... deserves the name of knowledge. If we persuade ourselves that our faculties act and inform us right concerning the existence of those objects that affect them, it cannot pass for an ill-grounded confidence: for I think nobody can, in earnest, be so... An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - Page 201by John Locke - 1805 - 510 pagesFull view - About this book
| Peter Alexander - Science - 1985 - 362 pages
...this kind is to see the object. Support for this occurs here, when Locke says 'For I think no body can, in earnest, be so sceptical, as to be uncertain...Existence of those Things which he sees and feels' (IV.xi.3). What we see and feel, in having ideas, are objects and their qualities; they appear in some... | |
| John Christian Laursen - Philosophy - 1992 - 272 pages
...opinion are stronger than divine and civil law in some respects (357). Locke's remark that "no body can, in earnest, be so sceptical, as to be uncertain...Existence of those Things which he sees and feels" (631) could have inspired Hume's similar remarks. But cus" It was not that Locke thought that the skeptical... | |
| Vere Claiborne Chappell - Philosophy - 1994 - 354 pages
...fits with what we noted at the outset, namely his concern with how we should live our lives: "no body can, in earnest, be so sceptical, as to be uncertain...Existence of those Things which he sees and feels" (E IV.xi.3: 631). Meeting the questions with sarcasm and impatience he concludes that "we certainly... | |
| Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka - Philosophy - 1994 - 328 pages
...things are, as it were, indirectly known. The other view is no less definite: [...JI think no body can, in earnest, be so sceptical, as to be uncertain...Existence of those Things which he sees and feels. (IV, xi, 3) [W]e cannot so far distrust their Testimony, as to doubt, that such Collections of simple... | |
| Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz - Mathematics - 1996 - 528 pages
...existence and of God's. §3. This certainty 'deserves the name of knowledge. . . . For I think no body can, in earnest, be so sceptical, as to be uncertain...sees and feels. At least, he that can doubt so far. . .will never have any controversy with me; since he can never be sure I say any thing contrary to... | |
| Nicholas Wolterstorff - Philosophy - 1996 - 276 pages
...for all of us and that we all accept the conclusion with a high level of confidence. "I think nobody can, in earnest, be so sceptical, as to be uncertain...existence of those things which he sees and feels" (iv,xi,3); "this is too evident to be doubted" (iv,xi,4); "it is an assurance that deserves the name... | |
| Dietmar Hermann Heidemann - Philosophy - 1998 - 284 pages
...Außenwelt, dennoch sieht Locke keinen Grund, an ihrer Existenz zu zweifeln: „... I think nobody can, in earnest, be so sceptical as to be uncertain...existence of those things which he sees and feels." Zudem, so wird versichert, garantiere uns Gott und das Vertrauen in unser sinnliches Vermögen ihr... | |
| Daniel Garber, Michael Ayers - Philosophy - 1998 - 992 pages
...mood, may pretend to doubt the existence of the things our senses disclose to us, but 'I think no body can, in earnest, be so sceptical, as to be uncertain...of the Existence of those Things which he sees and feels.'78 For the senses themselves immediately assure us of the existence of these things. This direct... | |
| Daniel Garber, Michael Ayers - Philosophy - 2003 - 676 pages
...Bennett 1971, pp. 68-70. 8 1 Ess. IV.ii.4,i4. 82 Ess. IV.ii.i4; IV.xi.3: 'He that can doubt so far ... will never have any controversy with me; since he can never be sure I say anything contrary to his own opinion'; also Ess. IV.xi.8. 83 Ess. IV.iv.4. 84 Ess. II.xxiii.28. On... | |
| Michael Ayers - Philosophy - 1999 - 68 pages
...that affect them, it cannot pass for an illgrounded confidence: for l think nobody can, in eamest, be so sceptical, as to be uncertain of the existence...any controversy with me; since he can never be sure l say anything contrary to his opinion. As to myself, l think COD has given me assurance enough of... | |
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