An Analytical Abridgment of Locke's Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingJ. M'Creery, 1808 - 307 страници |
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... difficult , may not perceive that he sometimes labours rather to ex- press himself than to impress the reader , and to compensate for the feebleness by the frequency of his efforts BOOK Of Words, or Language in general.
... difficult , may not perceive that he sometimes labours rather to ex- press himself than to impress the reader , and to compensate for the feebleness by the frequency of his efforts BOOK Of Words, or Language in general.
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... , substantial forms and occult qualities . He has shewn that the great obstacles to the investigation and com- * See note 2 at the end of the Preface . munication of Truth lye in the imperfections of Language and PREFACE . xi.
... , substantial forms and occult qualities . He has shewn that the great obstacles to the investigation and com- * See note 2 at the end of the Preface . munication of Truth lye in the imperfections of Language and PREFACE . xi.
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... Language . And lastly , in the application of his principles , he has directed us how to distinguish between Knowledge and Opinion , Certainty and Probability , Reason and Faith . In the hope of extending the benefits of so ex- cellent ...
... Language . And lastly , in the application of his principles , he has directed us how to distinguish between Knowledge and Opinion , Certainty and Probability , Reason and Faith . In the hope of extending the benefits of so ex- cellent ...
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... Language . The human mind , or the human Understanding , appears to be a grand and noble theme ; and all men , even the most insufficient , conceive that to be a proper object for their contemplation : whilst enquiries into the nature ...
... Language . The human mind , or the human Understanding , appears to be a grand and noble theme ; and all men , even the most insufficient , conceive that to be a proper object for their contemplation : whilst enquiries into the nature ...
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... Language , as distinct from Ideas , concerns only the force of words , and not the manner of their signification , to which the consideration of the mind only could never lead : that it would have made much difference in the Essay , if ...
... Language , as distinct from Ideas , concerns only the force of words , and not the manner of their signification , to which the consideration of the mind only could never lead : that it would have made much difference in the Essay , if ...
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Страница 6 - Our business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct. If we can find out those measures whereby a rational creature, put in that state in which man is in this world, may, and ought to govern his opinions, and actions depending thereon, we need not be troubled that some other things escape our knowledge.
Страница 53 - Thus the ideas, as well as children of our youth, often die" before us ; and our minds represent to us those tombs to which we are approaching ; where though the brass and marble remain, yet the inscriptions are effaced by time, and the imagery moulders away.
Страница 281 - Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal Father of light and fountain of all knowledge, communicates to mankind that portion of truth which he has laid within the reach of their natural faculties...
Страница 2 - Newton, with some others of that strain ; it is ambition enough to be employed as an under-labourer in clearing the ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish that lies in the way to knowledge...
Страница 50 - To which the acute and judicious proposer answers: "Not. For though he has obtained the experience of how a globe, how a cube, affects his touch, yet he has not yet attained the experience that what affects his touch so or so must affect his sight so or so...
Страница 56 - This is a way of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor and allusion,* wherein for the most part lies that entertainment and pleasantry of wit, which strikes so lively on the fancy, and therefore is so acceptable to all people, because its beauty appears at first sight, and there is required no labour of thought to examine what truth or reason there is in it.
Страница 150 - Words become general by being made the signs of general ideas; and ideas become general by separating from them the circumstances of time and place and any other ideas that may determine them to this or that particular existence.
Страница 301 - ZrifituaTiKii or the doctrine of signs, the most usual whereof being words, it is aptly enough termed also AoyiKfi, logic; the business whereof is to consider the nature of signs the mind makes use of for the understanding of things, or conveying its knowledge to others.
Страница 209 - Where there is no property there is no injustice," is a proposition as certain as any demonstration in Euclid: for the idea of property being a right to anything, and the idea to which the name "injustice" is given being the invasion or violation of that right, it is evident that these ideas, being thus established, and these names annexed to them, I can as certainly know this proposition to be true, as that a triangle has three angles equal to two right ones. Again: "No government allows absolute...
Страница 6 - The candle, that is set up in us, shines bright enough for all our purposes. The discoveries we can make with this, ought to satisfy us; and we shall then use our understandings right, when we entertain all objects in that way and proportion that they are suited to our faculties, and upon those grounds they are capable of being proposed to us ; and not peremptorily, or intemperately require demonstration, and demand certainty, where probability only is to be had, and which is sufficient to govern...