An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Volumen 2Cummings & Hilliard and J. T. Buckingham, 1813 |
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... less their proof . 11 Yet history is of great use . 12 In things which fenfe cannot dif- cover , analogy is the great rule of probability . 13 One case where contrary experi- ence leffens not the teftimony . 14 The bare teftimony of ...
... less their proof . 11 Yet history is of great use . 12 In things which fenfe cannot dif- cover , analogy is the great rule of probability . 13 One case where contrary experi- ence leffens not the teftimony . 14 The bare teftimony of ...
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... less fitted to attain that , so they are more or less perfect . We have in the former part of this discourse , often upon occasion , mention- ed a double use of words . First , One for the recording of our own thoughts . Secondly , The ...
... less fitted to attain that , so they are more or less perfect . We have in the former part of this discourse , often upon occasion , mention- ed a double use of words . First , One for the recording of our own thoughts . Secondly , The ...
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... less exactness will serve in the one than in the other , as we shall see in what follows . §4 . The imperfection of words is the doubtfulness of their sig- nification . THE chief end of language in communication being to be under- stood ...
... less exactness will serve in the one than in the other , as we shall see in what follows . §4 . The imperfection of words is the doubtfulness of their sig- nification . THE chief end of language in communication being to be under- stood ...
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... less anxious about the sense of other authors ; who writing but their own opinions , we are under no greater necessity to know them , than they to know ours . Our good or evil depending not on their decrees , we may safely be ignorant ...
... less anxious about the sense of other authors ; who writing but their own opinions , we are under no greater necessity to know them , than they to know ours . Our good or evil depending not on their decrees , we may safely be ignorant ...
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... less number of particular beings : who shall determine in this case which are those that are to make up the precise collection that is to be signified by the specific name ; or can with any just authority prescribe , which obvious or ...
... less number of particular beings : who shall determine in this case which are those that are to make up the precise collection that is to be signified by the specific name ; or can with any just authority prescribe , which obvious or ...
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Página 71 - 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.
Página 125 - 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 249 - 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...
Página 301 - Nobody is made any thing by hearing of rules, or laying them up in his memory ; practice must settle the habit of doing without reflecting on the rule : and you may as well hope to make a good painter or musician extempore by a lecture and instruction in the arts of music and painting, as a coherent thinker, or strict reasoner, by a set of rules, shewing him wherein right reasoning consists.
Página 126 - Is it true of the idea of a triangle, that its three angles are equal to two right ones ? It is true also of a triangle, wherever it really exists.
Página 270 - 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.
Página 248 - ... themselves that they are so. How a man may know whether he be so in earnest, is worth inquiry : and I think there is this one unerring mark of it, viz., the not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.
Página 178 - God. —Thus from the consideration of ourselves, and what we infallibly find in our own constitutions, our reason leads us to the knowledge of this certain and evident truth, that there is an eternal, most powerful, and most knowing Being ; which whether any one will please to call " God," it matters not. The thing is evident; and from this idea duly considered, will easily be deduced all those other attributes which we ought to ascribe to this Eternal Being.
Página 392 - 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 but motion.
Página 45 - 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...