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Abstract Ideas according to Locke admits argument Aristotle asserts Berkeley Category of RELATION certainty Cicero Complex Idea concerning Human Understanding Condillac connexion Consciousness criticism Cudworth denied Descartes Disc Diss distinction Empiricism employed enounced Essay concerning Human Experience expression External Faculties Genesis Happiness Hobbes Ibid Idea of Substance Ideas of Relation Identity Immaterial Innate Ideas Intellectual Intuitive Knowledge Judgment Kant Kantian language ledge Leibnitz Liberty Locke holds Locke tells Locke's Philosophy Locke's system Locke's Theory materials ment merely Metaphysical Moral nature neral Nihilism Nominalist notion Number object opinion Paralogism passage perception Philo Plato Polemic against Innate Principles proclaims propositions Qualities of Matter question Rational reality Reason reference regarded says Locke sect Sensation and Reflection Sensation or Reflection Sense Sensible Qualities Simple Ideas Sir William Hamilton Soul speculations Speculative Reason Stewart term things Thought tion true truth views words xvii xxiii xxvii
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Page 86 - Qualities thus considered in bodies are, first, such as are utterly inseparable from the body, in what estate soever it be, such as, in all the alterations and changes it suffers, all the force can be Used upon it, it constantly keeps; and such as sense constantly finds in every particle of matter which has bulk enough to be perceived, and the mind finds inseparable from every particle of matter, though less than to make itself singly be perceived by our senses...
Page 165 - Here, then, is a kind of pre-established harmony between the course of nature and the succession of our ideas; and though the powers and forces, by which the former is governed, be wholly unknown to us; yet our thoughts and conceptions have still, we find, gone on in the same train with the other works of nature.
Page 188 - For example, does it not require some pains and skill to form the general idea of a triangle (which is yet none of the most abstract, comprehensive, and difficult) • for it must be 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.
Page 45 - It is an established opinion amongst some men, that there are in the understanding certain innate principles; some primary notions, Koival (.wouu, 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 78 - I am thane of Cawdor: If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature?
Page 67 - All those sublime thoughts which tower above the clouds, and reach as high as heaven itself, take their rise and footing here : in all that great extent wherein the mind wanders in those remote speculations it may seem to be elevated with, it stirs not one jot beyond those ideas which sense or reflection have offered for its contemplation.
Page 92 - The third is separating them from all other ideas that accompany them in their real existence; this is called abstraction : and thus all its general ideas are made. This shows man's power, and its way of operation, to be much-what the same in the material and intellectual world: for the materials in both being such as he has no power over, either to make or destroy, all that man can do is either to unite them together, or to set them by one another, or wholly separate them.
Page 62 - First, our Senses, conversant about particular sensible objects, do convey into the mind several distinct perceptions of things, according to those various ways wherein those objects do affect them. And thus we come by those ideas we have of yellow, white, heat, cold, soft, hard, bitter, sweet, and all those which we call sensible qualities...
Page 64 - Thus the first years are usually employed and diverted in looking abroad. Men's business in them is to acquaint themselves with what is to be found without; and so, growing up in a constant attention to outward sensations, seldom make any considerable reflection on what passes within them till they come to be of riper years; and some scarce ever at all.
Page 95 - ... yet because we cannot conceive how they should subsist alone, nor one in another, we suppose them existing in, and supported by, some common subject; which support we denote by the name substance, though it be certain we have no clear or distinct idea of that thing we suppose a support.