An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Volume 2Cummings & Hilliard and J. T. Buckingham, 1813 - Knowledge, Theory of |
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... universal propo- fitions concerning substances , is to be known . 7 Because co - existence of ideas in few cafes to be known . 3 , Inftance in gold . 10 As far as any fuch co - exiftence can be known , fo far universal ... propositions . 4 ...
... universal propo- fitions concerning substances , is to be known . 7 Because co - existence of ideas in few cafes to be known . 3 , Inftance in gold . 10 As far as any fuch co - exiftence can be known , fo far universal ... propositions . 4 ...
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... universal propositions , and would settle in their minds universal truths , and consider the consequences that follow from them . § 19. And next to them simple modes . By the same rule , the names of simple modes are , next to those of ...
... universal propositions , and would settle in their minds universal truths , and consider the consequences that follow from them . § 19. And next to them simple modes . By the same rule , the names of simple modes are , next to those of ...
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... universal propositions we are capable of being certain of their real truth or falsehood . I shall begin with general propositions , as those which most employ our thoughts , and exercise our contemplation . General truths are most ...
... universal propositions we are capable of being certain of their real truth or falsehood . I shall begin with general propositions , as those which most employ our thoughts , and exercise our contemplation . General truths are most ...
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... universal propositions . §3 . Certainty two - fold , of truth and of knowledge . BUT that we may not be misled in this case , by that which is the danger every where , I mean by the doubtfulness of terms , it is ... Universal Propositions ,
... universal propositions . §3 . Certainty two - fold , of truth and of knowledge . BUT that we may not be misled in this case , by that which is the danger every where , I mean by the doubtfulness of terms , it is ... Universal Propositions ,
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... universal propositions concerning sub- stances is to be known . On the other side , the names of substances , when made use of , as they should be , for the ideas men have in their minds , though they carry a ... Universal Propositions ,
... universal propositions concerning sub- stances is to be known . On the other side , the names of substances , when made use of , as they should be , for the ideas men have in their minds , though they carry a ... Universal Propositions ,
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Page 71 - This part of knowledge is irresistible, and, like bright sunshine, forces itself immediately to be perceived as soon as ever the mind turns its view that way; and leaves no room for hesitation, doubt, or examination, but the mind is presently filled with the clear light of it.
Page 125 - 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 249 - 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 301 - Nobody is made any thing by hearing of rules, or laying them up in his memory ; practice must settle the habit of doing without reflecting on the rule : and you may as well hope to make a good painter or musician extempore by a lecture and instruction in the arts of music and painting, as a coherent thinker, or strict reasoner, by a set of rules, shewing him wherein right reasoning consists.
Page 126 - Is it true of the idea of a triangle, that its three angles are equal to two right ones ? It is true also of a triangle, wherever it really exists.
Page 270 - The consideration, then, of ideas and words, as the great instruments of knowledge, makes no despicable part of their contemplation who would take a view of human knowledge in the whole extent of it. And perhaps if they were distinctly weighed, and duly considered, they would afford us another sort of logic and critic,* than what we have been hitherto acquainted with.
Page 248 - ... themselves that they are so. How a man may know whether he be so in earnest, is worth inquiry : and I think there is this one unerring mark of it, viz., the not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.
Page 178 - God. —Thus from the consideration of ourselves, and what we infallibly find in our own constitutions, our reason leads us to the knowledge of this certain and evident truth, that there is an eternal, most powerful, and most knowing Being ; which whether any one will please to call " God," it matters not. The thing is evident; and from this idea duly considered, will easily be deduced all those other attributes which we ought to ascribe to this Eternal Being.
Page 392 - Heat is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts of the object, which produces in us that sensation, from whence we denominate the object hot ; so what in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion.
Page 45 - But yet if we would speak of things as they are, we must allow that all the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness, all the artificial and figurative application of words eloquence hath invented, are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgment, and so indeed are perfect cheats...