The Works of Thomas Reid: With Account of His Life and Writings, Volume 2Samuel Etheridge, Jun'r., 1814 |
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The Works of Thomas Reid: With Account of His Life and Writings, Volume 2 Thomas Reid Volledige weergave - 1814 |
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Pagina 152 - will satisfy him that they are in others." Speaking of the reality of our knowledge, he says, " It is evident the mind knows not things immediately, but only by the intervention of the ideas it has of them. Our knowledge therefore is real, only so far as there is a
Pagina 365 - neither be laid up in a repository, nor drawn out of it. But we are told, " That this laying up of our ideas in the repository of the memory signifies no more than this, that the mind has a power to revive
Pagina 188 - extension and figure, in a word, the things we see and feel, what are they but so many sensations, notions, ideas, or impressions on the sense; and is it possible to separate, even in thought, any of these
Pagina 212 - But this universal and primary notion of all men is soon destroyed by the slightest philosophy, which teaches us, that nothing can ever be present to the mind, but in image or perception; and that the
Pagina 173 - makes the generality of mankind averse from the notions I espouse, it is a misapprehension that I deny the reality of sensible things : but as it is you who are guilty of that, and not I, it follows, that in truth their aversion is against your notions, and not mine. I am
Pagina 180 - on which the philosophy now in the world is built, it would not be pardonable to deviate so far from them, or to inquire, so far as grammar itself would authorize, If the common settled opinion opposes it; especially in this place, where the received doctrine serves well enough to our present purpose.
Pagina 180 - By this system, we might possibly be enabled to aim at some dim and seeming conception how matter might at first be made and begin to exist; but it would give no aid in conceiving how a spirit might be made. These are the
Pagina 10 - knowledge which we have of our present thoughts and purposes, and, in general, of all the present operations of our minds. Whence we may observe, that consciousness is only of' things present. To apply consciousness to things past. which sometimes is done in popular discourse, ¿is to confound consciousness with memory; and all such confusion of
Pagina 257 - most of those of sensation being, in the mind, no more the likeness of something existing without us, than the names that stand for them are the likeness of our ideas,
Pagina 364 - no where; but only there is an ability in the mind, when it will, to revive them again, and. as it were, paint them anew upon itself, though some with more, some with less