An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Volume 2J. Johnson, W. J. and J. Richardson, W. Otridge and Son, F. C. and J. Rivington, D. Ogilvy and Son, Leigh and Sotheby, T. Payne, [and 11 others], and J. Mawman, 1805 - 510 pagina's |
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... Morality capable of de- monstration . 17. Definitions can make mo- ral discourses clear . 18. And is the only way . 19. Thirdly , in substances , by showing and defining . Ideas of the leading qua- 20 , 21 . lities of substances , are ...
... Morality capable of de- monstration . 17. Definitions can make mo- ral discourses clear . 18. And is the only way . 19. Thirdly , in substances , by showing and defining . Ideas of the leading qua- 20 , 21 . lities of substances , are ...
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... Morality capable of demonstration . 19. Two things have made moral ideas thought in- capable of demonstration . Their complexedness and want of sensible represen- tations . 20. Remedies of thofe diffi . culties . 21. Fourthly , of real ...
... Morality capable of demonstration . 19. Two things have made moral ideas thought in- capable of demonstration . Their complexedness and want of sensible represen- tations . 20. Remedies of thofe diffi . culties . 21. Fourthly , of real ...
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... Moral and metaphysical truth . CHAP . VI . Of universal propositions , their truth and certainty . SECT . 1. Treating of words , neces- sary to knowledge . 2. General truths hardly to be understood , but in ver- bal propositions . 3 ...
... Moral and metaphysical truth . CHAP . VI . Of universal propositions , their truth and certainty . SECT . 1. Treating of words , neces- sary to knowledge . 2. General truths hardly to be understood , but in ver- bal propositions . 3 ...
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... morality , also , may be made clearer . 9. But knowledge of bodies is to be improved only by experience . 10. This may procure us con- venience , not science . 11. We are fitted for moral knowledge , and natural improvements . 12. But ...
... morality , also , may be made clearer . 9. But knowledge of bodies is to be improved only by experience . 10. This may procure us con- venience , not science . 11. We are fitted for moral knowledge , and natural improvements . 12. But ...
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... moral words , have seldom , in two different men , the same precise signifi- cation ; since one man's complex idea seldom agrees with another's , and often differs from his own , from that which he had yesterday , or will have to ...
... moral words , have seldom , in two different men , the same precise signifi- cation ; since one man's complex idea seldom agrees with another's , and often differs from his own , from that which he had yesterday , or will have to ...
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Pagina 102 - 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 127 - 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 conformity between our ideas and the reality of things.
Pagina 102 - As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.
Pagina 273 - Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal Father of light, and fountain of all knowledge, communicates to mankind that portion of truth which he has laid within the reach of their natural faculties: revelation is natural reason enlarged by a new set of discoveries communicated by God immediately, which reason vouches the truth of, by the testimony and proofs it gives, that they come from God.
Pagina 339 - I have mentioned mathematics as a way to settle in the mind a habit of reasoning closely and in train ; not that I think it necessary that all men should be deep mathematicians, but that, having got the way of reasoning which that study necessarily brings the mind to, they might be able to transfer it to other parts of knowledge, as they shall have occasion.
Pagina 201 - ... 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 sceptical as to be uncertain of the existence of those things which he sees and feels.
Pagina 163 - ... neither oblique nor rectangle, neither equilateral, equicrural, nor scalenon ; but all and none of these at once. In effect, it is something imperfect, that cannot exist ; an idea wherein some parts of several different and inconsistent ideas are put together.
Pagina 438 - Heat is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts of the object, which produces in us that sensation, from whence we denominate the object hot ; so what in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing b,ut motion.
Pagina 69 - For if we reflect on our own ways of thinking, we shall find that sometimes the mind perceives the agreement or disagreement of two ideas immediately by themselves, without the intervention of any other: and this, I think, we may call intuitive knowledge.
Pagina 214 - For the ideas that ethics are conversant about being all real essences, and such as I imagine have a discoverable connexion and agreement one with another ; so far as we can find their habitudes and relations, so far we shall be possessed of certain, real, and general truths : and I doubt not, but, if a right method were taken, a great part of morality might be made out with that clearness, that could leave, to a considering man, no more reason to doubt, than he could have to doubt of the truth of...