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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Volume 1

John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1805 - 562 pages
...„ personal identity consists, we must consider identity. what person stands for; which, I think, is a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and...same thinking thing in different times and places ; Mhich it does only by that consciousness which is inseparable from thinking, and, as it seems to...
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Volume 2

John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1805 - 520 pages
...as man. In which popular sense Mr. Locke manifestly takes the word, when he says, it "stands for " a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and...can consider itself as itself, the same " thinking being, in different times and places." B. 2. C. 27. §. 9. But when the term is used more accurately...
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An Analytical Abridgment of Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding

John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1808 - 346 pages
...once must, as well as the same immaterial spirit, go to the making of the same man. Person stands for a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and...same thinking thing in different times and places; which it does by that consciousness which is inseparable from thinking, and essential to it. We cannot...
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An essay concerning human understanding. Also, extr. from the author's works ...

John Locke - 1819 - 518 pages
...find wherein personal identity consists, we must consider what person stands for ; which, 1 think, is a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and...same thinking thing in different times and places; which it does only by that consciousness which is inseparable from thinking, and, as it seems to me,...
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The British essayists; to which are prefixed prefaces by J. Ferguson, Volume 35

British essayists - 1819 - 304 pages
...compose personal identity. Mr. Locke, after having premised that the word person properly signifies a thinking intelligent being that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, concludes, that it is consciousness alone, and not an identity of substance, which makes this personal...
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The British Essayists: Spectator

James Ferguson - English essays - 1819 - 310 pages
...compose personal identity. Mr. Locke, after having premised that the word person properly signifies a thinking intelligent being that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, concludes, that it is consciousness alone, and not an identity of substance, which makes this personal...
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A Search of Truth in the Science of the Human Mind, Part First, Volume 1

Frederick Beasley - Philosophy - 1822 - 584 pages
...and seeirs to be essential to it." Here we find the very opinion of Bishop Butler distinctly stated, a person is a thinking intelligent being, that has...same thinking thing in different times and places, by means of consciousness. It is unaccountable that Mr. Locke should after this, have maintained that...
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The Works of John Locke, Volume 2

John Locke - Philosophy - 1823 - 444 pages
...Personal personal identity consists, we must con- identity, sider what person stands for; which, I think, is a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and...same thinking thing in different times and places; which it does only by that consciousness which is inseparable from thinking, and as it seems to me...
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Volume 1

John Locke - Intellect - 1823 - 672 pages
...to find wherein personal identity consists, we must consider what person stands for; which, I think, is a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and...same thinking thing in different times and places; which it does onty by that consciousness which is inseparable from thinking, and, as it seems to me,...
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The Works of John Locke, Volume 4

John Locke - Philosophy - 1823 - 540 pages
...And my definition of person, which your lordship quotes out of my Essay, is, " that person stands for a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and...same thinking thing in different times and places." When your lordship shall show any repugnancy in this my idea (which I denote by the sound person) to...
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