A syllabus of Locke's Essay on the human understanding1812 |
Συχνά εμφανιζόμενοι όροι και φράσεις
abstract idea action agree agreement or disagreement Analysis of Dr archetypes argumentum assent Bourdaloue capable cause certainty chuse civil law clear Co-existence Complex ideas compounded confused connection considered consists delight Demonstrative knowledge determinate idea distinct duration eternity evil existence of things extension faculty Faith finite gold grounds of probability idea of infinity ideas of mixed Ideas of substances ideas they stand infinite innate intermediate ideas intuitive Intuitive knowledge judgment ledge liberty memory men's ideas mind mixed modes Moral motion names of simple nominal essence particular perceive perception Pleasure and pain present primary qualities produce proofs proposition qualities of bodies real essences real existence reason reference relation rence revelation secondary qualities Secondly sensation and reflection sense sensible shews signified simple ideas simple modes solid sorts space species spirit substratum testimony thereby thinking Thirdly thought tion truth uneasiness universal proposition volition whereof words wrong measures
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Σελίδα 26 - I think we may say, the sorting of them under names, is the workmanship of the understanding, taking occasion from the similitude it observes amongst them, to make abstract general ideas, and set them up in the mind, with names annexed to them, as patterns or forms...
Σελίδα 11 - For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another, ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude: and by affinity to take one thing for another.
Σελίδα 26 - That sacred hour, when stealing from the noise Of care and envy, sweet remembrance soothes, With virtue's kindest looks, his aching breast, And turns his tears to rapture.
Σελίδα 6 - When the understanding is once stored with these simple ideas, it has the power to repeat, compare, and unite them, even to an almost infinite variety, and so can make at pleasure new complex ideas. But it is not in the power of the most exalted wit or enlarged understanding, by any quickness or variety of thought, to invent or frame one new simple idea in the mind, not taken in by the ways before mentioned ; nor can any force of the understanding destroy those that are there...
Σελίδα 5 - Our observation, employed either about external sensible objects, or about the internal operations of our minds, perceived and reflected on by ourselves, is that which supplies our understandings with all the materials of thinking. These two are the fountains of knowledge, from whence all the ideas we have, or can naturally have, do spring.
Σελίδα 9 - When we set before our eyes a round globe of any uniform colour, vg gold, alabaster, or jet, it is certain that the idea thereby imprinted in our mind is of a flat circle variously shadowed, with several degrees of light and brightness coming to our eyes.
Σελίδα 25 - Finite spirits having had each its determinate time and place of beginning to exist, the relation to that time and place will always determine to each of them its identity, as long as it exists.
Σελίδα 20 - So that liberty is not an idea belonging to volition, or preferring ; but to the person having the power of doing, or forbearing to do, according as the mind shall choose or direct.