An essay concerning human understanding. Also, extr. from the author's works, i. Analysis of mr. Locke's doctrine of ideas [&c.].for D. McVean, 1819 |
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... , 17. Assenting as soon as pro- posed and understood proves them not innate . 18. If such an assent be a mark of innate , then that one and two are equal to three ; that sweetness is not bitterness ; and a thousand the like ,
... , 17. Assenting as soon as pro- posed and understood proves them not innate . 18. If such an assent be a mark of innate , then that one and two are equal to three ; that sweetness is not bitterness ; and a thousand the like ,
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... equal to two , & c . not general , nor useful , answered . 21. These maxims not being known sometimes till proposed , proves them not innate . 22. Implicitly known before proposing , signifi - s , that the mind is capable of ...
... equal to two , & c . not general , nor useful , answered . 21. These maxims not being known sometimes till proposed , proves them not innate . 22. Implicitly known before proposing , signifi - s , that the mind is capable of ...
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... equal peri- ods . 19. The revolutions of the sun and moon , the pro- perest measures of time . 20. But not by their motion , but periodical appear- ances . 21. No two parts of duration can be certainly known to be equal . 22. Time not ...
... equal peri- ods . 19. The revolutions of the sun and moon , the pro- perest measures of time . 20. But not by their motion , but periodical appear- ances . 21. No two parts of duration can be certainly known to be equal . 22. Time not ...
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... equal to thirty - seven , by the same self - evidence , that he knows one and two to be equal to three : yet a child knows this not so soon as the other ; not for want of the use of reason , but because the ideas the words eighteen ...
... equal to thirty - seven , by the same self - evidence , that he knows one and two to be equal to three : yet a child knows this not so soon as the other ; not for want of the use of reason , but because the ideas the words eighteen ...
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... equal to three ; that two and two are equal to four ; and a multitude of other the like propositions in numbers that every body assents to at first hearing and understanding the terms , must have a place amongst these innate axioms ...
... equal to three ; that two and two are equal to four ; and a multitude of other the like propositions in numbers that every body assents to at first hearing and understanding the terms , must have a place amongst these innate axioms ...
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Page 354 - For we must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
Page 159 - ... 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 45 - It is an established opinion amongst some men, that there are in the understanding certain innate principles; some primary notions, Koival (.wouu, characters, as it were stamped upon the mind of man, which the soul receives in its very first being, and brings into the world with it.
Page 165 - ... 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 of a...
Page 418 - ... trains of motion in the animal spirits, which once set agoing continue in the same steps they have been used to, which by often treading are worn into a smooth path, and the motion in it becomes easy, and as it were natural.
Page 139 - I think it is easy to draw this observation, that the ideas of primary qualities of bodies are resemblances of them, and their patterns do really exist in the bodies themselves; but the ideas produced in us by these secondary qualities have no resemblance of them at all.
Page 137 - First, such as are utterly inseparable from the body, in what estate soever it be : such as, in all the alterations and changes it suffers, all the force can be used upon it, it constantly keeps; and such as sense constantly finds in every particle of matter which has bulk enough to be perceived, and the mind finds inseparable from every particle of matter, though less than to make itself singly be perceived by our senses...
Page 136 - Whatsoever the mind perceives in itself, or is the immediate object of perception, thought, or understanding, that I call idea; and the power to produce any idea in our mind, I call quality of the subject wherein that power is.
Page 296 - An obscure and relative idea of substance in general being thus made, we come to have the ideas of particular sorts of substances, by collecting such combinations of simple ideas as are, by experience and observation of men's senses, taken notice of to exist together, and are therefore supposed to flow from the particular internal constitution or unknown essence of that substance.
Page 352 - 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.