An essay concerning human understanding. Also, extr. from the author's works, i. Analysis of mr. Locke's doctrine of ideas [&c.].for D. McVean, 1819 |
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... Wherein lies the general certainty of propositions . SECT . CHAP . VII . Of maxims . 1. They are self - evident . 2. Wherein that self - evi- dence consists . 3. Self - evidence not pecu- liar to received axioms . 4. First . as to ...
... Wherein lies the general certainty of propositions . SECT . CHAP . VII . Of maxims . 1. They are self - evident . 2. Wherein that self - evi- dence consists . 3. Self - evidence not pecu- liar to received axioms . 4. First . as to ...
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... Wherein reasoning consists . 3. Its four parts . 4. Syllogism , not the great in- strument of reason . 5. Helps little in demonstration , less in probability . 6. Serves not to increase our knowledge , but fence with it . 7. Other helps ...
... Wherein reasoning consists . 3. Its four parts . 4. Syllogism , not the great in- strument of reason . 5. Helps little in demonstration , less in probability . 6. Serves not to increase our knowledge , but fence with it . 7. Other helps ...
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... wherein consists the right use and perfection of language . § . 3. Communication by words civil or philosophical . Secondly , as to communication of words , that too has double use . I. Civil . II . Philosophical . First , by their ...
... wherein consists the right use and perfection of language . § . 3. Communication by words civil or philosophical . Secondly , as to communication of words , that too has double use . I. Civil . II . Philosophical . First , by their ...
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... wherein the names of mixed modes are ordinarily learned , does not a little contribute to the doubt- fulness of their signification . For if we will observe how children learn languages , we shall find that to make them understand what ...
... wherein the names of mixed modes are ordinarily learned , does not a little contribute to the doubt- fulness of their signification . For if we will observe how children learn languages , we shall find that to make them understand what ...
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... wherein no one can show a reason why some of the inseparable qualities , that are always unit- ed in nature , should be put into the nominal essence , and others left out or why the word gold , signifying that sort of body the ring on ...
... wherein no one can show a reason why some of the inseparable qualities , that are always unit- ed in nature , should be put into the nominal essence , and others left out or why the word gold , signifying that sort of body the ring on ...
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Strona 239 - But God has not been so sparing to men to make them barely two-legged creatures, and left it to Aristotle to make them rational...
Strona 78 - This part of knowledge is irresistible, and like bright sunshine forces itself immediately to be perceived, as soon as ever the mind turns its view that way; and leaves no room for hesitation, doubt, or examination, but the mind is presently filled with the clear light of it.
Strona 321 - Just so it is in the mind; would you have a man reason well, you must use him to it betimes, exercise his mind in observing the connection of ideas and following them in train. Nothing does this better than mathematics, which therefore I think should be taught all those who have the time and opportunity, not so much to make them mathematicians as to make them reasonable creatures...
Strona 286 - The consideration, then, of ideas and words as the great instruments of knowledge, makes no despicable part of their contemplation who would take a view of human knowledge in the whole extent of it. And perhaps, if they were distinctly weighed and duly considered, they would afford us another sort of logic and critic than what we have been hitherto acquainted with.
Strona 263 - I think there is one unerring mark of it, viz. the not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance, than the proofs it is built upon will warrant. Whoever goes beyond this measure of assent, it is plain, receives not truth in the love of it; loves not truth for truth's sake, but for some other by-end.
Strona 236 - THE word reason in the English language has different significations: sometimes it is taken for true ami clear principles; sometimes for clear and fair deductions from those principles ; and sometimes for the cause, and particularly the final cause. But the consideration I shall have of it here, is in a signification different from all these: and that is, as it stands for a faculty in man, that faculty whereby man is supposed to be distinguished from beasts, and wherein it is evident he much surpasses...
Strona 89 - God can, if He pleases, superadd to matter a faculty of thinking, than that He should superadd to it another substance with a faculty of thinking...