An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Volumen 2Cummings & Hilliard and J. T. Buckingham, 1813 |
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... perhaps as much neglected , as some others over - diligently cultivated . It is easy for men to write , one after another , of cases and genders , modes and tenses , gerunds and supines . In these , and the like , there has been great ...
... perhaps as much neglected , as some others over - diligently cultivated . It is easy for men to write , one after another , of cases and genders , modes and tenses , gerunds and supines . In these , and the like , there has been great ...
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... perhaps is visible , has no natural connection with those other ideas that make up the complex one , named murder . They have their union and combination only from the understanding : which unites them under one name : but uniting them ...
... perhaps is visible , has no natural connection with those other ideas that make up the complex one , named murder . They have their union and combination only from the understanding : which unites them under one name : but uniting them ...
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... perhaps have taken it for a very frivolous or extravagant one : since there was no one there that thought not himself to understand very perfectly what the word liquor stood for ; which I think too , none of the most perplexed names of ...
... perhaps have taken it for a very frivolous or extravagant one : since there was no one there that thought not himself to understand very perfectly what the word liquor stood for ; which I think too , none of the most perplexed names of ...
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... perhaps peace too , lie a great deal opener than it does . § 22. This should teach us moderation , in imposing our own sense of old authors . SURE I am , that the signification of words in all languages , de- pending very much on the ...
... perhaps peace too , lie a great deal opener than it does . § 22. This should teach us moderation , in imposing our own sense of old authors . SURE I am , that the signification of words in all languages , de- pending very much on the ...
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... perhaps , in words little suspected of any such misuse . I shall instance in one only , and that a very familiar one how many intricate disputes have there been about matter , as if there were some such thing really in nature , distinct ...
... perhaps , in words little suspected of any such misuse . I shall instance in one only , and that a very familiar one how many intricate disputes have there been about matter , as if there were some such thing really in nature , distinct ...
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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...