An essay concerning human understanding. To which are now added, i. Analysis of mr. Locke's doctrine of ideas [&c., incl. some] extr. from the author's works, Volume 11817 |
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... Opinion concerning Personal Identity , with an Appendix . III . A Treatise on the Conduct of the Understanding . IV . Some Thoughts concerning Reading and Study for a Gentleman . V. Elements of Natural Philosophy . VI . A New Method of ...
... Opinion concerning Personal Identity , with an Appendix . III . A Treatise on the Conduct of the Understanding . IV . Some Thoughts concerning Reading and Study for a Gentleman . V. Elements of Natural Philosophy . VI . A New Method of ...
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... opinions are always sus- pected , and usually opposed , without any other reason , but because they are not already com- mon . But truth , like gold , is not the less so for being newly brought out of the mine . It is trial and ...
... opinions are always sus- pected , and usually opposed , without any other reason , but because they are not already com- mon . But truth , like gold , is not the less so for being newly brought out of the mine . It is trial and ...
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... opinions , sets his own thoughts on work , to find and follow truth , will ( what- ever he lights on ) not miss the ... opinion I have of it , but thy own . If thou findest little in it new or instructive to thee , thou art not to blame ...
... opinions , sets his own thoughts on work , to find and follow truth , will ( what- ever he lights on ) not miss the ... opinion I have of it , but thy own . If thou findest little in it new or instructive to thee , thou art not to blame ...
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... opinion of my own , than oppose that of another , when truth appears against it . For it is truth alone I seek , and that will always be welcome to me , when or from whence soever it comes . But what forwardness soever I have to resign ...
... opinion of my own , than oppose that of another , when truth appears against it . For it is truth alone I seek , and that will always be welcome to me , when or from whence soever it comes . But what forwardness soever I have to resign ...
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... opinion of innate principles . 25. Conclusion . CHAP . I. Of ideas in general . SECT . 1. Idea is the object of thinking . 2. All ideas come from sen- sation or reflection . 3. The objects of sensation one source of ideas . 4. The ...
... opinion of innate principles . 25. Conclusion . CHAP . I. Of ideas in general . SECT . 1. Idea is the object of thinking . 2. All ideas come from sen- sation or reflection . 3. The objects of sensation one source of ideas . 4. The ...
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Page 136 - For. wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas. and putting those together with quickness and variety wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity. thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy: judgment. on the contrary. lies quite on the other side. in separating carefully one from another ideas wherein can be found the least difference. thereby to avoid being misled by similitude and by affinity to take one thing for another.
Page 372 - Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report ; if there be any virtue, if there be any praise, think on these things.
Page 351 - 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 77 - Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from EXPERIENCE; in that all our knowledge is founded, and from that it ultimately derives itself.
Page 78 - First, Our senses, conversant about particular sensible objects, do convey into the mind several distinct perceptions of things, according to those various ways wherein those objects do affect them: and thus we come by those ideas we have, of Yellow, White, Heat, Cold, Soft, Hard, Bitter, Sweet, and all those which we call sensible qualities; which when I say the senses convey into the mind, I mean, they from external objects convey into the mind what produces there those perceptions.
Page 331 - 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 435 - 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 130 - 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. The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colours ; and if not sometimes refreshed, vanish and disappear.
Page 338 - Self is that conscious thinking thing, whatever substance made up of (whether spiritual or material, simple or compounded, it matters not), which is sensible or conscious of pleasure and pain, capable of happiness or misery, and so is concerned for itself, as far as that consciousness extends.
Page 112 - Secondly, such qualities which in truth are nothing in the objects themselves but powers to produce various sensations in us by their primary qualities, ie by the bulk, figure, texture, and motion of their insensible parts, as colours, sounds, tastes, &c.