The Elements of Logick
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ISBN13: 9781458916716
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: themfdves to our Thoughts, will, I hope, give fuch a View of the Conduct and Manner of the Mind, as may contribute not a little to introduce us to an Acquaintance with ourfelves, and make us fenfible of the Capacity and Extent of the human Intellect. We proceed therefore to a more particular Account f this Divifion of our Ideas. CHAP. II. Of Jimpl e Ideas. I. ? M -HE .firft Clafs of our Ideas are J. thofe which I diftinguifh by %ZUa' the Name of fimple Perception; be- caufe they exift in the Mind under one uniform Appearance, without Variety or Compofition. For tho' external Objects, convey at once into the Un- derftanding, many diffcrcnt Ideas all united together, and making as it were one whole; yet the Impreffions themfelves are evidently diftinct, and are conceived by the Mind, each .under a Form peculiar to itfelf. Thus the Ideas of Colout, Exten- fion, and Motion, may be taken in at one and the fame Time, from the fame Body; yet thefc three Perceptions are as uiilinct in themfelves, as if they all proceeded from different Objects, or were exhibited chapter{{Section 4bited to our Notice at different Times. We are therefore carefully to diftinguifh between our fitnplc and primitive Conceptions, and thofe different Combinations of them, which are often fuggefted to the Mind, by fingle Objects acting upon it. The firft conftitute our original Notices of Things, and are not diftinguifhable into different Ideas, but enter by the Senfcs funple and unmixed. They are alfo the Materials out of which all the others, how complex and complicated foever, are formed j and therefore ought defervedly to be looked on as the Foundation and Ground-work of our Knowledge., ., II. Now if we take a Survey of thefe Simple Idea f Snfa- Ideas, and their feveral Divifions and ...
| ISBN-13 | 9781458916716 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1458916715 |
| Weight | 0.75 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.52 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 228 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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