An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Tom 2J. Johnson, 1805 - 510 |
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... depend mostly on external , remote , and un- perceived causes . 13. Judgment may reach far . ther , but that is not knowledge . 14. What is requisite for our knowledge of substances . 15. Whilst our ideas of sub- stances contain not ...
... depend mostly on external , remote , and un- perceived causes . 13. Judgment may reach far . ther , but that is not knowledge . 14. What is requisite for our knowledge of substances . 15. Whilst our ideas of sub- stances contain not ...
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... depend . 11. What use these general maxims have . 12. Maxims , if care be not taken in the use of words , may prove contradictions . 13. Instance in vacuum . 14. They prove not the exist . ence of things without us . 15. Their ...
... depend . 11. What use these general maxims have . 12. Maxims , if care be not taken in the use of words , may prove contradictions . 13. Instance in vacuum . 14. They prove not the exist . ence of things without us . 15. Their ...
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... depend mostly on the fineness and niceties of words , it is no wonder if the wit of man , so employed , should perplex , involve , and subtilize the signification of sounds , so as never to want something to say , in op- posing or ...
... depend mostly on the fineness and niceties of words , it is no wonder if the wit of man , so employed , should perplex , involve , and subtilize the signification of sounds , so as never to want something to say , in op- posing or ...
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... depend . Which is so far from diminishing the imperfection of our words , that by a plain abuse it adds to it when we would make them stand for some- thing , which not being in our complex idea , the name we use can no ways be the sign ...
... depend . Which is so far from diminishing the imperfection of our words , that by a plain abuse it adds to it when we would make them stand for some- thing , which not being in our complex idea , the name we use can no ways be the sign ...
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... depend , is past doubt : but I think it has been proved , that this makes not the distinction of species , as we rank them ; nor the boun- daries of their names . Secondly , this tacitly also insinuates , as if we had ideas of these ...
... depend , is past doubt : but I think it has been proved , that this makes not the distinction of species , as we rank them ; nor the boun- daries of their names . Secondly , this tacitly also insinuates , as if we had ideas of these ...
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Strona 273 - 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: revelation is natural reason enlarged by a new set of discoveries communicated by God immediately, which reason vouches the truth of, by the testimony and proofs it gives, that they come from God.
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Strona 103 - 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 not given to some systems of matter, fitly disposed, a power to perceive and think...
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Strona 102 - 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.
Strona 41 - But yet if we would speak of things as they are, we must allow that all the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness, all the artificial and figurative application of words eloquence hath invented, are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgment, and so indeed are perfect cheats...
Strona 112 - ... the sciences capable of demonstration; wherein I doubt not but from self-evident propositions, by necessary consequences as incontestable as those in mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out to any one that will apply himself with the same indifferency and attention to the one as he does to the other of these sciences.
Strona 201 - ... deserves the name of knowledge. If we persuade ourselves that our faculties act and inform us right concerning the existence of those objects that affect them, it cannot pass for an ill-grounded confidence: for I think nobody can, in earnest, be so sceptical as to be uncertain of the existence of those things which he sees and feels.
Strona 438 - Heat is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts of the object, which produces in us that sensation, from whence we denominate the object hot ; so what in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing b,ut motion.