Ideas

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Simpkin, Marshall, and Company, 1848

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Page 105 - When I deny sensible things an existence out of the mind, I do not mean my mind in particular, but all minds. Now, it is plain they have an existence exterior to my mind ; since I find them by experience to be independent of it.
Page 99 - The table I write on I say exists, that is, I see and feel it; and if I were out of my study I should say it existed, meaning thereby that if I was in my study I might perceive it, or that some other spirit actually does perceive it.
Page 125 - ... firmaments into which sidereal astronomy now divides the universe, events may succeed one another at random, without any fixed law...
Page 100 - There was an odour, that is, it was smelt; there was a sound, that is, it was heard ; a colour or figure, and it was perceived by sight or touch. This is all that I can understand by these and the like expressions.
Page 120 - Upon the whole, necessity is something that exists in the mind, not in objects ; nor is it possible for us ever to form the most distant idea of it, considered as a quality in bodies. Either we have no idea of necessity, or necessity is nothing but that determination of the thought to pass from causes to effects and from effects to causes, according to their experienced union.
Page 99 - I think an intuitive knowledge may be obtained of this, by any one that shall attend to what is meant by the term exist when applied to sensible things. The table I write on I say exists; that is, I see and feel it: and if I were out of my study I should say it existed; meaning...
Page 69 - And we indeed, rightly considering objects of sense as mere appearances, confess thereby that they are based upon a thing in itself, though we know not this thing in its internal constitution, but only know its appearances, viz., the way in which our senses are affected by this unknown something.
Page 100 - ... or figure, and it was perceived by sight or touch. This is all that I can understand by these and the like expressions. For as to what is said of the absolute existence of unthinking things without any relation to their being perceived, that seems perfectly unintelligible. Their esse is percipi, nor is it possible they should have any existence, out of the minds or thinking things which perceive them.
Page 74 - ... consideration of existence, in and by itself, as the mere act of existing? Hast thou ever said to thyself thoughtfully, It is ! heedless in that moment, whether it were a man before thee, or a flower, or a grain of sand ? without reference, in short, to this or that particular mode or form of existence ? If thou hast indeed attained to this, thou wilt have felt the presence of a mystery, which must have fixed thy spirit in awe and wonder.
Page 16 - In short, the actions of the mind are, in this respect, the same with those of matter. We perceive only their constant conjunction ; nor can we ever reason beyond it. No internal impression has an apparent energy, more than external objects have.

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