A Study of Locke's Theory of Knowledge

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Ohio State University, 1919 - 103 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة 25 - Self is that conscious thinking thing, whatever substance made up of (whether spiritual or material, simple or compounded, it matters not), which is sensible or conscious of pleasure and pain, capable of happiness or misery, and so is concerned for itself, as far as that consciousness extends.
الصفحة 54 - Whatsoever the mind perceives in itself, or is the immediate object of perception, thought, or understanding, that I call idea; and the power to produce any idea in our mind, I call quality of the subject wherein that power is.
الصفحة 27 - That being then one plant which has such an organization of parts in one coherent body, partaking of one common life, it continues to be the same plant as long as it partakes of the same life, though that life be communicated to new particles of matter vitally united to the living plant, in a like continued organization conformable to that sort of plants.
الصفحة 17 - The senses at first let in particular ideas, and furnish the yet empty cabinet : and the mind by degrees growing familiar with some of them, they are lodged in the memory, and names got to them.
الصفحة 45 - ... keeps; and such as sense constantly finds in every particle of matter which has bulk enough to be perceived, and the mind finds inseparable from every particle of matter...
الصفحة 18 - The mind being, as I have declared, furnished with a great number of the simple ideas conveyed in by the senses, as they are found in exterior things, or by reflection on its own operations, takes notice also, that a certain number of these simple ideas go constantly together; which being presumed to belong, to one thing, and words being suited to common apprehensions, and made use of for quick despatch, are called, so united in one subject, by one name...
الصفحة 19 - What is it that solidity and extension inhere in? " he would not be in a much better case than the Indian before mentioned, who, saying that the world was supported by a great elephant, was asked, what the elephant rested on? to which his answer was, "A great tortoise": but being again pressed to know what gave support to the broad-backed tortoise, replied — something, he knew not what.
الصفحة 39 - 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 snow-ball having the power to produce in us the ideas of white, cold, and round, the powers to produce those ideas in us, as they are in the snow-ball, I call qualities ; and as they are sensations or perceptions in our understandings, I call them ideas ; which ideas, if I speak of sometimes as in the things themselves, I would be understood to mean those qualities in the objects...
الصفحة 15 - For, if we imagine warmth, as it is in our hands, to be nothing but a certain sort and degree of motion in the minute particles of our nerves...
الصفحة 86 - First, by real ideas, I mean such as have a foundation in nature; such as have a conformity with the real being and existence of things, or with their archetypes.

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