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
| Joseph Marie comte de Maistre - 1993 - 458 страници
...impossible for us ... without revelation to discover whether Omnipolency has not given to some system of matter fitly disposed, a power to perceive and think, or else joined and fixed to matter fitly disposed a thinking immaterial substance.61 So you see, gentlemen, that all this is only an English... | |
| Robert Merrihew Adams - 1998 - 446 страници
...was by arguing that we are not in a position to know "without revelation . . . whether Omnipotency has not given to some Systems of Matter fitly disposed, a power to perceive and think," as opposed to having "joined and fixed to Matter so disposed, a thinking immaterial Substance" (Essay... | |
| Michael Hunter - 2003 - 256 страници
...unwilling to rule out. It is impossible for us ... without revelation, to discover, whether Omnipotency has not given to some Systems of Matter fitly disposed, a power to perceive and think . . . : It being . . . not much more remote from our Comprehension to conceive, that GOD can, if he... | |
| John Marshall - 1994 - 514 страници
...material being thought, or not. It was not possible to discover without revelation whether God had given to some systems of matter 'fitly disposed, a power to perceive', or joined to matter 'a thinking immaterial Substance'. Men were 'very far' from knowing what their... | |
| Dennis Todd - 1995 - 364 страници
...fully the properties of matter or mind and to explain the relationship between the two, had speculated "that God can, if he pleases, superadd to matter a faculty of thinking." 40 The orthodox exploded in anger at his conjecture, especially since it was being appropriated by... | |
| Dennis Todd - 1995 - 366 страници
...fully the properties of matter or mind and to explain the relationship between the two, had speculated "that God can, if he pleases, superadd to matter a faculty of thinking."40 The orthodox exploded in anger at his conjecture, especially since it was being appropriated... | |
| Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz - 1996 - 528 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,...conceive, that God can, if he pleases, superadd to [our idea of]1 matter a faculty of thinking, than that he should superadd to it another substance,... | |
| Jerome J. McGann - 1998 - 238 страници
...traditional spiritualist view either: for we can't know whether 'Omnipotency has not given to some system of matter, fitly disposed, a power to perceive and...matter, so disposed, a thinking immaterial substance' (1965: 4.3.6). We can't know this because of human reason's inherent limits. These limits are not a... | |
| Tad Schmaltz - 1996 - 320 страници
...Locke's notorious suggestion in his Essay concerning Human Understanding (1690) that we cannot deny that "God can, if he pleases, superadd to Matter a Faculty of Thinking [since] we know not wherein Thinking consists, nor to what sort of Substances the Almighty has been... | |
| Peter A. Morton - 1996 - 522 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, a power to perceive and think. Mind-body interaction Locke adds another point that raises a difficult question for dualists like Descartes.... | |
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