An essay concerning human understanding. To which are now first added, i. an analysis of mr. Locke's doctrine of ideas [&c., incl. some] extr. from the author's works, Volume 2

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Three sorts of ideas make our complex ones of substances
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Powers make a great part of our complex ideas of substances
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The now secondary qualities of bodies would disappear if we could discover the primary ones of their minute parts
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Our faculties of discovery suited to our state
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Conjecture about spirits
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Complex ideas of substance
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Idea of spiritual substances as clear as of bodily substances
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No idea of abstract substance
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The cohesion of solid parts and impulse the primary ideas
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Thirdly ideas of substances when false
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Truth or falsehood always supposes affirmation or negation
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Ideas in themselves neither true nor false
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of body 18 Thinking and motivity the primary ideas of spirit
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1921 Spirits capable of motion
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Idea of soul and body compared 2327 Cohesion of solid parts in body as hard to be conceived as thinking in a soul
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Fourthly when judged to represent the real essence
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Ideas when false
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More properly to be called right or wrong
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Much less of spirits
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Communication of motion by impulse or by thought equally intelligible
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Ideas of body and spirit compared
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Which yet serve for common converse
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The notion of spirit involves no more difficulty in it than that of body
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The more general our ideas are the more incomplete and partial they
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This all accommodated to the end of speech
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SECT
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Men make the species Instance gold
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Though nature makes the similitude
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And continues it in the races of things
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Each abstract idea is an essence
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Conclusion
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Proportional
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Natural 3 Instituted 4 Moral CHAPTER XXVIII
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Moral good and evil 6 Moral rules 7 Laws
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Divine law the measure of sin and duty 9 Civil law the measure of crimes and innocence
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Philosophical law the measure of virtue and vice
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SECT
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Its enforcements commendation and discredit 13 These three laws the rules of moral good and evil
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Morality is the relation of actions to these rules 16 The denominations of actions often mislead us 17 Relations innumerable 18 All relations terminate...
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CHAPTER XXIX
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CHAPTER XXXI
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CHAPTER XXXIII
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Something unreasonable in most men 2 Not wholly from selflove 3 Nor from education 4 A degree of madness
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CHAPTER II
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CHAPTER IV
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CHAPTER V
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CHAPTER VIII
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CHAPTER X
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1012 Instances
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Ideas some clear and distinct others obscure and confused 2 Clear and obscure explained by sight
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When the variation is to be explained
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SECT
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SECT
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Objection knowledge placed in ideas may be all bare vision
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Answer not so where ideas agree with things 4 As first all simple ideas do 5 Secondly all complex ideas except of substances 6 Hence the reality of m...
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cerning them is real
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In our inquiries about substances we must consider ideas and not confine our thoughts to names or species sup posed set out by names
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Objection against a changeling being something between man and beast answered
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1416 Farther instances of the effects of the association of ideas 17 Its influence on intellectual habits 18 Observable in different sects 19 Conclusion
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Words and species 18 Recapitulation
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Pagina 78 - 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.
Pagina 74 - For we must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
Pagina 55 - I think, is a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing, in different times and places...
Pagina 155 - Conceptions; and to make them stand as marks for the Ideas within his own Mind, whereby they might be made known to others, and the Thoughts of Men's Minds be conveyed from one to another.
Pagina 155 - It may also lead us a little towards the original of all our notions and knowledge, if we remark how great a dependence our words have on common sensible ideas; and how those which are made use of to stand for actions and notions quite removed from sense, have their rise from thence, and from obvious sensible ideas are transferred to more abstruse significations, and made to stand for ideas that come not under the cognizance of our senses...
Pagina 319 - For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Pagina 72 - And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
Pagina 320 - For it is as repugnant to the idea of senseless matter, that it should put into itself sense, perception, and knowledge, as it is repugnant to the idea of a triangle, that it should put into itself greater angles than two right ones.
Pagina 343 - 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 306 - This part of knowledge is irresistible, and like bright sunshine, forces itself immediately to be perceived, as soon as ever the mind turns its view that way ; and leaves no room for hesitation, doubt, or examination, but the mind is presently filled with the clear light of it. It is on this intuition that depends all the certainty and evidence of all our knowledge...

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