 We have the ideas of matter and thinking, but possibly shall never be able to know whether any mere material being thinks or no; it being impossible for us, by the contemplation of our own ideas, without revelation, to discover whether Omnipotency has...  An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - Page 103by John Locke - 1805 - 510 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Locke - 1801 - 398 pages
...disposed as our bodies are ? especially since it is said, + " That, in refpect •' of our notions, it is not much more remote from our comprehension to " conceive that God can, if he pleases, superadd to our idea of matter a " faculty of thinking, than that he should superadd to it another sub" stance,... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1814 - 786 pages
...without revelation, to discover, whelhar Omnipotent'}* has not given to some systems of matter, filly disposed, a power to perceive and think ; or else...matter so disposed a thinking immaterial substance." Now on the passage here quoted I cannot but remark, thai, understanding the terra matter in its usual... | |
 | John Locke - 1819 - 460 pages
...for us, by the contemplation of our own ideas, without rerelation, to discover, whether omnipotency has not given to some systems of matter fitly disposed...thinking immaterial substance : it being, in respect of onr notions, not much more remote from our comprehension to conceive, that God can, if he pleas.es,... | |
 | 1821 - 134 pages
...by the contemplation of our •own ideas, without revelation, to discover whether omnipotency hath not given to some systems of matter, fitly disposed, a power to perceive or think." The sceptic (no doubt very charitably) assists-his pupil to interpret the .passage in perverting... | |
 | John Locke - Philosophy - 1823 - 444 pages
...for us, by the contemplation of our own ideas, without revelation, to discover whether omnipotency has not given to some systems of matter, fitly disposed,...more remote from our comprehension to conceive that reach : but finding in myself nothing to be truer than what the •wise Solomon tells me, * As thou... | |
 | John Locke - 1823 - 432 pages
...for us, by the contemplation of our own ideas, without revelation, to discover whether omnipotency has not given to some systems of matter, fitly disposed,...more remote from our comprehension to conceive that * . • • * * reach : but finding in myself nothing to be truer than what the wise Solomon tells... | |
 | John Locke - Philosophy, Modern - 1823 - 426 pages
...disposed as our bodies are ? especially since it is said t, " That, in respect of our notions, it is not much more remote from our comprehension to conceive that God can, if he pleases, superadd to our idea of matter a faculty of thinking, than that he should superadd to it'another substance, with... | |
 | John Locke - Philosophy - 1823 - 540 pages
...us, by the contemplation of our own ideas, without revelation, to discover whether Omnipotency hath not given to some systems of matter, fitly disposed, a power to perceive or think. — If this be true, then for all that -we can know by our ideas of matter and thinking,... | |
 | John Locke - 1824 - 518 pages
...disposed as our bodies are ? especially since it is said*, " That, in respect of our notions, it is not much more remote " from our comprehension to conceive that God can, if he pleases, " superadd to our idea of matter a faculty of thinking, than that he " should superadd to it another substance, with... | |
 | Hades - 1825 - 260 pages
...and well regulated minds, had not made up his opinion on the immateriality of the soul ; but says, " God can, if he pleases, superadd to matter a faculty of thinking; since we know not wherein thinking consists, nor to what sort of substances the Almighty has been pleased... | |
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