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... simply false that everything we know is either a Scholastic maxim or is derived from such maxims . They show also that there is no reason to focus on rather general propositions of this sort and to suppose they have particular ...
... simply false that everything we know is either a Scholastic maxim or is derived from such maxims . They show also that there is no reason to focus on rather general propositions of this sort and to suppose they have particular ...
Page 116
... simply accidents . So beyond the answer ' a cat ' there must be something to which they belong . Locke seems to be thinking along these lines when in speaking of the qualities we ' find united in the thing called Horse or Stone ' he ...
... simply accidents . So beyond the answer ' a cat ' there must be something to which they belong . Locke seems to be thinking along these lines when in speaking of the qualities we ' find united in the thing called Horse or Stone ' he ...
Page 172
... simply in seeing why one ball should move off after the other meets it . 2 Common though it is , this understanding of what Locke found problematic about colliding bodies moving each other , is mistaken . It has recently been made ...
... simply in seeing why one ball should move off after the other meets it . 2 Common though it is , this understanding of what Locke found problematic about colliding bodies moving each other , is mistaken . It has recently been made ...
Contents
Chapter 2 | 53 |
Chapter 4 | 149 |
Bibliography of Books and Articles referred to more than once | 190 |
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accidental form accidents active power angles answer argument Aristotelian Aristotle body Book Boyle Boyle's Cartesian certainty clear colour complex idea concern corpuscles corpuscularian definition demonstration derived Descartes discussion distinction doctrine of innateness Essay example existence explain extent of knowledge fact Glanvill gold idea of active innate ideas intellectual intuitive intuitive knowledge John Locke Joseph Glanvill ledge Leibniz Locke says Locke's Malebranche malleability materials of knowledge matter means mechanical philosophy mind morality motion natural philosophy necessary connexion nominal essence objects obvious opinion particular passages perception Pierre Gassendi primary qualities principles privative causes properties propositions question real and nominal real essence reason refers rejection relation revelation Robert Boyle Royal Society scepticism Scholastic Scholasticism secondary qualities self-evident sensation sense seventeenth century simple ideas soul species Strasbourg cathedral Strasbourg-type clock substance-ideas substantial form suggestion supposed syllogism syllogistic things thought tion triangle truth understanding universal words