| JOHN MURRAY - 1852 - 786 pages
...consists, we must consider what person stands for; OF IDENTITY AND DIVERSITY. 171 which, I think, is—a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection,...itself, the same thinking thing, in different times and places—which it does only by that Consciousness which is inseparable from thinking, and seems to... | |
| John Locke - 1853 - 588 pages
...Personal identity. — This being premised, to find wherein personal identity consists, we must consider what " person," stands for ; which, I think, is a...consciousness which is inseparable from thinking, and it seems to me essential to it : it being impossible for any one to perceive, without perceiving that... | |
| Spectator The - 1853 - 554 pages
...compose personal identity. Mr. Locke, after having premised that the word person properly signifies a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, concludes, that it is consciousness alone, and not identity of substance, which makes this personal... | |
| John Locke - 1854 - 560 pages
...is a thinking intelligentTieing, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itj?elf, the same thinking thing, in different times" and places...does only by that consciousness which is inseparable vfrom thinking, and, as it seems to me, essential to.it: it /being impossible for any one to perceive... | |
| Noah Worcester - 1854 - 254 pages
...Being to be the same, p. 350. Reply to Dr. "Waterland's Defence, 352. Mr. Locke defines person to be a thinking, intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself. [Doddridge says, " the word person commonly signifies one single, intelligent, vol. untary agent, or... | |
| 1855 - 528 pages
...compose personal identity. ' Mr. Locke, after having premised that the word person properly signifies a thinking intelligent being that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, concludes, that it is consciousness alone, and not an identity of substance, which makes this personal... | |
| George S. Measom - 1856 - 266 pages
...to compose personal identity. Locke, after having premised that the word person properly signifies a thinking, intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, contends that it is consciousness alone, and not an identity of substance, which this personal identity... | |
| Thomas Ebenezer Webb - 1857 - 214 pages
...Theory of Personal Identity ? " To find wherein Personal Identity consists," he says, " we must consider what Person stands for, which, I think, is a thinking,...same thinking thing, in different times and places" (n. xxvii. 9). Now how is it that a thinking thing can consider itself as itself, the same in different... | |
| Thomas Ebenezer Webb - 1857 - 218 pages
...Theory of Personal Identity ? " To find wherein Personal Identity consists," he says, " we must consider what Person stands for, which, I think, is a thinking,...same thinking thing, in different times and places" (n. xxvii. 9). Now how is it that a thinking thing can consider itself as itself, the same in different... | |
| George Combe - 1857 - 348 pages
...defines a " person" to be " a thinking, intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and considers itself as itself, the same thinking thing in different times and places." In this sense of the word our intellectual faculties lead us to assign a personal character to the... | |
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