The Works of John Locke, Volume 4Thomas Tegg, 1823 - Philosophy |
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... deny or doubt that there is in the world any such thing as substance , that your lordship will acquit me of , when your lordship looks again into that chapter , which you have cited more than once , where your Bishop of Worcester . 5.
... deny or doubt that there is in the world any such thing as substance , that your lordship will acquit me of , when your lordship looks again into that chapter , which you have cited more than once , where your Bishop of Worcester . 5.
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... denied that these complex ideas are the objects of men's thoughts or rea- sonings , which he is far enough from . All that he has said about sensation and reflection is , that all our simple ideas are received by them , and that these ...
... denied that these complex ideas are the objects of men's thoughts or rea- sonings , which he is far enough from . All that he has said about sensation and reflection is , that all our simple ideas are received by them , and that these ...
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... deny the general idea of substance to be made by abstraction ; nor any that say , " it is made by a complication of many simple ideas together . " But speaking in that place of the ideas of distinct substances , such as man , horse ...
... deny the general idea of substance to be made by abstraction ; nor any that say , " it is made by a complication of many simple ideas together . " But speaking in that place of the ideas of distinct substances , such as man , horse ...
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... denied , that the mind could frame to itself ideas of relation , but have showed the quite contrary in my chapters about relation . But because a relation cannot be founded in nothing , or be the relation of nothing , and the thing here ...
... denied , that the mind could frame to itself ideas of relation , but have showed the quite contrary in my chapters about relation . But because a relation cannot be founded in nothing , or be the relation of nothing , and the thing here ...
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... denies : nor can any body deny it , who will not say , that the general abstract idea which he has in his mind of a sort or species of animals that he calls man , ought not to have that general name man applied to it : for that is all ...
... denies : nor can any body deny it , who will not say , that the general abstract idea which he has in his mind of a sort or species of animals that he calls man , ought not to have that general name man applied to it : for that is all ...
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Page 472 - As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.
Page 287 - For we must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
Page 35 - For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts ; even one thing befalleth them : as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath ; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast : for all is vanity. All go unto one place ; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Page 79 - Words become general by being made the signs of general ideas; and ideas become general by separating from them the circumstances of time and place and any other ideas that may determine them to this or that particular existence.
Page 291 - How are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come? Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die, "And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain: But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
Page 53 - I judge it as certain and clear a truth as can any where be delivered, that "the invisible things of God are clearly seen from the creation of the world, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead.
Page 317 - I think, is a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing, in different times and places...
Page 20 - These, when we have taken a full survey of them, and their several modes, [combinations, and relations,] we shall find to contain all our whole stock of ideas; and that we have nothing in our minds which did not come in one of these two ways.
Page 423 - ... 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...
Page 448 - The gravitation of matter towards matter, by ways unconceivable to me, is not only a demonstration that God can, if he pleases, put into bodies powers, and ways of operation, above what can be derived from our idea of body, or can be explained by what we know of matter, but also an unquestionable, and every where visible instance, that he has done so. And therefore in the next edition of my book, I will take care to have that passage rectified.