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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: With Thoughts on the Conduct of the ... - Page 47
by John Locke - 1801 - 308 pages
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The works of John Locke. To which is added the life of the author ..., Volume 1

John Locke - 1801 - 398 pages
...believe it will appear, that all the certainty of general truths a man has, lies in nothing else. §. 3. It is evident, the mind knows not things immediately,...has of them. Our knowledge therefore is real,, only so far as there is a conformity between our ideas and the reality of things. But what shall be here...
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: With Thoughts on the Conduct of ...

John Locke - 1801 - 950 pages
...of general truths a man has, lies in nothing elfe. § 3. Anfw. Notfo, wbfre Ideas agree with Things. IT is evident, the mind knows not things immediately,...but only by the intervention of the ideas it has of Chap. 4. Reality of Knowledge, 45 them. Our knowledge therefore is real, only fo far as there is a...
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Essays on the Powers of the Human Mind, Volume 2

Thomas Reid - 1803 - 676 pages
...Philofophers have given them the name of ideas. " It is evi" dent," fays Mr LOCKE, book 4. ch. 4. " the " mind knows not things immediately, but only...by the intervention of the ideas it has of " them." And in the fame paragraph he puts this queftion : " How mall the mind, when it " perceives nothing...
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Volume 2

John Locke - 1805 - 520 pages
...believe it. will appear, that all the certainty of general truths a man has, lies in nothing else. §. 3. It is evident the mind knows not things immediately,...has of them. Our knowledge therefore is real, only so far as there is a conformity between our ideas and the? reality of things. But what shall be here...
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Volume 2

John Locke - 1805 - 508 pages
...believe it will appear, that all the certainty of general truths a man has, lies in nothing else. §, J. It is evident the mind knows not things immediately, but only by the intervention of the ideas itlias of them. Our knowledge therefore is real, only so far as there is a conformity between our ideas...
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Elements of Intellectual Philosophy: Or, An Analysis of the Powers of the ...

Robert Eden Scott - 1805 - 524 pages
...others. ' — * It is evident, ' he fays again, * the mind knows not things imme* diately, * diately, but only by the intervention of the * ideas it has of them. ' Berkeley, indeed, infers the reality of ideas from this circumftance, that magnitude and figure,...
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Volume 2

John Locke - 1806 - 394 pages
...general truths a man has, lies in nothing elfe. , . § 3. Anf. Not fo, ivkere Ideas agree with Things. IT is evident, the mind knows not things immediately, but only by the intervention of. the {dear it has of them. Our knowledge therefore is rul, only fo far as there is a conformity between...
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An Analytical Abridgment of Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding

John Locke - 1808 - 346 pages
...greater thau bare imagination: and that it affords us all the certainty we can have of general Truths. The mind knows not things immediately, but only by the intervention of its ideas : our knowledge therefore is only real, so far as there is a conformity between our ideas...
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Volume 2

John Locke - 1813 - 448 pages
...in nothing else. § 3. Ans. A'ot so where ideas agree with things. IT is evident, the mind knpws^not things immediately, but only by the intervention of...has of them. Our knowledge therefore is real, only so far as there is a conformity between our ideas and the reality of things. But what shall be here...
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The Works of Thomas Reid ...: With Account of His Life and Writings, Volume 3

Thomas Reid - 1815 - 434 pages
...philosophers have given them the name of ideas. « It is evident," says Mr. Locke, book 4. chapter 4. " the mind knows not things immediately, but only by the intervention of the ideas it has of them." And in the same paragraph he puts this question : " How shall the mind when it perccives nothing but...
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