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... signify that colour than red or green . Words and names therefore are mere arbitrary signs invented by men to communicate their thoughts or ideas to one another . Obferv . 2. If one single word were appointed to ex- prefs but one simple ...
... signify that colour than red or green . Words and names therefore are mere arbitrary signs invented by men to communicate their thoughts or ideas to one another . Obferv . 2. If one single word were appointed to ex- prefs but one simple ...
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... signify complex ideas , one word can never di- ftinctly manifeft all the parts of a complex idea ; and thereby it will often happen , that one man includes more or lefs in his idea , than another does , while he affixes the fame word to ...
... signify complex ideas , one word can never di- ftinctly manifeft all the parts of a complex idea ; and thereby it will often happen , that one man includes more or lefs in his idea , than another does , while he affixes the fame word to ...
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... signify all of them , at least by one fingle term . When I use the word fhore , I may intend thereby a coaft of land near the sea , or a drain to carry off water , or a prop to fupport a building ; and by the found of the word porter ...
... signify all of them , at least by one fingle term . When I use the word fhore , I may intend thereby a coaft of land near the sea , or a drain to carry off water , or a prop to fupport a building ; and by the found of the word porter ...
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... signify ever - living , or a continuance in life ; in- folent fignifies rude and haughty ; indemnify , to keep fafe ; and infinite perhaps has a positive idea too , for it is an idea ever growing ; and when it is applied to God , it ...
... signify ever - living , or a continuance in life ; in- folent fignifies rude and haughty ; indemnify , to keep fafe ; and infinite perhaps has a positive idea too , for it is an idea ever growing ; and when it is applied to God , it ...
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... signify pardon , & c . which feem to be positives . So darkness , madnefs , clown , are positive terms , but they imply the want of light , the want of reafon , and the want of manners ; and perhaps these may be ranked among the ...
... signify pardon , & c . which feem to be positives . So darkness , madnefs , clown , are positive terms , but they imply the want of light , the want of reafon , and the want of manners ; and perhaps these may be ranked among the ...
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affent affirmative alfo alſo animal argument arife becauſe believe body cafes called caufe cauſe chriftian clear and diftinct compofed conclufion confefs confider copula define definition difcourfe diftinct diftinguish diftribution divifion divine effence effential evidence expreffed faid faith falfe fame fcience fcripture fearch fecond feem fenfation fenfe fenſe fentiments feveral fhall fhape fhew fhould fide fignify fimple fince fingle firft folid fome fomething fometimes foul fpeak fpecial fpecies fpirit fprings fubftance fubject fuch fufficient fuppofed fyllo fyllogifms genus himſelf human ideas inftance itſelf judge judgment juft juſt learned lefs logic matters middle term mind miſtakes modes moft moſt muft muſt nature neceffary obfcure obferved objects occafion ourſelves paffions particular perfons philofophers poffible pofitive predicate prefent prejudices proper properties propofition reafon religion rules SECT ſenſe ſuch teftimony thefe themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe tion true truth ufually underſtand univerfal uſed whatſoever wherein whofe words
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Page 70 - Use the most proper methods to retain that treasure of ideas which you have acquired; for the mind is ready to let many of them slip, unless some pains and labor be taken to fix them upon the memory.
Page 69 - God and yourselves ; learn animal nature, and the workings of your own spirits. Such a general acquaintance with things will be of very great advantage.
Page 9 - Reason is the glory of human nature, and one of the chief eminences whereby we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes, in this lower world.
Page 66 - ... them. A ballad, once signified a solemn and sacred song, as well as one that is trivial* when Solomon's song was called the ballad of ballads : but now it is applied to nothing but trifling verse, or comical subjects.
Page 142 - Certainty, according to the schools, is distinguished into objective and subjective. Objective certainty, is when the proposition is certainly true in itself; and subjective, when we are certain of the truth of it. The one is in things, the other is in our minds.
Page 144 - As we learn what belongs to the body by the evidence of sense, so we learn what belongs to the soul by an inward consciousness, which may be called a sort of internal feeling, or spiritual sensation of what passes in the mind; as, 'I think before I speak...
Page 235 - When the consequent is contradicted in the minor proposition, that the antecedent may be contradicted in the conclusion : as, If atheists are in the right, then the world exists without a cause; but the world does not exist without a cause ; therefore, atheists...
Page 89 - ... the alteration ; for when any word has been used to signify an idea, that old idea will recur in the mind, when the word is heard or read, rather than any new idea which we may fasten to it. And this is one reason why the received definition of names should be changed as little as possible.
Page 147 - According as the persons that inform us of anything are many or few, or more or less wise, and faithful, and credible, so our faith is more or less firm or wavering, and the proposition believed is either certain or doubtful ; but in matters of faith, an exceeding great probability is called a moral certainty...
Page 72 - To shorten something of this labor, if the books which you read are your own, mark with a pen, or pencil, the most considerable things in them which you desire to remember. Thus you may read that book the second time over with half the trouble, by your eye running over the paragraphs which your pencil has noted...