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Selections from Locke's Essay on the Human Understanding John Locke,Sh Emmens No preview available - 2016 |
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agree agreement or disagreement annexed aqua regia argument Aristotle body capable certainly clear and distinct co-existence colour complex idea conceive concerning connection consciousness considered demonstration discourse discover discovery disputes distinct ideas doctrine doubt evident examine existence faculties faith farther gism gold hath ideas they stand ignorant imperfection impressions imprinted inference innate ideas innate principles intermediate ideas intuitive knowledge known language laws of thought learned ledge Locke Locke's mankind matter maxims means memory men's mind mixed modes moral names of substances natural faculties nature necessary never notions obscurity observe opinion parrot particular perceive perception perhaps personal identity philosophers Plato precise propositions prove rational real essence reason reflection revelation Secondly sensation senses sensible signification simple ideas sleep Socrates sort soul sounds species supposed syllogism things Thirdly thought tion true truth understanding unquestionable truths whereby wherein whereof whilst words
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Page 151 - For if we will reflect on our own ways of thinking, we shall find that some- , times 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
Page 6 - 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.
Page 48 - Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas...
Page 190 - 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.
Page 71 - From what has been said, it is easy to discover what is so much inquired after, the principium individuationis; and that, it is plain, is existence itself; which determines a being of any sort to a particular time and place, incommunicable to two beings of the same kind.
Page 51 - Men then come to be furnished with fewer or more simple ideas from without, according as the objects they converse with afford greater or less variety; and from the operations of their minds within, according as they more or less reflect on them.
Page 211 - Thou art, of what sort the eternal life of the saints was to be, which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive.
Page 76 - prince laughed, and said, Vous gardez les poulles? " The parrot answered, Oui, moi ; et je scai bien faire; " and made the chuck four or five times that people " use to make to chickens when they call them.
Page 82 - For this would no more make him the same person with Nestor, than if some of the particles of matter that were once a part of Nestor, were now a part of this man ; the same immaterial substance, without the same consciousness, no more making the same person by being united to nny body, than the same particle of matter, without consciousness, united to any body, makes the same person.
Page 53 - I do not say, there is no soul in a man because he is not sensible of it in his sleep ; but I do say, he cannot think at any time, waking or sleeping, without being sensible of it.