The Works of John Locke, Volume 4Thomas Tegg, 1823 |
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... certainty only in clear and distinct ideas , but in the clear and visible connexion of any of our ideas , be those ideas what they will ; as will appear to any one who will look into B. iv . c . 4. § 18 , and B. iv . c . 6. § 3 , of my ...
... certainty only in clear and distinct ideas , but in the clear and visible connexion of any of our ideas , be those ideas what they will ; as will appear to any one who will look into B. iv . c . 4. § 18 , and B. iv . c . 6. § 3 , of my ...
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... certainty without them , and where it is confessed we cannot have them , as about substance ; then these can- -not ... certainty of reason ? " I answer ; I think it is a way to bring us to a cer- tainty in these things which I have ...
... certainty without them , and where it is confessed we cannot have them , as about substance ; then these can- -not ... certainty of reason ? " I answer ; I think it is a way to bring us to a cer- tainty in these things which I have ...
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... certainty ; unless , at the same time , your lordship shall show us another way that will bring us to a certainty in those points , wherein this way of ideas failed . If your lord- ship , or anybody else , will show me a better way to a ...
... certainty ; unless , at the same time , your lordship shall show us another way that will bring us to a certainty in those points , wherein this way of ideas failed . If your lord- ship , or anybody else , will show me a better way to a ...
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... certainty . How can it be understood but that I am one of those persons , that " at the same time assert the absolute necessity of these ideas to our knowledge , and declare that we may have certain knowledge without them ? " Though ...
... certainty . How can it be understood but that I am one of those persons , that " at the same time assert the absolute necessity of these ideas to our knowledge , and declare that we may have certain knowledge without them ? " Though ...
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... certainty ? And he resolved it into this , that he had a clear and distinct perception of it ; and from hence he formed this general rule , that what we had a clear and distinct perception of was true . Which in reason ought to go no ...
... certainty ? And he resolved it into this , that he had a clear and distinct perception of it ; and from hence he formed this general rule , that what we had a clear and distinct perception of was true . Which in reason ought to go no ...
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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 307 - 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 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 311 - 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 492 - 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 316 - 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 : 38 But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
Page 395 - If any one asks me what this solidity is? I send him to his senses to inform him : let him put a flint or a foot-ball between his hands, and then endeavour to join them, and he will know.
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 337 - 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 14 - 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.