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... CHAP . V. Of Affociation , or Combination * SECT . I. General Remarks upon this Faculty ibid . SECT . II . Of the Influence of Affociation on our various Judgments 193 CHAP . CHAP . VI . Of Conception and Imagination SECT .
... CHAP . V. Of Affociation , or Combination * SECT . I. General Remarks upon this Faculty ibid . SECT . II . Of the Influence of Affociation on our various Judgments 193 CHAP . CHAP . VI . Of Conception and Imagination SECT .
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... Imagination SECT . I. General Remarks upon Conception SECT . II . Whether there is Belief accom- panying Conception any p . 208 ibid . 237 SECT . III . Of the Train of Thought 256 CHAP . VII . Of Memory 269 SECT . I. Analysis of the ...
... Imagination SECT . I. General Remarks upon Conception SECT . II . Whether there is Belief accom- panying Conception any p . 208 ibid . 237 SECT . III . Of the Train of Thought 256 CHAP . VII . Of Memory 269 SECT . I. Analysis of the ...
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... Imagining , & c . are borrowed from material objects . This gives rife to an ambiguity in the language of intel- lectual science peculiar to itself ; and as , per- haps , no two species of beings are more ef fentially different than ...
... Imagining , & c . are borrowed from material objects . This gives rife to an ambiguity in the language of intel- lectual science peculiar to itself ; and as , per- haps , no two species of beings are more ef fentially different than ...
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... imagination , & c . A very few only , fuch as would neceffarily occur in the language of a rude people , as for example , thinking , willing , feeing , hearing , & c . are of Saxon or Gothic original . This illuftrates the natural ...
... imagination , & c . A very few only , fuch as would neceffarily occur in the language of a rude people , as for example , thinking , willing , feeing , hearing , & c . are of Saxon or Gothic original . This illuftrates the natural ...
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... imagination , in a more refined ftate , when they were called Species , fimply ; and when presented to the intellect in their most refined ftate of all , they were called Phantafms ; and it was maintained , that there can be no ...
... imagination , in a more refined ftate , when they were called Species , fimply ; and when presented to the intellect in their most refined ftate of all , they were called Phantafms ; and it was maintained , that there can be no ...
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Page 66 - The power that is in any body, by reason of the particular constitution of its primary qualities, to make such a change in the bulk, figure, texture, and motion of another body, as to make it operate on our senses, differently from what it did before. Thus the sun has a power to make wax white, and fire to make lead fluid.
Page 65 - First, the bulk, figure, number, situation, and motion or rest of their solid parts. Those are in them, whether we perceive them or no ; and when they are of that size that we can discover them, we have by these an idea of the thing as it is in itself, as is plain in artificial things.
Page 192 - The idea of this remarkable piece of household stuff had so mixed itself with the turns and steps of all his dances, that though in that chamber he could dance excellently well, yet it was only whilst that trunk was there; nor could he perform well in any other place, unless that or some such other trunk had its due position in the room.
Page 182 - Did you never observe one of your clerks cutting his paper with a blunt ivory knife? Did you ever know the knife to fail going the true way? Whereas, if he had used a razor, or a penknife, he had odds against him of spoiling a whole sheet.
Page 191 - A friend of mine knew one perfectly cured of madness by a very harsh and offensive operation. The gentleman who was thus recovered, with great sense of gratitude and acknowledgment owned the cure all his life after, as the greatest obligation he could have received; but, whatever gratitude and reason suggested to him, he could never bear the sight of the operator: that image brought back with it the idea of that agony which he suffered from his hands, which was too mighty and intolerable for him...
Page 261 - ... that attend his levee. They are all ambitious of his attention : he goes round the circle, bestowing a bow upon one, a smile upon another ; asks a short question of a third ; while a fourth is honoured with a particular conference ; and the greater part have no particular mark of attention, but go as they came. It is true, he can give no mark of his attention to those who were not there, but he has a sufficient number for making a choice and distinction.
Page 66 - ... otherwise thought of. ^For the second sort, viz., the powers to produce several ideas in us by our senses, are looked upon as real qualities in the things thus affecting us; but the third sort are called and esteemed barely powers.
Page 161 - Men having been accustomed from their cradles to learn words, which are easily got and retained, before they knew, or had framed the complex ideas, to which they were annexed, or which were to be found in the things they were thought to stand for; they usually continue to do so all their lives; and without taking the pains necessary to settle in their minds determined ideas, they use their words for such unsteady and confused notions as they have, contenting...
Page 309 - First. Knowledge, whereby it certainly perceives, and is undoubtedly satisfied of the agreement or disagreement of any ideas. Secondly. Judgment, which is the putting ideas together, or separating them from one another in the mind, when their certain agreement or disagreement is not perceived, but presumed to be so ; which is, as the word imports, taken to be so before it certainly appears.
Page 79 - Some truths there are so near and obvious to the mind that a man need only open his eyes to see them. Such I take this important one to be, viz. that all the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth, in a word all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world, have not any subsistence without a mind...