Elements of Psychology: Included in a Critical Examination of Locke's Essay on the Human Understanding, and in Additional PiecesIvison & Phinney, 1856 - 568 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 484 - For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure, I never catch myself at any time without a perception,
الصفحة 262 - It is evident, the mind knows not things immediately, but only by the intervention of the ideas it has of them. Our knowledge therefore is real, only so far as there is a conformity between our ideas and the reality of things." These two passages are positive ; they clearly reduce the question of
الصفحة 122 - Secondly, The other fountain from which experience furnisheth the understanding with ideas is the perception of the operations of our own mind within us, as it is employed about the ideas it has got ; which operations, when the soul comes to reflect on and consider, do furnish the
الصفحة 122 - 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.
الصفحة 122 - it to be furnished ? Whence comes it by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it, with an almost endless variety ? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge Î To this I answer, in one word, from experience ; in that all our knowledge is founded, and from that it ultimately derives itself.
الصفحة 123 - takes of its own operations, and the manner of them ; by reason whereof there come to be ideas of these operations in the understanding. These two, I say, namely, external material things, as the objects of sensation, and the operations of our minds within, as the objects of reflection,
الصفحة 485 - variety of postures and situations The comparison of the theater must not mislead us. They are the successive perceptions only that constitute the mind ; nor have we the most distant notion of the place where these scenes are represented, or of the materials of which it is
الصفحة 261 - IV. Of Knowledge ; Ch. I. Of Knowledge in general. § 1 : " Since the mind, in all its thoughts and reasonings hath no other immediate object but its own ideas, which it alone does or can contemplate, it is evident that our knowledge is only conversant about them.
الصفحة 98 - a quiet ignorance of those things, which, upon examination, are found to be beyond the reach of our capacities. We should not then perhaps be so forward, out of an affectation of an universal knowledge, to raise questions and perplex ourselves and others about things to which our understandings are not suited,
الصفحة 485 - I 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 perpetual