...shall never be able to know whether any mere material thing thinks or no ; it being impossible for us to discover whether Omnipotency has not given to some...of matter fitly disposed, a power to perceive and think.1 We are perfectly conscious of the existence of our soul, without knowing exactly what it is...

...any mere mat> ,ial thing thinks or no ; it being impossible for us to discover whether Oinnipotency has not given to some systems of matter fitly disposed, a power to perceive and think? We are perfectly conscious of the existence of our soul, without knowing exactly what it is; and he...

...any mere material thing thinks or no ; it being impossible for us to discover whether Ornnipotency has not given to some systems of matter fitly disposed, a power to perceive and think.3 We are perfectly conscious of the existence of our soul, without knowing exactly what it is...

...else to the same purpose, he says: "We have the ideas of matter and thinking, but possibly shall never be able to know whether any mere material being thinks...own ideas, without revelation, to discover whether Omnipotence has not given to some systems of matter fitly disposed, a power to perceive and think,...

...shall never be able to know whether any mere material thing thinks or no ; it being impossible for us to discover whether Omnipotency has not given to some...matter fitly disposed, a power to perceive and think? We are perfectly conscious of the existence of our soul, without knowing exactly what it is; and he...

...Metaphysics, vol. ii, p. 128. ' Locke, it is perhaps worth remembering, left it an open question ' whether Omnipotency has not given to some systems...disposed, a power to perceive and think, or else joined and fixed to matter, so disposed, a thinking immaterial substance ' ; and he was of opinion that '...

...with the property of thought : ' We have the ideas of matter and thinking, but, possibly, shall never be able to know whether any mere material being thinks, or no. . . . We know not wherein thinking consists, nor to what sort of substances the Almighty has been pleased...

...and certainly know that it is so. We have the ideas of matter and thinking, but possibly shall never be able to know whether [any mere material being]...disposed, a power to perceive and think, or else joined and fixed to matter, so disposed, a thinking immaterial substance : it being, in respect of our notions,...

...and certainly know that it is so. We have the ideas of matter and thinking, but possibly shall never be able to know whether [any mere material being]...disposed, a power to perceive and think, or else joined and fixed to matter, so disposed, a thinking immaterial substance: it being, in respect of our notions,...

...whether any material being thinks or no; it being impossible for us, by contemplation of our own ideas, to discover whether Omnipotency has not given to some...disposed, a power to perceive and think, or else joined and fixed to matter, so disposed, a thinking immaterial substance; it being, in respect of our notions,...