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" The idea then we have, to which we give the general name substance, being nothing but the supposed, but unknown, support of those qualities we find existing, which we imagine cannot subsist sine re substante, without something to support them, we call... "
The Journal of the Royal institution of Great Britain. Notices of the ... - Page 354
by Royal institution of Great Britain - 1872
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Religious Values and Intellectual Consistency, Issue 5

Edward Hartman Reisner - 1915 - 80 pages
...support of such qualities which are capable of producing simple ideas in us."1 Again he defines it as "nothing but the supposed, but unknown support of those qualities we find existing, which we imagine can not subsist without something to support them." Locke did not work out the implications of his...
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Problems of Philosophy: An Introductory Survey

Gustavus Watts Cunningham - 1924 - 506 pages
...X lying back of, and supporting, the qualities that we experience but different from them. It is " nothing but the supposed, but unknown, support of those qualities we find existing. . . .M1 It is the hidden substrate of qualities. This view of the problem, however, is very unsatisfactory,...
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Selections

John Locke - 1928 - 436 pages
...the thing they pretend to know and talk of, is what they have no distinct idea of at all, and so are perfectly ignorant of it, and in the dark. The idea...qualities we find existing, which we imagine cannot subsist, sine re substante, without something to support them, we call that support substantia; which,...
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Eighteenth-Century Philosophy

Lewis White Beck - 1966 - 332 pages
...the thing they pretend to know, and talk of, is what they have no distinct idea of at all, and so are perfectly ignorant of it, and in the dark. The idea...qualities we find existing, which we imagine cannot subsist sine re substante, without something to support them, we call that support substantia; which,...
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The Problem of Certainty in English Thought 1630–1690

Henry G. van Leeuwen - 1970 - 188 pages
...Works, II, 9-1 1 ; and Draft A, pp. 3-5. 41 Essay, II, xxiii, 2, Works, II, a. Locke adds immediately: "The idea then we have, to which we give the general...qualities we find existing, which we imagine cannot subsist 'sine re mbstante,' without something to support them, we call that support substantia; which,...
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Buddhist Philosophy: A Historical Analysis

David J. Kalupahana - 1984 - 222 pages
...British empiricist, presenting a similar form of dualism, arrived at the idea of substance. He says: The idea then we have, to which we give the general...qualities we find existing, which we imagine cannot subsist, sine re substante, without something to support them, we call that support substantia; which...
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Substance and Attribute: A Study in Ontology

Michael J. Loux - 1978 - 206 pages
...gave support to the broad-backed tortoise replied - something, he knew not what .... The idea that we have, to which we give the general name substance,...qualities we find existing, which we imagine cannot subsist since re substante, without something to support them, we call that support substantia, which...
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On Symbols and Society

Kenneth Burke - 1989 - 348 pages
...the thing they pretend to know and talk of, is what they have no distinct idea of at all, and so are perfectly ignorant of it, and in the dark. The idea,...qualities we find existing, which we imagine cannot subsist sine re substante, "without something to support them," we call that support substantia; which...
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Dark Eden: The Swamp in Nineteenth-Century American Culture

David Miller - 1989 - 368 pages
...we have been considering. Interestingly, Burke cited Locke on the fictional status of "substance": "The idea, then, we have, to which we give the general...qualities we find existing, which we imagine cannot subsist sine resubstante, 'without something to support them,' we call that support substantia; which...
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The Metaphysics of Being of St. Thomas Aquinas: In a Historical Perspective

Leo Elders - 1993 - 336 pages
...Substratum, wherein they do subsist, and from which they do result, which therefore we call substance... The idea then we have, to which we give the general...qualities, we find existing, which we imagine cannot subsist, sine re substante, without something to support them, we call that support substance"53. While...
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