A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human KnowledgeJ. B. Lippincott & Company, 1874 - 424 pages |
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... tion in America . The king was greatly interested in the ' pious work . ' Sir Robert Walpole promised twenty thousand pounds for the endowment of the college . Fraser : Life and Letters , 62 , 63 . 2 Fraser Preface to Dialogues . Works ...
... tion in America . The king was greatly interested in the ' pious work . ' Sir Robert Walpole promised twenty thousand pounds for the endowment of the college . Fraser : Life and Letters , 62 , 63 . 2 Fraser Preface to Dialogues . Works ...
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... tion of distinguished scholars ; edited , translated ( when the works are not German ) , with annotations and biographical notices , by J. H. von Kirchmann , the twelfth volume is Berkeley's Princi- ples of Human Knowledge . ' The ...
... tion of distinguished scholars ; edited , translated ( when the works are not German ) , with annotations and biographical notices , by J. H. von Kirchmann , the twelfth volume is Berkeley's Princi- ples of Human Knowledge . ' The ...
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... tion , for there being no necessary connection of real existence with any idea a man has in his memory , nor of any other existence but that of God , with the existence of any particular man , no particular man can know the existence of ...
... tion , for there being no necessary connection of real existence with any idea a man has in his memory , nor of any other existence but that of God , with the existence of any particular man , no particular man can know the existence of ...
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... tion that the ideal of the material world is in God . As he does not see how a material world can exist without this ideal , or be distinct from it , he infers that what we call the material world and consider as such , is the divine ...
... tion that the ideal of the material world is in God . As he does not see how a material world can exist without this ideal , or be distinct from it , he infers that what we call the material world and consider as such , is the divine ...
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... tion . So also the notions great and little , swift and slow , or notions of numbers , are only relative notions , pure mental ab- stractions . But were it granted that corporeal substance exists , we cannot have cognizance of it either ...
... tion . So also the notions great and little , swift and slow , or notions of numbers , are only relative notions , pure mental ab- stractions . But were it granted that corporeal substance exists , we cannot have cognizance of it either ...
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Page 128 - His handiwork. Day unto day uttereth speech: And night unto night showeth knowledge. There is no speech nor language: Where their voice is not heard.
Page 182 - For example, does it not require some pains and skill to form the general idea of a triangle (which is yet none of the most abstract, comprehensive, and difficult)! for it must be neither oblique nor rectangle, neither equilateral, equicrural, nor scalenon; but all and none of these at once.
Page 194 - By which words I do not denote any one of my ideas, but a thing entirely distinct from them, wherein they exist or, which is the same thing, whereby they are perceived — for the existence of an idea consists in being perceived.
Page 193 - It is evident to anyone who takes a survey of the objects of human knowledge that they are either ideas actually imprinted on the senses, or else such as are perceived by attending to the passions and operations of the mind, or lastly, ideas formed by help of memory and imagination— either compounding, dividing, or barely representing those originally perceived in the aforesaid ways.
Page 208 - We perceive a continual succession of ideas, some are anew excited, others are changed or totally disappear. There is therefore some cause of these ideas, whereon they depend, and which produces and changes them.
Page 293 - Since all things that exist are only particulars, how come we by general terms?' His answer is, 'Words become general by being made the signs of general ideas' (Essay on Human Understanding, b.
Page 178 - Likewise the idea of man that I frame to myself must be either of a white, or a black, or a tawny, a straight, or a crooked, a tall, or a low, or a middle-sized man.
Page 278 - Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth, seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The Lord is his name: that strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.
Page 210 - When in broad daylight I open my eyes, it is not in my power to choose whether I shall see or no, or to determine what particular objects shall present themselves to my view; and so likewise as to the hearing and other senses, the ideas imprinted on them are not creatures of my will. There is therefore some other Will or Spirit that produces them.
Page 195 - ... exist when applied to sensible things. | The table I write on I say exists, that is, I see and feel it; | and if...