An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: With Thoughts on the Conduct of Understanding ; Collated with Desmaizeaux's Ed. To which is Prefixed the Life of the AuthorMundell & Son, 1801 - 308 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 83
Page xii
... Some think they have a pofitive Idea of Eternity , and not Space . 21. Suppofed pofitive Ideas of Infinity , Caufe of Miftakes . 22. All these Ideas from Senfation and Reflection . CHAP . XVIII . Of other Simple Modes . SECT . 1 , 2 ...
... Some think they have a pofitive Idea of Eternity , and not Space . 21. Suppofed pofitive Ideas of Infinity , Caufe of Miftakes . 22. All these Ideas from Senfation and Reflection . CHAP . XVIII . Of other Simple Modes . SECT . 1 , 2 ...
Page xviii
... some few , to whom your Lordship has been pleased not whol- ly to conceal them . This alone were a fufficient reason , were there no other , why I fhould dedicate this Effay to your Lordship ; and its having fome little correfpond- ence ...
... some few , to whom your Lordship has been pleased not whol- ly to conceal them . This alone were a fufficient reason , were there no other , why I fhould dedicate this Effay to your Lordship ; and its having fome little correfpond- ence ...
Page xxii
... be our first inquiry . Some hafty and undigested thoughts , on a fubject I had never before confidered , which I fet down against our next meeting , gave the first entrance into this discourse xxii The Epifle to the Reader .
... be our first inquiry . Some hafty and undigested thoughts , on a fubject I had never before confidered , which I fet down against our next meeting , gave the first entrance into this discourse xxii The Epifle to the Reader .
Page xxiii
... some repetitions ; but to confefs the truth , I am now too lazy , or too busy to make it shorter . I am not ignorant how little I herein confult my own reputation when I knowingly let it go with a fault , fo apt to disgust the moft ...
... some repetitions ; but to confefs the truth , I am now too lazy , or too busy to make it shorter . I am not ignorant how little I herein confult my own reputation when I knowingly let it go with a fault , fo apt to disgust the moft ...
Page xxiv
... Some objects had need be turned on every fide ; and when the notion is new , as I confess some of those are to me , or out of the ordinary road , as I fufpect they will appear to others , it is not one fimple view of it that will gain ...
... Some objects had need be turned on every fide ; and when the notion is new , as I confess some of those are to me , or out of the ordinary road , as I fufpect they will appear to others , it is not one fimple view of it that will gain ...
Contents
7 | |
8 | |
9 | |
10 | |
16 | |
17 | |
19 | |
22 | |
23 | |
29 | |
39 | |
68 | |
87 | |
97 | |
120 | |
126 | |
134 | |
2 | |
3 | |
4 | |
5 | |
6 | |
7 | |
8 | |
9 | |
10 | |
14 | |
16 | |
18 | |
20 | |
21 | |
23 | |
26 | |
27 | |
29 | |
32 | |
33 | |
34 | |
89 | |
90 | |
91 | |
92 | |
93 | |
96 | |
132 | |
138 | |
147 | |
210 | |
227 | |
i | |
5 | |
6 | |
7 | |
8 | |
9 | |
10 | |
11 | |
12 | |
14 | |
15 | |
18 | |
59 | |
63 | |
64 | |
65 | |
73 | |
78 | |
81 | |
83 | |
92 | |
94 | |
95 | |
96 | |
97 | |
101 | |
102 | |
103 | |
104 | |
107 | |
113 | |
119 | |
132 | |
139 | |
145 | |
181 | |
182 | |
183 | |
184 | |
185 | |
186 | |
187 | |
188 | |
189 | |
191 | |
214 | |
217 | |
218 | |
219 | |
220 | |
222 | |
223 | |
227 | |
Other editions - View all
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: With Thoughts on the Conduct of ... John Locke No preview available - 2015 |
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: With Thoughts On the Conduct of ... John Locke No preview available - 2022 |
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: With Thoughts on the Conduct of ... John Locke No preview available - 2019 |
Common terms and phrases
abſtract actions affent alfo anfwer becauſe body cafe caufe cauſe colour complex ideas confider confideration confifts conftant conftantly confufed defire difcourfe difcover diftance diftinct ideas diftinguished duration elfe exift exiſtence extenfion faculties faid falfe fame farther feems felf fenfation fenfes fenfible feparate ferve feveral fhall fhould fhow fignify figns fimple ideas fince firft fleep folid fome fomething foul fpace fpeak fpecies fpirit ftand fubftances fubject fuch fuppofed happineſs hath himſelf impoffible impreffions infinite infinity inftances itſelf knowledge leaft leaſt lefs liberty meaſure mind mixed modes moft moſt motion muft muſt names nature neceffary obfcure obferve occafion ourſelves pafs pain perceive perfon pleaſes pleaſure poffible pofitive idea prefent propofitions qualities reafon real effence reflection reft ſeveral ſpace ſtand ſubſtances ſuch thefe themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe thoughts tion truth ufually underſtanding uneafinefs univerfal uſe whereby wherein whereof whilft words
Popular passages
Page xi - For if we will reflect on our own ways of thinking, we shall find that sometimes the mind perceives the agreement or disagreement of two ideas immediately by themselves, without the intervention of any other: and this, I think, we may call 'intuitive knowledge.
Page 64 - 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 97 - ... some motion must be thence continued by our nerves or animal spirits, by some parts of our bodies, to the brain or the seat of sensation, there to produce in our minds the particular ideas we have of them.
Page 190 - ... a new set of discoveries communicated by God immediately; which reason vouches the truth of, by the testimony and proofs it gives that they come from God. So that he that takes away reason to make way for revelation, puts out the light of both, and does muchwhat the same as if he would persuade a man to put out his eyes, the better to receive the remote light of an invisible star by a telescope.
Page 8 - From all which it is evident, that the extent of our knowledge comes not only short of the reality of things, but even of the extent of our own ideas.
Page 64 - ... got; which operations, when the soul comes to reflect on and consider, do furnish the understanding with another set of ideas which could not be had from things without; and such are perception, thinking, doubting, believing, reasoning...
Page 80 - 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.
Page 237 - ... 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 177 - I think it may not be amiss to take notice, that, however faith be opposed to reason, faith is nothing but a firm assent of the mind ; which, if it be regulated, as is our duty, cannot be afforded to any thing but upon good reason, and so cannot be opposite to it. He that believes without having any reason for believing, may be in love with his own fancies ; but neither seeks truth as he ought, nor pays the obedience due to his Maker...