 | Philosophy, Modern - 1908 - 768 pages
...our ideas. — From all which it is evident, that the extent of our knowledge comes not only short of the reality of things, but even of the extent of...exceed them either in extent or perfection: and though these be very narrow bounds in respect of the extent of all being, and far short of what we may justly... | |
 | Columbia University. Teachers College - Education - 1910 - 200 pages
...present to sense organs not over-delicate. Thus the extent of our knowledge " comes not only short of the reality of things but even of the extent of our own ideas."34 In the hands of Voltaire and the Encyclopedists this theory became a powerful weapon wielded... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1924 - 438 pages
...our ideas.- — From all which it is evident, that the 'extent of our "Knowledge comes not only short of the reality of things, but even of the extent of our own ideas. We have the ideas of a square, a circle, and equality : and yet, perhaps, shall never be able to find... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1928 - 428 pages
...of the former. From all which it is evident, that the extent of our knowledge comes not only short of the reality of things, but even of the extent of...exceed them either in extent or perfection; and though these be very narrow bounds, in respect of the extent of all being, and Tar short o'f'^what we may... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1928 - 436 pages
...of the former. From all which it is evident, that the extent of our knowledge comes not only short of the reality of things, but even of the extent of...own ideas. -^Though our knowledge be limited to our ideaSj_and cannot exceed them either in extent or perfection; and though these be very narrow bounds,... | |
 | Lewis White Beck - History - 1966 - 332 pages
...Ideas. Sixthly, From all which it is evident, that the extent of our knowledge comes not only short of the reality of things, but even of the extent of...exceed them either in extent or perfection; and though these be very narrow bounds, in respect of the extent of All-being, and far short of what we may justly... | |
 | John W. Yolton - Philosophy - 1977 - 364 pages
...Essay, 4.3.6-9 From all which it is evident, that the extent of our knowledge comes not only short of the reality of things, but even of the extent of...exceed them either in extent or perfection; and though these be very narrow bounds, in respect of the extent of all being, and far short of what we may justly... | |
 | Peter Alexander - Science - 1985 - 362 pages
...expresses only a practical impossibility. It follows that 'the extent of our knowledge comes not only short of the reality of Things, but even of the extent of our own Ideas' (IV.iii.6). I take this to mean that there are truths about the reality and even about the relations... | |
 | Henry Sussman - Philosophy - 1997 - 338 pages
...familiar with the outlines of this religious disputation. The extent of our knowledoe comes not only short of the reality of things, but even of the extent of...exceed them either in extent or perfection; and though these be very narrow bounds, in respect of the extent of All-Being, and far short of what we may imagine... | |
 | Peter A. Morton - Philosophy - 1996 - 522 pages
...the former. §6. From all which it is evident, that the extent of our Knowledge comes not only short of the reality of Things, but even of the extent of...exceed them either in extent, or perfection; and though these be very narrow bounds, in respect of the extent of Allbeing, and far short of what we may justly... | |
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From all which it is evident, that the extent of our knowledge comes not only short of the reality of things, but even of the extent of our own ideas. 
