in all discourses that pretend to inform or instruct, wholly to be avoided ; and, where truth and knowledge are concerned, cannot but be thought a great fault either of the language or person 'that makes use of them.
Page 264 - This is that which I think great readers are apt to be mistaken in. Those who have read of everything are thought to understand everything too; but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking makes what we read ours.
Page 47 - It is evident the mind knows not things immediately, but only by the intervention of the ideas it has of them. Our knowledge therefore is real only so far as there is a conformity between our ideas and the reality of things.
Page 140 - ... do not appear to me to have lost the faculty of reasoning ; but having joined together some ideas very wrongly, they mistake them for truths, and they err as men do that argue right from wrong principles.
Page 9 - It shall suffice to my present purpose to consider the discerning faculties of a man as they are employed about the objects which they have to do with...
Page 145 - When therefore we quit particulars, the generals that rest are only creatures of our own making, their general nature being nothing but the capacity they are put into by the understanding of signifying or representing many particulars. For the signification they have is nothing but a relation that by the mind of man is added to them.
Page 133 - That which thus captivates their reasons, and leads men of sincerity blindfold from common sense, will, when examined, be found to be what we are speaking of; some independent ideas, of no alliance to one another, 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.
Page 227 - So that the idea of liberty is the idea of a power in any agent to do or forbear any particular action, according to the determination or thought of the mind, whereby either of them is preferred to the other...
Page 18 - But whether there be anything more than barely that idea in our minds, whether we can thence certainly infer the existence of anything without us which corresponds to that idea, is that whereof some men think there may be a question made; because men may have such ideas in their minds when no such thing exists, no such object affects their senses.
Page 139 - If it may be doubted, whether beasts compound and enlarge their ideas that way, to any degree: this, I think, I may be positive in, that the power of abstracting is not at all in them; and that the having of general ideas, is that which puts a perfect distinction betwixt man and brutes; and is an excellency which the faculties of brutes do by no means attain to.