The Works of John Locke, Volume 4Thomas Tegg, 1823 - Philosophy |
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... individual substance , which cannot be understood without particular modes and properties ; but the general substance or nature of man , abstractedly from all the circumstances of person . " " Here your lordship makes these terms ...
... individual substance , which cannot be understood without particular modes and properties ; but the general substance or nature of man , abstractedly from all the circumstances of person . " " Here your lordship makes these terms ...
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... individuals of that species . By general substance here , I suppose , your lordship means the general idea of substance : and that which induces me to take the liberty to suppose so is , that I think your lordship is here discoursing of ...
... individuals of that species . By general substance here , I suppose , your lordship means the general idea of substance : and that which induces me to take the liberty to suppose so is , that I think your lordship is here discoursing of ...
Page 72
... individuals , as the nature of a man is equally in Peter , James , and John ; and this + B. ii . c . 8. § 8 . B. i . c . 1. § 8 . is the common nature , with a particular subsistence -proper 72 Mr. Locke's Letter to the.
... individuals , as the nature of a man is equally in Peter , James , and John ; and this + B. ii . c . 8. § 8 . B. i . c . 1. § 8 . is the common nature , with a particular subsistence -proper 72 Mr. Locke's Letter to the.
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... individual persons ; and then it makes an entire notion of itself . For however the same nature may be in different individuals , yet the nature itself remains one and the same ; which appears from this evident reason , that otherwise ...
... individual persons ; and then it makes an entire notion of itself . For however the same nature may be in different individuals , yet the nature itself remains one and the same ; which appears from this evident reason , that otherwise ...
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... individual or particular being is truly said to have the nature of a man , or the nature of a man to be in him ... individuals ; i . e . nobody changes his idea of a man , when he says Peter is a man , from that idea which he makes ...
... individual or particular being is truly said to have the nature of a man , or the nature of a man to be in him ... individuals ; i . e . nobody changes his idea of a man , when he says Peter is a man , from that idea which he makes ...
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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.