 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1905 - 424 pages
...Creator. For [I see no contradiction in it, that the first eternal thinking Being, or Omnipotent Spirit, should, if he pleased, give to certain systems of...fit, some degrees of sense, perception and thought: though, as I think I have proved (lib. iv. chap. x. sec. 14, &c.), it is no less than a contradiction... | |
 | John Pickett Turner - Idealism - 1910 - 148 pages
...why their hypothesis is acceptable as it does with materialists to show that theirs is. "For I see no contradiction in it, that the first Eternal thinking...fit, some degrees of sense, perception and thought," (') but, he significantly adds, "Though, as I think I have proved, it is no less than a contradiction... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1928 - 436 pages
...cannot be in any created being, but merely by the good pleasure and bounty of the Creator.1 For I see no contradiction in it, that the first eternal thinking...fit, some degrees of sense, perception, and thought: though, as I think, it is no less than a contradiction to suppose matter (which is evidently in its... | |
 | American literature - 1858 - 912 pages
...pleasure and bounty of the Creator. For I see no contradiction in it, that the first thinking eternal Being should, if he pleased, give to certain systems...fit, some degrees of sense, perception, and thought." f With euch notions of the nature of though», as a kind of mechanical contrivance, that * A'jU'ii... | |
 | Lewis White Beck - History - 1966 - 332 pages
...but possibly shall never be able to know whether any mere material being thinks or no ... for I see no contradiction in it that the first eternal thinking...senseless matter, put together as he thinks fit, some degree of sense, perception, and thought. . . . Chapter IV.-ON MATHEMATICAL AND MORAL KNOWLEDGE 5.... | |
 | Alan Holland - History - 1985 - 364 pages
...disposed, a thinking immaterial Substance ... His reason for thinking this is given as follows: For I see no contradiction in it, that the first eternal thinking...fit, some degrees of sense, perception, and thought. Looked at in the context of our present problem, certain phrases in these passages which might easily... | |
 | Robert J. Richards - Psychology - 1987 - 719 pages
...cannot be in any created being but merely by the good pleasure and bounty of the Creator. For I see no contradiction in it that the first eternal thinking...fit, some degrees of sense, perception, and thought." Robert Chambers, who also proposed a theory of species transmutation with descent, did make explicit... | |
 | 216 pages
...Substances the Almighty has been pleased to give that power, I see no contradiction in it," he says, " that the first eternal thinking Being should, if he...senseless Matter, put together as he thinks fit, some degree of Sense, Perception, and Thought" (iv. iii. 6). So far, therefore, is Locke from having recourse... | |
 | Vere Claiborne Chappell - Philosophy - 1994 - 354 pages
...material Being thinks, or no" (E IV.iii.6: 540). This immediately led Locke to the observation that he saw "no contradiction in it, that the first eternal thinking...if he pleased, give to certain Systems of created sensless matter, put together as he thinks fit, some degrees of sense, perception, and thought" (E... | |
 | Cary J. Nederman, John Christian Laursen - History - 1996 - 268 pages
...But this assimilation is questioned by Locke's inability, confessed in book 4 of this work, to see "a contradiction in it, that the first eternal thinking...if he pleased, give to certain Systems of created sensless matter, put together as he thinks fit, some degrees of sense, perception, and thought" (p.... | |
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... since we know not wherein thinking consists, nor to what sort of substances the Almighty has been pleased to give that power, which cannot be in any created being, but merely by the good pleasure and bounty of the Creator. For I see no contradiction... 
