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... universal propositions , their truth and certainty , 529 . 7 Of maxims , 540 . 8 Of trifling propositions , 556 . 9 of our knowledge of existence , 564 . 10 of the knowledge of the existence of a God , 565 . CHAP . 11 Of the knowledge ...
... universal propositions , their truth and certainty , 529 . 7 Of maxims , 540 . 8 Of trifling propositions , 556 . 9 of our knowledge of existence , 564 . 10 of the knowledge of the existence of a God , 565 . CHAP . 11 Of the knowledge ...
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... universal knowledge , to raise questions , and perplex ourselves and others with disputes about things , to which our understandings are not suited ; and of which we cannot frame in our minds any clear or distinct perceptions , or ...
... universal knowledge , to raise questions , and perplex ourselves and others with disputes about things , to which our understandings are not suited ; and of which we cannot frame in our minds any clear or distinct perceptions , or ...
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... universal or perfect comprehension of whatsoever is , it yet secures their great concernments , that they have light enough to lead them to the knowledge of their maker , and the sight of their own duties . Men may find matter ...
... universal or perfect comprehension of whatsoever is , it yet secures their great concernments , that they have light enough to lead them to the knowledge of their maker , and the sight of their own duties . Men may find matter ...
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... Universal consent proves nothing innate . This argument , drawn from universal consent , has this misfortune in it , that if it were true in matter of fact , that there were certain truths , wherein all mankind agreed , it would not ...
... Universal consent proves nothing innate . This argument , drawn from universal consent , has this misfortune in it , that if it were true in matter of fact , that there were certain truths , wherein all mankind agreed , it would not ...
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... universal assent which is made the mark of them , amounts to no more but this ; that by the use of reason , we are capable to come to a certain knowledge of , and assent to , them ; and by this means there will be no difference between ...
... universal assent which is made the mark of them , amounts to no more but this ; that by the use of reason , we are capable to come to a certain knowledge of , and assent to , them ; and by this means there will be no difference between ...
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Page 286 - 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 63 - ... the perception of the operations of our own minds within us, as it is employed about the ideas it has 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, knowing, willing, and all the different actings of our own minds...
Page 277 - And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
Page 63 - ... 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. This great source of most of the ideas we have, depending wholly upon our senses,...
Page 496 - As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.
Page 545 - ... neither oblique nor rectangle, neither equilateral, equicrural, nor scalenon, but all and none of these at once? In effect, it is something imperfect that cannot exist, an idea wherein some parts of several different and inconsistent ideas are put together.
Page 4 - For I thought that the first step towards satisfying several inquiries, the mind of man was very apt to run into, was, to take a survey of our own understandings, examine our own powers, and see to what things they were adapted.
Page x - Newton, with some others of that strain ; it is ambition enough to be employed as an under-labourer in clearing the ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish that lies in the way to knowledge...
Page 113 - I can discover, are the windows by which light is let into this dark room; for methinks the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly shut from light, with only some little openings left to let in external visible resemblances, or ideas of things without: would the pictures coming into such a dark room but stay there, and lie so orderly as to be found upon occasion, it would very much resemble the understanding...
Page 94 - First, the bulk, figure, number, situation, and motion or rest of their solid parts. Those are in them, whether we perceive them or no; and when they are of that size that we can discover them, we have by these an idea of the thing as it is in itself, as is plain in artificial things. These I call primary qualities. Secondly, the power that is in any body, by reason of its insensible primary qualities, to operate after a peculiar manner on any of our senses, and thereby produce in us the different...