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Pagina iv
... cause some repetitions . But , to confess the truth , I am now too lazy or too busy to make it shorter . " The second of the proposed ends - that of pre- senting the text ' in a form more easy of access ' - I have chiefly endeavoured to ...
... cause some repetitions . But , to confess the truth , I am now too lazy or too busy to make it shorter . " The second of the proposed ends - that of pre- senting the text ' in a form more easy of access ' - I have chiefly endeavoured to ...
Pagina xii
... causes and modes of mutual operation in mental and material agencies ; or whether , with LOCKE , we shall decline " the physical consideration of the mind , ” and the inquiry “ whether our ideas do , in their formation , any or all of ...
... causes and modes of mutual operation in mental and material agencies ; or whether , with LOCKE , we shall decline " the physical consideration of the mind , ” and the inquiry “ whether our ideas do , in their formation , any or all of ...
Pagina xv
... Causes which the Creator has been supposed to have designed as springs of the wondrous mechanism of the mental as of the material world . The latter of the above departments , philosophers are now agreed , is not a ... cause and effect.
... Causes which the Creator has been supposed to have designed as springs of the wondrous mechanism of the mental as of the material world . The latter of the above departments , philosophers are now agreed , is not a ... cause and effect.
Pagina xvi
JOHN MURRAY. ing hourly advances in developing relations of cause and effect in aid of practical progress and the improve- ment of life , yet no cause can be traced out which is not itself an effect of something else , and multitudes of ...
JOHN MURRAY. ing hourly advances in developing relations of cause and effect in aid of practical progress and the improve- ment of life , yet no cause can be traced out which is not itself an effect of something else , and multitudes of ...
Pagina xix
... causes than are sufficient to solve the phenomenon . It is contrary to the economy of nature to do by two different causes that which might have been done by one and the same . " He then proceeds to say : " In the course of his ...
... causes than are sufficient to solve the phenomenon . It is contrary to the economy of nature to do by two different causes that which might have been done by one and the same . " He then proceeds to say : " In the course of his ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 37 - For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy...
Pagina xxxi - 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.
Pagina 31 - Thus the ideas, as well as children, of our youth often die before us ; and our minds represent to us those tombs to which we are approaching ; where though the brass and marble remain, yet the inscriptions are effaced by time, and the imagery moulders away. The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colours ; and if not sometimes refreshed, vanish and disappear.
Pagina 10 - Secondly, such qualities which in truth are nothing in the objects themselves but powers to produce various sensations in us by their primary qualities, ie by the bulk, figure, texture, and motion of their insensible parts, as colours, sounds, tastes, etc.
Pagina 6 - When the understanding is once stored with these simple ideas, it has the power to repeat, compare, and unite them, even to an almost infinite variety, and so can make at pleasure new complex ideas. But it is not in the power of the most exalted wit, or enlarged understanding, by any quickness or variety of thought, to invent or frame one new simple idea in the mind, not taken in by the ways before mentioned: nor can any force of the understanding destroy those that are there.
Pagina xxx - It being that term which, I think, serves best to stand for whatsoever is the object of the understanding when a man thinks: I have used it to express whatever is meant by phantasm, notion, species, or whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking; and I could not avoid frequently using it.
Pagina 23 - Suppose a man born blind, and now adult, and taught by his touch to distinguish between a cube, and a sphere of the same metal, and nighly of the same bigness, so as to tell, when he felt one and...
Pagina 132 - I doubt not, but if we could trace them to their sources, we should find, in all languages, the names, which stand for things that fall not under our senses, to have had their first rise from sensible ideas.
Pagina xxvi - I can give any account of the ways whereby our understandings come to attain those notions of things we have, and can set down any measures of the certainty of our knowledge, or the grounds of those persuasions which are to be found amongst men...
Pagina 5 - In this part the understanding is merely passive ; and whether or no it will have these beginnings, and, as it were, materials of knowledge, is not in its own power. For the objects of our senses do, many of them, obtrude their particular ideas upon our minds, whether we will or no: and the operations of our minds will not let us be without, at least, some obscure notions of them.