... deserves the name of knowledge. If we persuade ourselves that our faculties act and inform us right concerning the existence of those objects that affect them, it cannot pass for an ill-grounded confidence: for I think nobody can, in earnest, be so... An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - Page 201by John Locke - 1805 - 510 pagesFull view - About this book
| George Henry Lewes - Philosophers - 1881 - 868 pages
...earnest be so skeptical as to be uncertain of the existence of those which he sees and feels. At least ho that can doubt so far (whatever he may have with his...never be sure I say any thing contrary to his own opinions. As to myself, I think God has given me assurance enough as to the existence of things without... | |
| George Stuart Fullerton - Knowledge, Theory of - 1890 - 168 pages
...those objects that affect them, it cannot pass for an ill-grounded confidence : for I think nobody can, in earnest, be so sceptical as to be uncertain...controversy with me; since he can never be sure I say anything contrary to his own opinion. As to myself, I think God has given me assurance enough of the... | |
| Alexander Campbell Fraser - Philosophy - 1890 - 330 pages
...sceptical as to be uncertain of the real existence of those things which he is actually seeing and feeling. At least, he that can doubt so far, whatever he may...controversy with me — since he can never be sure I say anything contrary to his own opinion. . . . We cannot talk of knowledge itself but by the help of those... | |
| Alexander Campbell Fraser - Philosophy - 1890 - 326 pages
...existence of those things which he is actually seeing and feeling. At least, he that can doubt so fur, whatever he may have with his own thoughts, will never...controversy with me — since he can never be sure I say anything contrary to his own opinion. . . . We cannot talk of knowledge itself but by the help of those... | |
| Alexander Campbell Fraser - Philosophy - 1890 - 324 pages
...organ of sight), this — "Cannot," Locke thinks, "pass for an ill-grounded confidence ; for nobody can, in earnest, be so sceptical as to be uncertain of the real existence of those things which he is actually seeing and feeling. At least, he that can doubt... | |
| John Locke - Philosophy - 1892 - 566 pages
...of those objects that affect them, it cannot pass for an ill-grounded confidence: for I think nobody can, in earnest, be so sceptical as to be uncertain...controversy with me; since he can never be sure I say anything contrary to his own opinion. As to myself, I think God has given me assurance enough of the... | |
| John Locke - Philosophy - 1892 - 572 pages
...of those objects that affect them, it cannot pass for an ill-grounded confidence: for I think nobody can, in earnest, be so sceptical as to be uncertain...those things which he sees and feels. At least, he tuat can doubt so far, (whatever he may have with r\ > 1 •< f»/1 his own thoughts,) will never have... | |
| Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz - Idea (Philosophy) - 1896 - 906 pages
...uncertain of the existence of things which he sees and feels. At least, he who can carry his doubts so far will never have any controversy with me, since he can never be certain that I say anything contrary to his opinion. The perceptions of sensible things § 4. are produced... | |
| Titus Lucretius Carus - 1898 - 592 pages
...primis ab sensibus esse creatam Notitiam veri. See i. 424. "I think nobody can in earnest," says Locke, "be so sceptical as to be uncertain of the existence of those things whch he sees and feels. At least, he that can doubt so far will never have any controversy with me,... | |
| Titus Lucretius Carus - 1898 - 574 pages
...ab sensibus esse creatam Notitiam veri. See i. 424. "I think nobody can in earnest," says Locke, " be so sceptical as to be uncertain of the existence of those things whch he sees and feels. At least, he that can doubt so far will never have any controversy with me,... | |
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