Metaphysical Essays: Containing the Principles and Fundamental Objects of that ScienceT. Bensley, 1809 - 506 Seiten |
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abfolutely abfurd abſtract afferts affociation alfo alſo arifing becauſe betwixt body cafe called caufe cauſe ceived circumſtances colour confequently confidered confifts connexion conſciouſneſs degree denotes difcerned diftinct diſtance diſtinguiſh Divine effential exift exiſtence extenfion faid falfe fame feems feen fenfe fenfible fhall fhewn fight fignified figns figure fimilar fince finite firſt folid fome fomething fpace fpecies fpirit ftate ftill fubftance fubject fucceffion fuch fufficient fuggeft fuppofed fyftem Hence himſelf ideas impoffible infinite inftance itſelf jects juſt leaſt lefs Locke mind moſt muſt nature neceffarily neceffary neceffity nexion notion obferved objects occafional otherwife pain perceived perception perfon phyfical pleaſure poffible pofition prefent properties propofition qualities reaſon Reid relation reprefent reſpect ſay SECT ſenſations ſenſe ſhould ſpace ſtate ſtill ſubſtance ſuch ſuggeſt ſuppoſed tangible fenfations thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe tion truth underſtand univerfal uſed viſible volition whofe whoſe words
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 190 - ... pretend to explain the perception of distance, are themselves not at all perceived; nor are they in truth ever thought of by those unskilful in optics.
Seite 203 - No sooner do we hear the words of a familiar language pronounced in our ears, but the ideas corresponding thereto present themselves to our minds; in the very same instant the sound and the meaning enter the understanding: so closely are they united, that it is not in our power to keep out the one, except we exclude the other also. We even act in all respects as if we heard the very thoughts themselves.
Seite 42 - ... fleeting particles of matter united to it, will find it hard to make an embryo, one of years, mad and sober, the same man, by any supposition, that will not make it possible for Seth, Ismael, Socrates, Pilate, St. Austin, and Caesar Borgia, to be the same man.
Seite 217 - I think, usual in any of our ideas, but those received by sight ; because sight, the most comprehensive of all our senses, conveying to our minds the ideas of light and colours, which are peculiar only to that sense; and also the far different ideas of space, figure, and motion...
Seite 91 - ... water cannot ascend, yet men never say it wants the liberty to ascend, but the faculty or power, because the impediment is in the nature of the water, and intrinsical. So also we say, he that is tied wants the liberty to go, because the impediment is not in him, but in his bands ; whereas we say not so of him that is sick or lame, because the impediment is in himself.
Seite 404 - For the visible marks of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of the creation, that a rational creature, who will but seriously reflect on them, cannot miss the discovery of a Deity...
Seite 191 - And, first, it is certain by experience, that when we look at a near object with both eyes, according as it approaches or recedes from us, we alter the disposition of our eyes, by lessening or widening the interval between the pupils. This disposition or turn of the eyes is attended with a sensation, which seems to me to be that which in this case brings the idea of greater or lesser distance into the mind.
Seite 218 - Suppose a man born blind, and now adult, and taught by his touch to distinguish between a cube and a sphere of the same metal, and nighly of the same bigness, so as to tell, when he felt one and the other, which is the cube, which the sphere. Suppose then the cube and sphere placed on a table, and the blind man to be made to see: quaere, whether by his sight, before he touched them, he could now distinguish and tell which is the globe, which the cube?
Seite 92 - So that the idea of liberty is the idea of a power in any agent to do or forbear any particular action, according to the determination or thought of the mind, whereby either of them is preferred to the other...
Seite 50 - ... is still the same oak; and a colt grown up to a horse, sometimes fat, sometimes lean, is all the while the same horse; though, in both these cases, there may be a manifest...