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... causes . Perhaps others are caused by a lack or absence of these same causes . For example , ' the Idea of Black is ... privative causes . Locke stresses that having a cause which is negative or privative does not mean that an idea is ...
... causes . Perhaps others are caused by a lack or absence of these same causes . For example , ' the Idea of Black is ... privative causes . Locke stresses that having a cause which is negative or privative does not mean that an idea is ...
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... privative cause are each carefully examined . One of them appeals to the undoubted fact that ' cold affects the organs of feeling , and sometimes causes great pain ' [ 3.737 ] . It suggests that being an ' object of sense ' in this way ...
... privative cause are each carefully examined . One of them appeals to the undoubted fact that ' cold affects the organs of feeling , and sometimes causes great pain ' [ 3.737 ] . It suggests that being an ' object of sense ' in this way ...
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... privative cause [ II.viii.2 ] is in effect a brief summary of Boyle's [ 1.704 f . ] . In dealing with privative causes Locke was clearly taking part in a contemporary discussion . What he says passes almost unnoticed now , and the vast ...
... privative cause [ II.viii.2 ] is in effect a brief summary of Boyle's [ 1.704 f . ] . In dealing with privative causes Locke was clearly taking part in a contemporary discussion . What he says passes almost unnoticed now , and the vast ...
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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