 | Henry Allon - 1883 - 610 pàgines
...Were this possible, language and metaphysics would be alike gainers. The task which Locke set himself was ' to inquire into the original, certainty, and extent of human knowledge.' This inquiry he divides into two branches. First, an examination of 'the original of those ideas, notions,... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1889 - 516 pàgines
...much ground, though worked out in a different spirit and with a very dissimilar method. His object was " to inquire into the original, certainty, and extent of human knowledge," not by logical deduction from a few selfevident principles, but by careful observation and patient... | |
 | John Locke - 1890 - 240 pàgines
...short account of its general design and execution. The purpose, then, with which the Essay was written was "to inquire into the original, certainty, and...knowledge, together with the grounds and degrees of belief, B opinion, and assent." This is sought to be accomplished by a discussion of the subject under four... | |
 | Alexander Campbell Fraser - 1890 - 330 pàgines
...the other." Accordingly, the design of the ' Essay ' takes the form of an inquiry into the "origin, certainty, and extent of human knowledge; together...grounds and degrees of belief, opinion, and assent." Locke wanted to make a faithful report, based upon what he found when following what he calls the "... | |
 | Alexander Campbell Fraser - 1890 - 324 pàgines
...the design of the ' Essay ' takes the form of an inquiry into the "origin, certainty, and'extentof human knowledge; together with the grounds and degrees of belief, opinion, and assent." Locke wanted to make a faithful report, based upon what he found when following what he calls the "... | |
 | John Locke - 1891 - 176 pàgines
...powers, and see to what things they were adapted. 2. Design. — This, therefore, being my purpose, to inquire into the original, certainty, and extent...grounds and degrees of belief, opinion and assent, I shall not at present meddle with the physical consideration of the mind, or trouble myself to examine... | |
 | George Trumbull Ladd - 1891 - 472 pàgines
...philosophical treatise, "Essay concerning Human Understanding," he defines (i. 1, 2, and 3) as the inquiry " into the original, certainty, and extent of human...grounds and degrees of belief, opinion, and assent." But in the same treatise Locke also calls physics — that is, "the knowledge of things as they are... | |
 | James Fitzjames Stephen - 1892 - 440 pàgines
...Locke was fifty-seven years of age. Its purpose is happily expressed in the first page, as being ' to inquire into the original certainty and extent...grounds and degrees of belief, opinion, and assent.' It may be convenient to say a word or two as to its present scope, well known as it is. The First Book,... | |
 | William Leslie Davidson - 1893 - 528 pàgines
...opening paragraph, he lays down his object. " This, therefore, being my purpose," he says (I., 1, § 2), "to inquire into the original, certainty, and extent...grounds and degrees of belief, opinion, and assent, I shall not at present meddle with the physical consideration of the mind, or trouble myself to examine... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 126 pàgines
...culture of the ancient world. 2 John Locke (1632-1704), English philosopher and theologian. His aim was to inquire into the original certainty and extent of human knowledge. His most famous work is his Essay on the Human Understanding. which Bacon,1 have given, forgetful that... | |
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This therefore being my purpose, to inquire into the original, certainty, and extent of human knowledge, together with the grounds and degrees of belief, opinion, and assent... 
