An essay concerning human understanding. To which are now added, i. Analysis of mr. Locke's doctrine of ideas [&c.] extr. from the author's works1816 |
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... evident these maxims are not in the mind so early as the use of rea- son and therefore the coming to the use of reason is falsely assigned , as the time of their discovery . How many instances of the use of reason may we observe in ...
... evident these maxims are not in the mind so early as the use of rea- son and therefore the coming to the use of reason is falsely assigned , as the time of their discovery . How many instances of the use of reason may we observe in ...
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... evident propositions , which are assented to at first hearing , as that one and two are equal to three ; that green is not red , & c .; are received as the con- sequences of those more universal proposi- tions , which are looked on as ...
... evident propositions , which are assented to at first hearing , as that one and two are equal to three ; that green is not red , & c .; are received as the con- sequences of those more universal proposi- tions , which are looked on as ...
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... evident propositions ; and therefore it is longer before they are admitted and assented to by the growing understanding . And as to the usefulness of these magnified maxims , that perhaps will not be fouud so great as is generally ...
... evident propositions ; and therefore it is longer before they are admitted and assented to by the growing understanding . And as to the usefulness of these magnified maxims , that perhaps will not be fouud so great as is generally ...
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... evident , that they have learned the terms , and their sig- nification ; neither of which was born with them . But this is not all the acquired knowledge in the case : the ideas themselves , about which the proposition is , are not born ...
... evident , that they have learned the terms , and their sig- nification ; neither of which was born with them . But this is not all the acquired knowledge in the case : the ideas themselves , about which the proposition is , are not born ...
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... evident , if there be any innate truths in the mind , they must necessarily be the first of any thought on ; the first that appear there . because least where § . 27. That the general maxims , we are Not innate , discoursing of , are ...
... evident , if there be any innate truths in the mind , they must necessarily be the first of any thought on ; the first that appear there . because least where § . 27. That the general maxims , we are Not innate , discoursing of , are ...
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Page 100 - As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.
Page 353 - Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die. And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain ; it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain. But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him ; and to every seed his own body.
Page 77 - Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from EXPERIENCE; in that all our knowledge is founded, and from that it ultimately derives itself.
Page 269 - 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. Revelation is natural reason enlarged by a new set of discoveries, communicated by God immediately, which reason vouches the truth of, by the testimony and proofs it gives, that they come from God.
Page 348 - Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections ; unless we chew them over again they will not give us strength and nourishment.
Page 79 - The understanding seems to me not to have the least glimmering of any ideas which it doth not receive from one of these two. External objects furnish the mind with the ideas of sensible qualities, which are all those different perceptions they produce in us; and the mind furnishes the understanding with ideas of its own operations. These, when we have taken a full survey of them and their several modes, combinations, and relations, we shall find to contain all our whole stock of ideas, and that we...
Page 5 - Our business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct. If we can find out those measures, whereby a rational creature, put in that state in which man is in this world, may and ought to govern his opinions, and actions depending thereon, we need not to be troubled that some other things escape our knowledge.
Page 242 - But God has not been so sparing to men to make them barely two-legged creatures, and left it to Aristotle to make them rational...
Page 2 - I shall not at present meddle with the physical consideration of the mind; or trouble myself to examine wherein its essence consists; or by what motions of our spirits or alterations of our bodies we come to have any sensation by our organs, or any ideas in our understandings; and whether those ideas do in their formation, any or all of them, depend on matter or not.
Page 440 - To return to general words, it is plain, by what has been said, that general and " universal belong not to the real existence of things, but are the inventions and " creatures of the understanding, made by it for its own use, and concern only signs,