A Search of Truth in the Science of the Human Mind, Part First, Volum 1S. Potter&Company, 1822 - 561 sider |
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Side 24
... impressions of this kind in the formation of the active verbs of all languages , in which actions are ascribed to objects incapable of volition , as when the sun is said to give light to the earth , the stream to overflow its banks ...
... impressions of this kind in the formation of the active verbs of all languages , in which actions are ascribed to objects incapable of volition , as when the sun is said to give light to the earth , the stream to overflow its banks ...
Side 26
... impressions of the out- ward objects of the senses , and sometimes by the determina- tion of its own choice ; and concluding from what it hath so constantly observed to have been , that the like changes will for the future be made in ...
... impressions of the out- ward objects of the senses , and sometimes by the determina- tion of its own choice ; and concluding from what it hath so constantly observed to have been , that the like changes will for the future be made in ...
Side 31
... impressions and ideas , the latter be- ing regarded merely as the faint images or copies of the for- mer ; and to this arbitrary division of our perceptions , alike unknown to the schools and to nature , he adverts in laying the ...
... impressions and ideas , the latter be- ing regarded merely as the faint images or copies of the for- mer ; and to this arbitrary division of our perceptions , alike unknown to the schools and to nature , he adverts in laying the ...
Side 32
... impression from which it arises . Let us , there- fore , cast our eyes on any two objects which we call cause and effect , and turn them on all sides in order to find that impression which produces an idea of such prodigious conse ...
... impression from which it arises . Let us , there- fore , cast our eyes on any two objects which we call cause and effect , and turn them on all sides in order to find that impression which produces an idea of such prodigious conse ...
Side 38
... impression to which that idea can be traced ; and if moreover , we have no reason to believe , either from intuition , demonstration or ex- perience , that there is any efficiency in any one thing to pro- duce another ; and , still ...
... impression to which that idea can be traced ; and if moreover , we have no reason to believe , either from intuition , demonstration or ex- perience , that there is any efficiency in any one thing to pro- duce another ; and , still ...
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A Search of Truth in the Science of the Human Mind, Part First, Volum 1 Frederick Beasley Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1822 |
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Side 209 - IT is evident to any one who takes a survey of the objects of human knowledge, that they are either ideas actually imprinted on the senses; or else such as are perceived by attending to the passions and operations of the mind; or lastly, ideas formed by help of memory and imagination— either compounding, dividing, or barely representing those originally perceived in the aforesaid ways.
Side 215 - It is indeed an opinion strangely prevailing amongst men, that houses, mountains, rivers, and in a word all sensible objects have an existence natural or real, distinct from their being perceived by the understanding. But with how great an assurance and acquiescence soever this principle may be entertained in the world; yet whoever shall find in his heart to call it in question, may, if I mistake not, perceive it to involve a manifest contradiction. For what are the forementioned objects but the...
Side 276 - I think, is a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing, in different times and places; which it does only by that consciousness which is inseparable from thinking, and, as it seems to me, essential to it: it being impossible for any one to perceive without perceiving that he does perceive.
Side 486 - He thought he saw an unusual blaze of light fall upon the book which he was reading, which he at first imagined might happen by some accident in the candle; but, lifting up his eyes, he apprehended to his extreme amazement that there was before him, as it were suspended in the air, a visible representation of the Lord Jesus Christ upon the cross, surrounded on all sides with a glory ; and was impressed as if a voice, or something equivalent to a voice, had come to him, to this effect (for he was...
Side 153 - 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.
Side 286 - 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?
Side 211 - The table I write on I say exists, that is I see and feel it, and if I were out of my study I should say it existed, meaning thereby that if I was in my study I might perceive it, or that some other spirit actually does perceive it.
Side 289 - ... from feeling, he would carefully observe that he might know them again; but having too many objects to learn at once, he forgot many of them, and, as he said, at first he learned to know, and again forgot a thousand things in a day.
Side 203 - There can be nothing more certain than that the idea we receive from an external object is in our minds : this is intuitive knowledge.
Side 241 - I call idea; and the power to produce any idea in our mind, I call quality of the subject wherein that power is. Thus a snowball having the power to produce in us the ideas of white, cold, and round, the power to produce those ideas in us as they are in the snowball I call qualities; and as they are sensations or perceptions in our understandings, I call them ideas...