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... tion gives us a superficial description of the things to which a word applies . To say that men live in houses and wear clothes or that universities are places where people listen to others talking , is to give a merely nominal ...
... tion gives us a superficial description of the things to which a word applies . To say that men live in houses and wear clothes or that universities are places where people listen to others talking , is to give a merely nominal ...
Page 134
... tion of necessary connexions between ideas . If this necessary connexion results from the containment of one idea by another then there is trifling certainty . An instructive certainty , how- ever , results from one idea being a ...
... tion of necessary connexions between ideas . If this necessary connexion results from the containment of one idea by another then there is trifling certainty . An instructive certainty , how- ever , results from one idea being a ...
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... tion . For if we are to accept something on the basis of revelation we need to be certain that it is a genuine revelation . But we cannot be as certain of this as we are of our reason - based knowledge of the particular truth in ...
... tion . For if we are to accept something on the basis of revelation we need to be certain that it is a genuine revelation . But we cannot be as certain of this as we are of our reason - based knowledge of the particular truth in ...
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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