An essay concerning human understanding. With the notes and illustr. of the author, and an analysis of his doctrine of ideas1849 |
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Pagina 13
... nature they seem so fond of , whilst they make the knowledge of those principles to depend on the labour of our thoughts ; for all reasoning is search and casting about , and requires pains and application . And how can it with any ...
... nature they seem so fond of , whilst they make the knowledge of those principles to depend on the labour of our thoughts ; for all reasoning is search and casting about , and requires pains and application . And how can it with any ...
Pagina 18
... natural and original impression , ( if there were any such , ) they could not but be known before ? Or doth the proposing them print them clearer in the mind than nature did ? If so , then the consequence will be , that a man knows them ...
... natural and original impression , ( if there were any such , ) they could not but be known before ? Or doth the proposing them print them clearer in the mind than nature did ? If so , then the consequence will be , that a man knows them ...
Pagina 19
... nature of the things contained in those words would not suffer him to think otherwise , how or whensoever he is brought to reflect on them . And if whatever is assented to at first hearing and understanding the terms , must pass for an ...
... nature of the things contained in those words would not suffer him to think otherwise , how or whensoever he is brought to reflect on them . And if whatever is assented to at first hearing and understanding the terms , must pass for an ...
Pagina 21
... nature has imprinted , were there any such ? Can it be imagined , with any appearance of reason , that they perceive the impressions from things without , and be at the same time ignorant of those characters which nature itself has ...
... nature has imprinted , were there any such ? Can it be imagined , with any appearance of reason , that they perceive the impressions from things without , and be at the same time ignorant of those characters which nature itself has ...
Pagina 24
... nature are there for operation , and must produce conformity of action , not barely speculative assent to their truth , or else they are in vain distin- guished from speculative maxims . Nature , I confess , has put into man a desire of ...
... nature are there for operation , and must produce conformity of action , not barely speculative assent to their truth , or else they are in vain distin- guished from speculative maxims . Nature , I confess , has put into man a desire of ...
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Pagina 432 - Godward: not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves ; but our sufficiency is of God ; who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
Pagina 54 - ... the perception of the operations of our own minds within us, as it is employed about the ideas it has got ; which operations, when the soul comes to reflect on and consider, do furnish the understanding with another set of ideas which could not be had from things without ; and such are perception, thinking, doubting, believing, reasoning, knowing, willing, and all the different actings of our own minds ; which we, being conscious of, and observing in ourselves, do from these receive into our...
Pagina 2 - I can discover the powers thereof, how far they reach, to what things they are in any degree proportionate, and where they fail us, I suppose it may be of use to prevail with the busy mind of man to be more cautious in meddling with things exceeding its comprehension ; to stop when it is at the utmost extent of its tether; and to sit down in a quiet ignorance of those things which, upon examination, are found to be beyond the reach of our capacities.
Pagina 54 - These two, I say, viz. external material things as the objects of sensation, and the operations of our own minds within as the objects of reflection, are, to me, the only originals from whence all our ideas take their beginnings.
Pagina 10 - It is an established opinion among some men, that there are in the understanding certain innate principles ; some primary notions, xoiml ivmai, characters, as it were, stamped upon the mind of man, which the soul receives in its very first being, and brings into the world with it.
Pagina 96 - I pretend not to teach, but to inquire, and therefore cannot but confess here again, that external and internal sensation are the only passages that I can find of knowledge to the understanding. These alone, as far as I can discover, are the windows by which light is let into this dark room...
Pagina 513 - 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...
Pagina 204 - I have said, not imagining how these simple ideas can subsist by themselves, we accustom ourselves to suppose some substratum wherein they do subsist, and from which they do result, which therefore we call substance.
Pagina 3 - ... to take a survey of our own understandings, examine our own powers, and see to what things they were adapted. Till that was done I suspected we began at the wrong end, and in vain sought for satisfaction in a quiet and...
Pagina 548 - For since the things the mind contemplates are none of them, besides itself, present to the understanding, it is necessary that something else, as a sign or representation of the thing it considers, should be present to it: and these are ideas.