 We have the ideas of matter and thinking, but possibly shall never be able to know whether any mere material being thinks or no; it being impossible for us, by the contemplation of our own ideas, without revelation, to discover whether Omnipotency has...  An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - Страница 103по John Locke - 1805 - 510 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison - 1917 - 456 страници
...ii, p. 128. * Locke, it is perhaps worth remembering, left it an open question ' whether Omnipotency has not given to some systems of matter, fitly disposed,...matter, so disposed, a thinking immaterial substance ' ; and he was of opinion that ' all the great ends of morality and religion are well enough secured,... | |
 | John Laird - 1917 - 406 страници
...inference is possible. It is unnecessary to suppose that a distinct immaterial substance exists at all, ' it being, in respect of our notions, not much more...pleases, superadd to matter a faculty of thinking, 1 Essay, Book II. chap. SUM. § 15. (. Book IV. chap. iii. § 6 ; cf. ibid. chap. ix. § 3. than that... | |
 | Raymond Gregory - 1919 - 114 страници
...impossible for us, by the contemplation of our ideas without revelation, to discover, whether omnipotency has not given to some systems of matter, fitly disposed,...thinking immaterial substance; it being, in respect to our notions, not much more remote from our comprehension to conceive, that God can, if he pleases,... | |
 | William Drayton Lewis - 1925 - 156 страници
...system of natter, fitly disposed, a power to perceive ani think, or else joined and fixed to natter so disposed, a thinking immaterial substance, it being, in respect of our notions, not much гаовэ remote from our comprehension to conceive that God can, if he pleases, superad to matter... | |
 | Friedrich Ueberweg - 1924 - 848 страници
...habe (Ess. IV, 3, 6: it being in respect of our notions, not much more remote f rom our comprehensiou to conceive that God can, if he pleases, superadd to matter a faculty of thinking, t hau that he should superadd to it anothtr substance with a faculty of thinking), ein Zugeständnis,... | |
 | 1858 - 912 страници
...for us, by the contemplation 01 our own ideas, without revelation, to discover whether Onmipotency has not given to some systems of matter fitly disposed a power to perceive and think ; it being, in respect of our notions, not much more remote from our comprehension to conceive that... | |
 | Joseph Needham, Ling Wang - 1956 - 746 страници
...Locke that there was nothing contradictory or scandalous about the suggestion that God might have ' given to some systems of matter, fitly disposed, a power to perceive and think' (Essay concerning Human Understanding (1687), IV, iii, 6). d An important paper on him by Hou Wai-Lu... | |
 | Alan Holland - 1985 - 364 страници
...interpretation, notoriously, is that Locke was seriously prepared to consider the possibility that God might give "to some systems of matter fitly disposed, a power to perceive and think". 11 Here two questions arise. The first is whether the possibility we are concerned with is purely epistemic,... | |
 | Leo Strauss - 1988 - 324 страници
..."impossible for us, by the contemplation of our own ideas without revelation, to discover whether Omnipotency has not given to some systems of matter, fitly disposed, a power to perceive and think. . . . What certainty of knowledge can any one have that some perceptions, such as, vg, pleasure and... | |
 | Michael Ayers - 1993 - 708 страници
...for us, by the contemplation of our own Ideas, without revelation, to discover, whether Omnipotency has not given to some Systems of Matter fitly disposed,...Matter so disposed, a thinking immaterial Substance. What this proposal boils down to may not immediately be clear, but some have taken Locke to have been... | |
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