An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Volumen 2J. Johnson, 1805 - 510 páginas |
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... question , whether any liquor passed through the filaments of the nerves . The debate having been ma- naged a good while , by variety of arguments on both sides , I ( who had been used to suspect , that the greatest part of disputes was ...
... question , whether any liquor passed through the filaments of the nerves . The debate having been ma- naged a good while , by variety of arguments on both sides , I ( who had been used to suspect , that the greatest part of disputes was ...
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... question ; the victory being ad- judged not to him who had truth on his side , but the last word in the dispute .. subtilty . § . 8. This , though a very useless skill , Calling it and that which I think the direct opposite to the ways ...
... question ; the victory being ad- judged not to him who had truth on his side , but the last word in the dispute .. subtilty . § . 8. This , though a very useless skill , Calling it and that which I think the direct opposite to the ways ...
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... question is not , whether that particular thing agree to his complex idea , expressed by the name man : but whether it has in it the real essence of a species of things , which he supposes his name man to stand for . In which way of ...
... question is not , whether that particular thing agree to his complex idea , expressed by the name man : but whether it has in it the real essence of a species of things , which he supposes his name man to stand for . In which way of ...
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... question , whether a plant , that lies ready formed in the seed , have life : whether the embryo in an egg before incubation , or a man in a swoon without sense or motion , be alive or no ; it is easy to perceive that a clear distinct ...
... question , whether a plant , that lies ready formed in the seed , have life : whether the embryo in an egg before incubation , or a man in a swoon without sense or motion , be alive or no ; it is easy to perceive that a clear distinct ...
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... question ; whether a bat be another thing than indeed it is , or have other quali- ties than indeed it has , for that would be extremely ab- surd to doubt of : but the question is , 1. Either between those that acknowledged themselves ...
... question ; whether a bat be another thing than indeed it is , or have other quali- ties than indeed it has , for that would be extremely ab- surd to doubt of : but the question is , 1. Either between those that acknowledged themselves ...
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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.