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Page 88
... certainty ' about this property of gold need not mean that there is no such certainty in fact . If we have no knowledge here it need not be because there are no necessary connexions of the sort which form the basis for knowledge . The ...
... certainty ' about this property of gold need not mean that there is no such certainty in fact . If we have no knowledge here it need not be because there are no necessary connexions of the sort which form the basis for knowledge . The ...
Page 133
... Certainty . . . . [ T ] he want of Ideas of their real Essences sends us from our own Thoughts , to the Things themselves , as they exist . Experience here must teach me , what Reason cannot : and ' tis by trying alone , that I can ...
... Certainty . . . . [ T ] he want of Ideas of their real Essences sends us from our own Thoughts , to the Things themselves , as they exist . Experience here must teach me , what Reason cannot : and ' tis by trying alone , that I can ...
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... certainty . An instructive certainty , how- ever , results from one idea being a necessary but non - contained consequence of another : We can know then the Truth of two sorts of Propositions , with perfect certainty ; the one is of ...
... certainty . An instructive certainty , how- ever , results from one idea being a necessary but non - contained consequence of another : We can know then the Truth of two sorts of Propositions , with perfect certainty ; the one is of ...
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 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 sorts of complex soul species Strasbourg cathedral Strasbourg-type clock substance-ideas substantial form suggestion supposed syllogism syllogistic things thought tion triangle truth understanding universal words