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... infinite possi- bilities , which descend by series after series of general laws and principles into the simplest facts . But any general laws or ideas , not seen in their connection with the one necessity of being and reason , would ...
... infinite possi- bilities , which descend by series after series of general laws and principles into the simplest facts . But any general laws or ideas , not seen in their connection with the one necessity of being and reason , would ...
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... INFINITE , & c . Infinite is without bounds , indefinite has unknown bounds , and definite has ascer- tained bounds . 2 REASON . Reason is the mind's light of reality , 1 POWER-DEFINITIONS POWER-DEFINITIONS.
... INFINITE , & c . Infinite is without bounds , indefinite has unknown bounds , and definite has ascer- tained bounds . 2 REASON . Reason is the mind's light of reality , 1 POWER-DEFINITIONS POWER-DEFINITIONS.
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... infinite possibilities , and re- duces all knowledge to the foundation of three rational ideas of them . The three possibilities which compre- hend all reality are power , space , and time ; and the ideas of them are the dictates of ...
... infinite possibilities , and re- duces all knowledge to the foundation of three rational ideas of them . The three possibilities which compre- hend all reality are power , space , and time ; and the ideas of them are the dictates of ...
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... infinite power , space , and time , and construe the thought with limits ; we can only think of infinite as without limits . The thought of infinite is quite negative of limits ; but the thought or conception of the infinite realities ...
... infinite power , space , and time , and construe the thought with limits ; we can only think of infinite as without limits . The thought of infinite is quite negative of limits ; but the thought or conception of the infinite realities ...
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... infinite entirety of space and time , which are no parts of any thing greater , and of infinitely small divisions than which nothing can be smaller . I cannot imagine either extremes , because to imagine them would be to think of them ...
... infinite entirety of space and time , which are no parts of any thing greater , and of infinitely small divisions than which nothing can be smaller . I cannot imagine either extremes , because to imagine them would be to think of them ...
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affinity agency antecedent apprehend arise atom capable causation changes chemical chemical affinity chemical elements conceive conceptions connected consciousness consequent consist constitution contradiction Descartes determine difference disposition distinct electric elementary particle elements energy entity eternal ether evidence exercises existence faculty of thinking feeling fluid Free agency fundamental idea gravitation hard idea of power idea of substance ideas of reason impossible indefinite inertia infinite INFINITELY DIVISIBLE infinity influence intelligence knowledge known light limits Locke's manner material substance mechanical mental substance mind modes moral action moral constitution moral responsibility motion move nature necessity object operate organisation ourselves particles perception perfect Perfect power person pheno phenomena philosophy possible principles proper qualities of body rational realise reality relation sensation sense sensible separate Sir William Hamilton sophism space speed of gravity stance supposed tendencies things thoughts and affections tion transcend truth understanding unity Uranus weight
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Page 32 - If any one will examine himself concerning his notion of pure substance in general, he will find that he has no other idea of it all, but only a supposition of he knows not what support of such qualities which are capable of producing simple ideas in us ; which qualities are commonly called accidents
Page 58 - Bodies compounded of them ; even so very hard, as never to wear or break in pieces ; no ordinary Power being able to divide what God himself made one in the first Creation.
Page 128 - The glory of the LORD shall endure for ever: the LORD shall rejoice in his works.
Page 32 - ... tortoise, and the tortoise by he knew not what. Thus here, as in all cases where we use words without distinct ideas, we talk like children, who being questioned what such a thing is that they know not, answer, Something. The idea then to which we give the name of substance being but the unknown support of qualities, which we imagine cannot subsist without something to support them, we call that support, substantia, standing under, or...
Page 91 - I say, our specific ideas of substances are nothing else but a collection of a certain number of simple ideas, considered as united in one thing.
Page 75 - This they take for an undoubted truth, which they can demonstrate beyond all exception. Now if it be certain, that those original qualities are inseparably united with the other sensible qualities, and not, even in thought, capable of being abstracted from them, it plainly follows that they exist only in the mind. But I desire...
Page 86 - ... in all our operations, whether agricultural or manufacturing, it is not we who operate, but the laws of nature which we have set in operation. It is, then, of the highest importance that we should know these laws, in order to know what we are about...
Page 27 - ... be no harm in speaking again of the mind of man and the mind of animals as a tabula rasa on which impressions are made which faint, and spontaneously develop into conceptions and general ideas. They might revive the old watchword of Locke's school ' — though it is really much older than Locke4 — 'that there is nothing in the intellect that was not before in the senses...
Page 55 - ... obvious that each of the particles of matter will, by its attraction, collect about it a condensed atmosphere of ether. If the attractions and repulsions be all inversely as the squares of the distances...
Page 65 - I have long held an opinion that the various forms under which the forces of matter are made manifest, have one common origin; are, indeed, so directly related and mutually dependent, that they are convertible, as it were, into one another, and possess equivalents of power in their action.