An essay concerning human understanding. With the notes and illustr. of the author, and an analysis of his doctrine of ideas1849 |
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... necessary to examine our own abilities , and see what objects our understandings were or were not fitted to deal with . This I proposed to the company , who all readily assented ; and thereupon it was agreed , that this should be our ...
... necessary to examine our own abilities , and see what objects our understandings were or were not fitted to deal with . This I proposed to the company , who all readily assented ; and thereupon it was agreed , that this should be our ...
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... necessary to make what I have to say as easy and intelligible to all sorts of readers as I can . And I had much rather the speculative and quick - sighted should complain of my being in some parts tedious , than that any one , not ...
... necessary to make what I have to say as easy and intelligible to all sorts of readers as I can . And I had much rather the speculative and quick - sighted should complain of my being in some parts tedious , than that any one , not ...
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... necessary for the conveniences of life , and information of virtue ; " and has put within the reach of their discovery the comfortable provision for this life , and the way that leads to a better . How short soever their knowledge may ...
... necessary for the conveniences of life , and information of virtue ; " and has put within the reach of their discovery the comfortable provision for this life , and the way that leads to a better . How short soever their knowledge may ...
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... necessary concomitant of all innate truths : it seeming to me near a contradiction to say , that there are truths imprinted on the soul which it perceives or understands not ; imprinting , if it signify any thing , being nothing else ...
... necessary concomitant of all innate truths : it seeming to me near a contradiction to say , that there are truths imprinted on the soul which it perceives or understands not ; imprinting , if it signify any thing , being nothing else ...
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... necessary to discover principles that are supposed innate , when reason ( if we may believe them ) is nothing else but the faculty of deducing unknown truths from principles or propositions that are already known ? That certainly can ...
... necessary to discover principles that are supposed innate , when reason ( if we may believe them ) is nothing else but the faculty of deducing unknown truths from principles or propositions that are already known ? That certainly can ...
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Страница 432 - Godward: not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves ; but our sufficiency is of God ; who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
Страница 54 - ... 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 ; which we, being conscious of, and observing in ourselves, do from these receive into our...
Страница 2 - I can discover the powers thereof, how far they reach, to what things they are in any degree proportionate, and where they fail us, I suppose it may be of use to prevail with the busy mind of man to be more cautious in meddling with things exceeding its comprehension ; to stop when it is at the utmost extent of its tether; and to sit down in a quiet ignorance of those things which, upon examination, are found to be beyond the reach of our capacities.
Страница 54 - These two, I say, viz. external material things as the objects of sensation, and the operations of our own minds within as the objects of reflection, are, to me, the only originals from whence all our ideas take their beginnings.
Страница 10 - It is an established opinion among some men, that there are in the understanding certain innate principles ; some primary notions, xoiml ivmai, 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.
Страница 96 - I pretend not to teach, but to inquire, and therefore cannot but confess here again, that external and internal sensation are the only passages that I can find of knowledge to the understanding. These alone, as far as I can discover, are the windows by which light is let into this dark room...
Страница 513 - But God has not been so sparing to men to make them barely two-legged creatures, and left it to Aristotle to make them rational...
Страница 204 - I have said, not imagining how these simple ideas can subsist by themselves, we accustom ourselves to suppose some substratum wherein they do subsist, and from which they do result, which therefore we call substance.
Страница 3 - ... to take a survey of our own understandings, examine our own powers, and see to what things they were adapted. Till that was done I suspected we began at the wrong end, and in vain sought for satisfaction in a quiet and...
Страница 548 - For since the things the mind contemplates are none of them, besides itself, present to the understanding, it is necessary that something else, as a sign or representation of the thing it considers, should be present to it: and these are ideas.