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... detail just how the link was envisaged . The idea was , I suggest , that the postulated innateness of an obvious truth was meant to explain or be the cause of that proposition's obviousness and ready acceptability . The idea was that if ...
... detail just how the link was envisaged . The idea was , I suggest , that the postulated innateness of an obvious truth was meant to explain or be the cause of that proposition's obviousness and ready acceptability . The idea was that if ...
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... detail in later sections , knowledge , as the seventeenth century understood it , was not something which could be obtained from such an observation - based study of the workings of the natural world . The study itself was not called ...
... detail in later sections , knowledge , as the seventeenth century understood it , was not something which could be obtained from such an observation - based study of the workings of the natural world . The study itself was not called ...
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... detail , in Boyle's dialogue Of the Positive and Privative Nature of Cold and his essay Of the Mechanical Origin of Heat and Cold [ see particularly 4.244 ] . Striking similarities can be found between Locke and Boyle on various aspects ...
... detail , in Boyle's dialogue Of the Positive and Privative Nature of Cold and his essay Of the Mechanical Origin of Heat and Cold [ see particularly 4.244 ] . Striking similarities can be found between Locke and Boyle on various aspects ...
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