The Works of John Locke, Volume 2T. Tegg, 1823 |
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... necessary for communication . 2 , 3. Words are the sensible signs of his ideas who uses them . 4. Words often secretly referred , first , to the ideas in other men's minds . 5. Secondly , to the reality of things . 6. Words by use ...
... necessary for communication . 2 , 3. Words are the sensible signs of his ideas who uses them . 4. Words often secretly referred , first , to the ideas in other men's minds . 5. Secondly , to the reality of things . 6. Words by use ...
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... necessary to philosophy . 4. Misuse of words , the cause of great errors . 5. Obstinacy . 6. And wrangling . 7. Instance , bat and bird . 8. First remedy , to use no word without an idea . 9. Secondly , to have distinct ideas annexed to ...
... necessary to philosophy . 4. Misuse of words , the cause of great errors . 5. Obstinacy . 6. And wrangling . 7. Instance , bat and bird . 8. First remedy , to use no word without an idea . 9. Secondly , to have distinct ideas annexed to ...
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... necessary to be considered , if we will have true distinct notions of the several sorts of substances . § 8. Nor are we to wonder , that powers And why . make a great part of our complex ideas of substances ; since their secondary ...
... necessary to be considered , if we will have true distinct notions of the several sorts of substances . § 8. Nor are we to wonder , that powers And why . make a great part of our complex ideas of substances ; since their secondary ...
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... necessary to make up our complex idea of gold , as its colour and weight : which , if duly con- sidered , are also nothing but different powers . For to speak truly , yellowness is not actually in gold ; but is a power in gold to ...
... necessary to make up our complex idea of gold , as its colour and weight : which , if duly con- sidered , are also nothing but different powers . For to speak truly , yellowness is not actually in gold ; but is a power in gold to ...
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... necessary . A man , if he compares two things together , can hardly be supposed not to know what it is , wherein he compares them : so that when he compares any things together , he cannot but have a very clear idea of that relation ...
... necessary . A man , if he compares two things together , can hardly be supposed not to know what it is , wherein he compares them : so that when he compares any things together , he cannot but have a very clear idea of that relation ...
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Page 78 - Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die. And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain ; it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain. But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him ; and to every seed his own body.
Page 299 - For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts ; even one thing befalleth them : as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath ; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast : for all is vanity. All go unto one place ; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Page 351 - 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 74 - For we must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
Page 55 - I think, is a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing, in different times and places...
Page 158 - Conceptions; and to make them stand as marks for the Ideas within his own Mind, whereby they might be made known to others, and the Thoughts of Men's Minds be conveyed from one to another.
Page 159 - It may also lead us a little towards the original of all our notions and knowledge, if we remark how great a dependence our words have on common sensible ideas; and how those which are made use of to stand for actions and notions quite removed from sense, have their rise from thence, and from obvious sensible ideas are transferred to more abstruse significations, and made to stand for ideas that come not under the cognizance of our senses...
Page 1 - The mind being, as I have declared, furnished with a great number of the simple ideas, conveyed in by the senses as they are found in exterior things, or by reflection on its own operations, takes notice also that a certain number of these simple ideas go constantly together...
Page 323 - Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament ; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
Page 49 - FROM what has been said, it is easy to discover what is so much inquired after, the principium individuationis ; and that, it is plain, is existence itself, which determines a being of any sort to a particular time and place incommunicable to two beings of the same kind.