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... analytic propositions . Locke calls them ' trifling propositions ' . He distinguishes two types : ( i ) ' purely identical propositions ' in which a term is predicated of itself like ' red is red ' ; ( ii ) the second type is a proposition ...
... analytic propositions . Locke calls them ' trifling propositions ' . He distinguishes two types : ( i ) ' purely identical propositions ' in which a term is predicated of itself like ' red is red ' ; ( ii ) the second type is a proposition ...
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... analytic proposition : ( 2 ) ' Nothing can no more produce any real being , than it can be equal to two right angles ' . Of course , to say that ' nothing cannot produce any real being ' is merely an unusual way of saying that anything ...
... analytic proposition : ( 2 ) ' Nothing can no more produce any real being , than it can be equal to two right angles ' . Of course , to say that ' nothing cannot produce any real being ' is merely an unusual way of saying that anything ...
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... propositions on which the argument depends : ( a ) If anything has a beginning it must have a cause ; ( b ) if A is the total cause of B , any property of B must be a property of A. These propositions are not analytic or self - evident ...
... propositions on which the argument depends : ( a ) If anything has a beginning it must have a cause ; ( b ) if A is the total cause of B , any property of B must be a property of A. These propositions are not analytic or self - evident ...
Contents
Introduction | 4 |
The Aim and Method of Lockes Theory of Knowledge | 23 |
Ideas and Experience | 41 |
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