An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Volumen 2J. Johnson, 1805 - 510 páginas |
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... moral ideas thought in- capable of demonstration . Their complexedness and want of sensible represen . tations . 20 ... moral . 8. Existence not required to make it real . 9. Nor will it be lefs true , or certain , because moral ideas ...
... moral ideas thought in- capable of demonstration . Their complexedness and want of sensible represen . tations . 20 ... moral . 8. Existence not required to make it real . 9. Nor will it be lefs true , or certain , because moral ideas ...
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... Moral and metaphysical truth . CHAP . VI . " Of universal propositions , their truth and certainty . SECT . 1. Treating of words , neces- sary to knowledge . 2. General truths hardly to be understood , but in ver- bal propositions . 3 ...
... Moral and metaphysical truth . CHAP . VI . " Of universal propositions , their truth and certainty . SECT . 1. Treating of words , neces- sary to knowledge . 2. General truths hardly to be understood , but in ver- bal propositions . 3 ...
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... procure us con- venience , not science . 11. We are fitted for moral knowledge , and natural improvements . 12. But must beware of hypo- theses and wrong princi- ples . 13. The 13. The true use of hypothe- ses . 14. Clear The CONTENTS .
... procure us con- venience , not science . 11. We are fitted for moral knowledge , and natural improvements . 12. But must beware of hypo- theses and wrong princi- ples . 13. The 13. The true use of hypothe- ses . 14. Clear The CONTENTS .
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... moral words , have seldom , in two different men , the same precise signifi- cation ; since one man's complex idea seldom agrees with another's , and often differs from his own , from that which he had yesterday , or will have to ...
... moral words , have seldom , in two different men , the same precise signifi- cation ; since one man's complex idea seldom agrees with another's , and often differs from his own , from that which he had yesterday , or will have to ...
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... moral words , the sounds are usually learned first ; and then to know what complex ideas they stand for , they are either beholden to the explica- tion of others , or ( which happens for the most part ) are left to their own observation ...
... moral words , the sounds are usually learned first ; and then to know what complex ideas they stand for , they are either beholden to the explica- tion of others , or ( which happens for the most part ) are left to their own observation ...
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Página 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.
Página 339 - I have mentioned mathematics as a way to settle in the mind a habit of reasoning closely and in train; not that I think it necessary that all men should be deep mathematicians, but that having got the way of reasoning, which that study necessarily brings the mind to, they might be able to transfer it to other parts of knowledge as they shall have occasion.30 For in all sorts of reasoning every single argument should be managed as a mathematical demonstration; the connection and dependence of ideas...
Página 163 - For example, does it not require some pains and skill to form the general idea of a triangle, (which is yet none of the most abstract, comprehensive, and difficult,) for it must be neither oblique, nor rectangle, neither equilateral, equicrural, nor scalenon; but all and none of these at once.
Página 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...
Página 356 - Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge ; it is thinking makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections ; unless we chew thorn over again, they will not give us strength and nourishment.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.