 | J. JOHNSON - 1801 - 374 pages
...separated from time and place; and so capable to represent any particular being that is conformable to it. Knowledge, which is the highest degree of the speculative faculties, consists in the,perception of the truth of affirmative, or negative, propositions. This perception is either immediate,... | |
 | John Locke - 1801 - 398 pages
...and last sort does, My definition of knowledge stands thus: " knowledge seems to me to be nbthing but the perception of the connexion and agreement, or disagreement and repugnancy of any of our ideas." This definition your lordship dislikes, and apprehends it may be of dangerous consequence... | |
 | Tom Telescope, Oliver Goldsmith, John Newbery - Early printed books - 1803 - 162 pages
...time and place, and lodged in the mind to represent any particular thing that is conformable to it. Knowledge, which is the highest degree of the speculative faculties, consists in the perception of the truth of .affirmative or negative propositions ; and this perception is either immediate or mediate.... | |
 | James Wilson - Law - 1804 - 514 pages
...to consider it as a very important discovery. " Knowledge," says he, " seems to me to be nothing but the perception of the connexion and agreement, or disagreement and repugnancy of any of our ideas. In this alone it consists. For since the mind, in all. its thoughts and reasonings,... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1805 - 508 pages
...separated from time and place ; and so capable to represent any particular being that is conformable to it. Knowledge, which is the highest degree of the speculative faculties, consists in the perception of the truth of affirmative, or negative, propositions. . ,. v This perception is either immediate, or mediate.... | |
 | Tom Telescope - Science - 1808 - 188 pages
...time and place, and lodged in the mind to represent any particular thing that is conformable to it. , Knowledge, which is the highest degree of the speculative faculties consists in the perception of the truth of affirmative or negative propositions ; and this perception is either immediate or mediate.... | |
 | Tom Telescope, Oliver Goldsmith - Physics - 1812 - 148 pages
...represent any particular thing that is conformable to it. Knowledge, and of his Understanding. 121 Knowledge, which is the highest degree of the speculative faculties, consists in the perception of (he truth of affirmative or negative propositions; and this perception is either immediate or mediate.... | |
 | Charles Buck - Theology - 1815 - 546 pages
...to be in common, and that it is lawful to marry many wives. KNOWLEDGE is denned by Mr. Locke to be the perception of the connexion and . agreement, or disagreement and repugnancy of our ideas. It also denotes learning, of the improvement of our faculties by reading ; exfitrience, or the acquiring... | |
 | John Locke - Philosophy - 1823 - 404 pages
...separated from time and place ; and so capable to represent any particular being that is conformable to it. Knowledge, which is the highest degree of the speculative faculties, consists in the perception of the truth of affirmative or negative propositions. This perception is either immediate or mediate. Immediate... | |
 | Charles Buck - Bible - 1823 - 614 pages
...to be in common, and that it is lawful to marry many wives. KNOWLEDGE is denned by Mr. Locke to be the perception of the connexion, and agreement, or disagreement and repugnancy of our ideas. It also denotes learning, or the improvement of our faculties by reading; experience, or the acquiring... | |
| |
Knowledge then seems to me to be nothing but the perception of the connexion and agreement, or disagreement and repugnancy, of any of our ideas. 
