 | John Locke - Philosophy - 1722 - 640 pages
...Square, and certainly know that it is fo. We have the ideas of Matter and Thinking, but poffibly fliall never be able to know, whether any mere material Being thinks, or no ; it being impoffible for us, by the Contemplation of our own Ideas, without Revelation, to difcover,... | |
 | Andrew Baxter - Philosophy - 1745 - 446 pages
...3. feet. 6. in the Note at thefe words, We have the ideas of matter and thinking, but pofJibly Jhall never be able to know, whether any mere material being thinks, or not; it being impojjible for us, by the contemplation of our own ideas, without revelation, to difcover... | |
 | Jean-Baptiste de Boyer Argens (marquis d') - Antisemitism - 1766 - 390 pages
...Effence of the human Soul. " We have, " fays he, the Ideas of Matter and Thinking, but " poffibly fhall never be able to know whether any •*' mere material Being thinks or no, it being im" poflible for us, by the Contemplation of our own " Ideas, without Revelation, to difcover... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - Metaphysics - 1776 - 410 pages
...to know certainly that it *' is fo. We have the ideas of matter and think" ing ; but pofilbly fhall never be able to know " whether any mere material being thinks or no." In like manner, and far more ftrongly, it may be PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS. 357 faid, that, fuppofing us to have ideas of divine wifdom,... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - Philosophy - 1777 - 424 pages
...together his moft ftriking arguments : " We have ideas of matter and thinking, but poffibly " fhall never be able to know whether any mere material " being thinks or no; it being impoflible for us, by the " contemplation of our own ideas, Without revelation, to " difcover... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1796 - 554 pages
...fquare, and certainly know that it is fo. We have the ideas of matter and thinking*, but poffibly fliall never be able to know, whether any mere material being thinks, or no ; it being im— * Againft that aflertion of Mr. Locke, that poflibly we (hall never be able to know... | |
 | John Locke - 1801 - 398 pages
...to a square, and certainly X 2 know know that it is so. We have the ideas of matter and thinking, * but possibly shall never be able to know, whether any mere material being thinks, or no; it being ha* Against that assertion of Mr. Locke, that possibly we shall never be able to know whether... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1801 - 986 pages
...fquare, and certainly know that it is fo. We have the ideas of matter and thinking, but poflibly (hall never be able to know, whether any mere material being thinks, or no ; it being impoflible fo* us, by the contemplation of our own ideas, without revelation, to difcover,... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1805 - 508 pages
...equal to a square, and certainly know that it is so. We have the ideas of matter and thinking*, hut possibly shall never be able to know, whether any mere material being thinks, or no; it being im* Against that assertion of Mr. Locke, that possibly we shall never be able to know whether... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1813 - 448 pages
...equal to a square, and certainly know that it is so. We have the ideas of matter and thinking, ( 1 } but possibly shall never be able to know, whether any mere material being thinks, or no ; it being impossible for us, by the cort(1) Againft that ajTertion of Mr. Locke, that pofiibly we... | |
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We have the ideas of matter and thinking, but possibly shall never be able to know whether any mere material being thinks or no;* it being impossible for us, by the contemplation of our own ideas, without revelation, to discover whether Omnipotency has... 
