An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Volumen 2J. Johnson, W. J. and J. Richardson, W. Otridge and Son, F. C. and J. Rivington, D. Ogilvy and Son, Leigh and Sotheby, T. Payne, [and 11 others], and J. Mawman, 1805 - 510 páginas |
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... signification . 5. Causes of their imperfec- 8 tion . 6. The names of mixed modes doubtful : first , because the ideas they stand for , are so complex . 7. Secondly , because they have no standards . 8. Propriety not a sufficient remedy ...
... signification . 5. Causes of their imperfec- 8 tion . 6. The names of mixed modes doubtful : first , because the ideas they stand for , are so complex . 7. Secondly , because they have no standards . 8. Propriety not a sufficient remedy ...
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... signification . 23. The ends of language : first , to convey our ideas . 24. Secondly , to do it with quickness . 25. Thirdly , therewith to convey the knowledge of things . 26-31 . How men's words fail in all these . 32. How in ...
... signification . 23. The ends of language : first , to convey our ideas . 24. Secondly , to do it with quickness . 25. Thirdly , therewith to convey the knowledge of things . 26-31 . How men's words fail in all these . 32. How in ...
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... signification . 27. When the variation is to be explained . CHAP . I. Of knowledge in general . SECT . 1. Our knowledge conver- sant about our ideas . 2. Knowledge is the percep- tion of the agreement , or disagreement , of two ideas ...
... signification . 27. When the variation is to be explained . CHAP . I. Of knowledge in general . SECT . 1. Our knowledge conver- sant about our ideas . 2. Knowledge is the percep- tion of the agreement , or disagreement , of two ideas ...
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... signification of words . 8. But no real knowledge . 9. General propositions , con- cerning substances , are often trifling . 10. And why . 11. Thirdly , using words va- riously , is trifling with them . 12. Marks of verbal proposi ...
... signification of words . 8. But no real knowledge . 9. General propositions , con- cerning substances , are often trifling . 10. And why . 11. Thirdly , using words va- riously , is trifling with them . 12. Marks of verbal proposi ...
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... signification : for what is meant by them is commonly as hard to be understood in one , as another language . They are all marks of some action , or intimation of the mind ; and therefore to understand them rightly , the several views ...
... signification : for what is meant by them is commonly as hard to be understood in one , as another language . They are all marks of some action , or intimation of the mind ; and therefore to understand them rightly , the several views ...
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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 127 - It is evident the mind knows not things immediately, but only by the intervention of the ideas it has of them. Our knowledge therefore is real only so far as there is a conformity between our ideas and the reality of things.
Página 102 - As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.
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.
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 163 - ... neither oblique nor rectangle, neither equilateral, equicrural, nor scalenon ; but all and none of these at once. In effect, it is something imperfect, that cannot exist ; an idea wherein some parts of several different and inconsistent ideas are put together.
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.
Página 69 - For if we reflect on our own ways of thinking, we shall find that sometimes the mind perceives the agreement or disagreement of two ideas immediately by themselves, without the intervention of any other: and this, I think, we may call intuitive knowledge.
Página 214 - For the ideas that ethics are conversant about being all real essences, and such as I imagine have a discoverable connexion and agreement one with another ; so far as we can find their habitudes and relations, so far we shall be possessed of certain, real, and general truths : and I doubt not, but, if a right method were taken, a great part of morality might be made out with that clearness, that could leave, to a considering man, no more reason to doubt, than he could have to doubt of the truth of...