 ... the sciences capable of demonstration; wherein I doubt not but from self-evident propositions, by necessary consequences as incontestable as those in mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out to any one that will apply himself...  An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - Page 112by John Locke - 1805 - 510 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Vernor Smith, Marjorie Grene - Philosophy - 1956 - 488 pages
...in mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out to any one that will apply himself with the same indifferency and attention to the one,...well as those of number and extension; and I cannot see why they should not also be capable of demonstration, if due methods were thought on to examine... | |
 | John W. Yolton - Philosophy - 1977 - 364 pages
...mathematicks, the measures of right and wrong might be made out to any one that will apply himself with the same indifferency and attention to the one,...well as those of number and extension: and I cannot see why they should not also be capable of demonstration, if due methods were thought on to examine... | |
 | Reinhard Brandt - Philosophy - 1981 - 248 pages
...in mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out to anyone that will apply himself with the same indifferency and attention to the one as he does to the other of these sciences.17 It is worth underlining the fact that a central feature of Locke's ethics was the belief... | |
 | Hadley Arkes - Philosophy - 1986 - 448 pages
...in mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out to anyone that will apply himself with the same indifferency and attention to the one as he does to the other of these sciences."2 Our most influential pamphleteer, Thomas Paine, had no embarrassment in offering a "Dissertation... | |
 | Morton White - Philosophy - 1989 - 286 pages
...Mathematicks, the measures of right and wrong might be made out, to any one that will apply himself with the same Indifferency and Attention to the one, as he does to the other of these Sciences."5 Notice that Locke says that merely by duly considering and pursuing two ideas, we may proceed... | |
 | Joseph James Chambliss - Education - 1987 - 198 pages
...in mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out to anyone that will apply himself with the same indifferency and attention to the one as he does to the other of these sciences.10 While admitting that the ideas on which a demonstrative science of morality would be based... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - Medical - 1990 - 512 pages
...Mathematicks, the measures of right and wrong might be made out, to any one that will apply himself with the same Indifferency and Attention to the one, as he does to the other of these Sciences." 27. Locke, Essay, II xxviii 7, p. 352. 28. Locke, Essay, II xxviii 6, p. 351. 29. Locke, Essay, II... | |
 | David Daiches Raphael - Philosophy - 1991 - 440 pages
...mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out, to any one that will apply himself with the same indifferency and attention to the one,...well as those of number and extension: and I cannot see, why they should not also be capable of demonstration, if due methods were thought on to examine,... | |
 | James Conniff - Political Science - 1994 - 384 pages
...in mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out, to anyone that will apply himself with the same indifferency and attention to the one as he does to the other of these sciences." 16 To be sure, these principles might not apply in the external world. That is a matter for actual... | |
 | Veronica Kelly, Dorothea von Mücke - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 364 pages
...Mathematicks, the measures of right and wrong might be made out, to any one that will apply himself with the same Indifferency and Attention to the one, as he does to the other of these Sciences. (Essay, IV,iii, 18) Although Locke characteristically avoids intricate technical language in this passage,... | |
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