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... things is not free from vagueness . Men and animals , books and tables are clearly things . But it would be difficult to decide , for instance , if a cloud is a ' thing ' or if a piece of coal is one thing when it is in one piece and ...
... things is not free from vagueness . Men and animals , books and tables are clearly things . But it would be difficult to decide , for instance , if a cloud is a ' thing ' or if a piece of coal is one thing when it is in one piece and ...
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... things is based on his representative theory of knowledge . As words are sounds arbitrarily selected to stand for certain designata , the things , qualities or relations which they designate , the designata in question must be things ...
... things is based on his representative theory of knowledge . As words are sounds arbitrarily selected to stand for certain designata , the things , qualities or relations which they designate , the designata in question must be things ...
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... things and their properties . We see that a particular thing may share any or all of its properties with another thing except the relational properties which give it its position in space and time . No two things can occupy the same ...
... things and their properties . We see that a particular thing may share any or all of its properties with another thing except the relational properties which give it its position in space and time . No two things can occupy the same ...
Contents
Introduction | 8 |
The Aim and Method of Lockes Theory | 23 |
Ideas and Experience | 41 |
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