Essays on the Powers of the Human Mind: To which are Added, An Essay on Quantity, and An Analysis of Aristotle's Logic ...T. Tegg, 1827 - 676 pàgines |
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... According to the philosophical meaning of the word idea , it does not signify that act of the mind which we call thought or conception , but some object of thought . Ideas , according to Mr. Locke ( whose very frequent use of this word ...
... According to the philosophical meaning of the word idea , it does not signify that act of the mind which we call thought or conception , but some object of thought . Ideas , according to Mr. Locke ( whose very frequent use of this word ...
Pàgina 9
... according to which they were made : And , Thirdly , An efficient cause , the Deity , who made them . The mind of man , in order to its being fitted for the contemplation of these eternal ideas , must undergo a certain purification , and ...
... according to which they were made : And , Thirdly , An efficient cause , the Deity , who made them . The mind of man , in order to its being fitted for the contemplation of these eternal ideas , must undergo a certain purification , and ...
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... according to the tenses of past , present , and future ; we find ad- verbs , prepositions , and conjunctions . There are general rules of syntax common to all languages . This uniformity in the structure of language shows a certain ...
... according to the tenses of past , present , and future ; we find ad- verbs , prepositions , and conjunctions . There are general rules of syntax common to all languages . This uniformity in the structure of language shows a certain ...
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... according as the things compared are more or less similar in their nature . But it ought to be ob- served , that , as this kind of reasoning can afford only probable evidence at best ; so , unless great caution be used , we are apt to ...
... according as the things compared are more or less similar in their nature . But it ought to be ob- served , that , as this kind of reasoning can afford only probable evidence at best ; so , unless great caution be used , we are apt to ...
Pàgina 33
... of myself , and the idea of thought , for they are the terms of the proposition I think . According to this account then , D first , I have the idea of myself , and CHAP . VII . ] 33 DIVISION OF THE POWERS OF THE MIND .
... of myself , and the idea of thought , for they are the terms of the proposition I think . According to this account then , D first , I have the idea of myself , and CHAP . VII . ] 33 DIVISION OF THE POWERS OF THE MIND .
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 533 - My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
Pàgina 528 - And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her and he did eat. And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked, and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons.
Pàgina 250 - A * great philosopher has disputed the received opinion in this particular, and has asserted that all general ideas are nothing but particular ones annexed to a certain term which gives them a more extensive signification and makes them recall upon occasion other individuals which are similar to them. As I look upon this to be one of the greatest and most valuable discoveries that has been made of late years in the republic of letters, I shall here endeavor to confirm it by some arguments which I...
Pàgina 252 - Now, if we will annex a meaning to our words, and speak only of what we can conceive, I believe we shall acknowledge that an idea which, considered in itself, is particular, becomes general by being made to represent or stand for all other particular ideas of the SAME SORT.
Pàgina 74 - It being that term which, I think, serves best to stand for whatsoever is the object of the understanding when a man thinks: I have used it to express whatever is meant by phantasm, notion, species, or whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking; and I could not avoid frequently using it.
Pàgina 669 - reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office, than to serve and obey them.
Pàgina 92 - All our ideas, sensations, notions, or the things which we perceive, by whatsoever names they may be distinguished, are visibly inactive — there is nothing of power or agency included in them. So that one idea or object of thought cannot produce or make any alteration in another.
Pàgina 127 - Whatsoever the mind perceives in itself, or is the immediate object of perception, thought, or understanding, that I call idea; and the power to produce any idea in our mind, I call quality of the subject wherein that power is.
Pàgina 254 - ... all general ideas are nothing but particular ones annexed to a certain term, which gives them a more extensive signification, and makes them recall upon occasion other individuals, which are similar to them. As I look upon this to be one of the greatest and most valuable discoveries that has been made of late years in the republic of letters...
Pàgina 455 - I think evident, that we find in ourselves a power to begin or forbear, continue or end, several actions of our minds and motions of our bodies, barely by a thought or preference of the mind ordering, or, as it were, commanding the doing or not doing such or such a particular action.