A Series of Lectures upon Locke's EssayHodges & Mc Arthur, 1824 - 164 páginas |
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abstract ideas absurdity abuse according to Locke action admit agreement or disagreement Aristotle body brutes called Cartesian cause colour complex ideas conceives connexion defined definition degree of assent DIONYSIUS LARDNER doctrine duration effect enthymeme Essay extension external objects faculties figure ground of probability ideas of reflection ideas of sensation ideas of substances ideas which enter Illation impression intuitive knowledge Julius Cæsar knowledge language Lect LECTURE Locke considers Locke illustrate Locke's matter memory mind mixed modes moral motion names of simple necessary nexion nominalist observed obtain the idea operation countenances operations opinions organs pain particles particular fact passive perceived perception of ideas petitio principii pleasure primary qualities principle propositions real essences real existence reason received relations resemblance secondary qualities sensation and reflection sense sensible shew signification simple ideas simple modes solidity sophism soul species spirit supposed syllogism term things thought tion truth words
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Página 74 - ... a closet wholly shut from light, with only some little openings left to let in external visible resemblances, or ideas of things without: would the pictures coming into such a dark room but stay there, and lie so orderly as to be found upon occasion, it would very much resemble the understanding of a...
Página 52 - Suppose a man born blind, and now adult, and taught by his touch to distinguish between a cube and a sphere of the same metal, and nighly of the same bigness, so as to tell, when he felt one and the other, which is the cube, which the sphere. Suppose then the cube and sphere placed on a table, and the blind man to be made to see; quaere, whether by his sight, before he touched them, he could now distinguish and tell which is the globe, which the cube?
Página 72 - ... abstract ideas are not so obvious or easy to children, or the yet unexercised mind, as particular ones. If they seem so to grown men, it is only because by constant and familiar use they are made so.
Página 43 - To discover the nature of our ideas the better, and to discourse of them intelligibly, it will be convenient to distinguish them, as they are ideas or perceptions in our minds, and as they are modifications of matter in the bodies that cause such perceptions in us; that so we may not think (as perhaps usually is done) that they are exactly the images and resemblances of something inherent in the subject; most of those of sensation being...
Página 157 - When he first saw, he was so far from making any judgment about distances, that he thought all objects whatever touched his eyes, (as he expressed it,) as what he felt did his skin...
Página 59 - But our ideas being nothing but actual perceptions in the mind, which cease to be any thing when there is no perception of them, this laying up of our ideas in the repository of the memory signifies no more but this, that the mind has a power in many cases to revive perceptions which it has once had, with this additional perception annexed to them, that it has had them before.
Página 41 - First such as are utterly inseparable from the Body, in what estate soever it be; such as in all the alterations and changes it suffers, all the force can be used upon it, it constantly keeps; and such as Sense constantly finds in every particle of Matter, which has bulk enough to be perceived...
Página 1 - Since it is the understanding that sets man above the rest of sensible beings, and gives him all the advantage and dominion which he has over them; it is certainly a subject, even for its nobleness, worth our labour to inquire into.
Página 69 - To prevent this, the mind makes the particular ideas received from particular objects to become general; which is done by considering them as they are in the mind such appearances, separate from all other existences and the circumstances of real existence, as time, place, or any other concomitant ideas. This is called ABSTRACTION, whereby ideas taken from particular beings become general representatives of all of the same kind; and their names, general names, applicable to whatever exists conformable...
Página 63 - How much the constitution of our bodies, and the make of our animal spirits, are concerned in this ; and whether the temper of the brain makes this difference, that in some it retains the characters drawn on it like marble, in others like free-stone, and in others little better than sand...