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abstract idea admit answer appearance argument assertion B. H. Blackwell Barnsley belief Berkeley Berkeley's body causation cause and effect colour common sense contradiction declared deny distance doctrine Edgbaston equal Essay EUTHYPHRO experience extension external fact feel figure follows GEORGE STOCK Hume Hume's Hume's principles ideas of sense identity imagination immediate object impressions indivisible inference infinite divisibility innate innate ideas intuitive knowledge language Leicester Square Locke Locke's magnitude material substance matter means mind minimum visibile motion natural units nature necessary connexion objects of sight ordinary person ourselves Oxford parallelograms particular Pembroke College perceived perception philosophy PLATO present primary qualities principle pure space question real existence reality reason reflexion relation resemblance retina sensation sensations of sight sensible qualities SEPTUAGINT sight and touch simple ideas solidity soul spirit suppose tangible term things exist thought tion Treatise triangle truth words
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Page 12 - All those sublime thoughts which tower above the clouds, and reach as high as heaven itself, take their rise and footing here : in all that great extent wherein the mind wanders in those remote speculations it may seem to be elevated with, it stirs not one jot beyond those ideas which sense or reflection have offered for its contemplation.
Page 89 - When in broad daylight I open my eyes, it is not in my power to choose whether I shall see or no, or to determine what particular objects shall present themselves to my view; and so likewise as to the hearing and other senses; the ideas imprinted on them are not creatures of my will. There is therefore some other Will or Spirit that produces them.
Page 158 - This variety of terms, which may seem so unphilosophical, is intended only to express that act of the mind, which renders realities, or what is taken for such, more present to us than fictions, causes them to weigh more in the thought, and gives them a superior influence on the passions and imagination.
Page 129 - Let us fix our attention out of ourselves as much as possible: Let us chase our imagination to the heavens, or to the utmost limits of the universe; we never really advance a step beyond ourselves, nor can conceive any kind of existence, but those perceptions, which have appear'd in that narrow compass.
Page 25 - Thus, from the consideration of ourselves, and what we infallibly find in our own constitutions, our reason leads us to the knowledge of this certain and evident truth,— That there is an eternal, most powerful, and most knowing Being; which whether any one will please to call God, it matters not.
Page 125 - I can discover, are the windows by which light is let into this dark room : for, methinks, the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly shut from light, with only some little opening left, to let in external visible resemblances, or ideas of things without : would the pictures coming into such a dark room but stay there, and lie so orderly as to be found upon occasion, it would very much resemble the understanding of a man, in reference to all objects of sight, and the ideas of them.
Page 37 - Secondly. The power that is in any body, by reason of its insensible primary qualities, to operate after a peculiar manner on any of our senses, and thereby produce in us the different ideas of several colours, sounds, smells, tastes, &c. These are usually called sensible qualities.
Page 189 - I may venture to affirm of the rest of mankind that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity and are in a perpetual flux and movement.
Page 100 - ... the eyes of the Lord are in every place beholding the evil and the good...
Page 28 - These two, viz. intuition and demonstration, are the degrees of our knowledge; whatever comes short of one of these, with what assurance soever embraced, is but faith, or opinion, but not knowledge, at least in all general truths.