From whence it seems probable to me, that the simple ideas we receive from sensation and reflection are the boundaries of our thoughts; beyond which, the mind, whatever efforts it would make, is not able to advance one jot; nor can it make any discoveries,... Notices of the Proceedings - Page 351by Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1872Full view - About this book
| John Locke - 1801 - 398 pages
...our thoughts ; beyond which the mind, whatever efforts it would make, is not able to advance one jot; nor can it make any discoveries, when it would pry into the nature and hidden causes of those ideas. §. 30. So that in short, the idea we have idea of body of spirit, compared with the idea... | |
| John Locke - 1805 - 562 pages
...our thoughts ; beyond which the mind, whatever efforts it would make, is not able to advance one jot; nor can it make any discoveries, when it would pry into the nature and hidden causes of those ideas. Idea of body §• 30. So that, in short, the idea we have and spirit of spirit, compared... | |
| John Locke - 1805 - 554 pages
...thoughts; beyond which the mind, whatever efforts it would make, is not able to advance one jot ; ijor can it make any discoveries, when it 'would pry into the nature and hidden causes of those ideas. Idea of body §• 30. So that, in short, the idea we have and spirit of spirit, compared... | |
| John Locke - 1815 - 454 pages
...thoughts; beyond which the mind, •whatever efforts it would make, is not able to advance one jot; nor can it make any discoveries, when it would pry into the nature and hidden causes of those ideas. § 30. Idea of body and spirit compared. So that, in short, the idea we have of spirit,... | |
| John Locke - 1823 - 460 pages
...thoughts ; beyond which the mind, whatever efforts it would make, is not able to advance one jot ; nor can it make any discoveries, when it would pry into the nature and hidden causes of those ideas. § 30. So that, in short, the idea we idea of body have of spirit, compared with the idea... | |
| John Locke - 1828 - 436 pages
...thoughts ; beyond which the mind, whatever efforts it would make, is not able to advance one jot ; nor can it make any discoveries, when it would pry into the nature and hidden causes of those ideas. §30. So that, in short, the idea we Idea of body have of spirit, compared with the idea... | |
| John Locke - 1828 - 602 pages
...our thoughts; beyond which, the mind, whattverefforts it would make, is not able to advance one jot ; nor can it make any discoveries, when it would pry into the nature and hidden causes of those ideas. § SO. Idea of spirit and body compared. — So that, in short, the idea we have of spirit,... | |
| John Locke - 1828 - 424 pages
...our thoughts ; beyond which the mind, whatever efforts it would make, is not able to advance one jot; nor can it make any discoveries, when it would pry into the nature and hidden causes of those ideas. § 30. So that, in short, the idea we idea-of body have of spirit, compared with the idea... | |
| 1871 - 880 pages
...beyond which the mind, whatever efforts it would make, is not able to advance one jot." — Bo »k II. chap, xxiii. § '29. But Locke adds, " Nor can...it would pry into the nature and hidden causes of the=e ideas." Now, from this proposion, the thorough materialists dissent as much, on the one hand,... | |
| John Locke - 1849 - 588 pages
...thoughts ; beyond which, the mind, whatever efforts it would make, is not able to advance one jot ; nor can it make any discoveries, when it would pry into the nature and hidden causes of those ideas. 30. Idea of body and spirit compared. — So that, in short, the idea we have of spirit,... | |
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