...know whether or not any simply material being thinks. We are unable to discover "whether Omnipotency has not given to some Systems of Matter fitly disposed,...Matter so disposed, a thinking immaterial Substance" (4.3.6; ed. Nidditch, pp. 540-41). Leibniz, reluctant to accept such an argument, supposed that Locke...

...'matter as matter' cannot think, it must be granted that the omnipotent God can, if he chooses, give 'to some Systems of Matter fitly disposed, a power to perceive and think'.136 The human mind may, therefore, be not an immaterial substance, but only 'a faculty of thought'...

...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,...more remote from our comprehension to conceive, that COD can, if he pleases, superadd to matter a faculty of thinking, than that he should superadd to it...

...any mere material being thinks or no; it being impossible for us.. .to discover whether omnipotency has not given to some systems of matter, fitly disposed, a power to perceive and think, or else joined or fixed to matter, so disposed, a thinking immaterial substance (Locke, cited in Vesey, 1965: 22)....

...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'. The reason, Locke claimed, is that 'in respect to our Motions', it is 'not much more remote from our...

...we cannot determine, with certainty, whether the mind is an immaterial substance or whether God has "given to some systems of matter, fitly disposed, a power to perceive and think."1 Berkeley took a definite position here, agreeing with Descartes, against Locke, both that...

...any 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". Locke's point was not that the soul was s" Locke,...

...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, or eise joined and fixed to matter, so disposed, a thinking immaterial substance: it being, in respect...

...correctly, to discover evidence confirming the wisdom, power, and goodness of God. §o: Locke's admission that 'God can, if he pleases, superadd to Matter a Faculty of Thinking'. § 17: Our limited understanding of the powers and operations of spirits. (See also IIL vi. 1a.) §...

...Be Moral Agents? [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," in contradistinction to having "joined and fixed to Matter so disposed, a thinking immaterial Substance...