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" I think, is a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing, in different times and places... "
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - Page 55
by John Locke - 1823
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The Works of John Locke, Esq, Volume 1

John Locke - Philosophy - 1722 - 640 pages
...thinking intelligent Being, that has Reafon and Reflection, and can confider it fclf as it felr, the fame thinking thing in different times and places ; which it does only by that Confcioufnefs which is infeparable from thinking, and as it fcems to me eilential to it : it being...
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: In Four Books, Volume 1

John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1768 - 418 pages
...jintelligent Being, that has Reafon and Reflection, •^j land can confider itfelf as itfelf, the fame thinking Thing, in '(different Times and Places : which it does only by that Confcioufnefs which is infeparable from Thinking, and, as it feems to me, eflential to it: It being...
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Select British Classics, Volume 18

English literature - 1803 - 342 pages
...compose personal identity. Mr. Locke, after having premised that the word person properly signifies a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself; concludes that it is consciousness alone, and not an identity of substance, which makes this personal...
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An Analytical Abridgment of Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding

John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1808 - 346 pages
...once must, as well as the same immaterial spirit, go to the making of the same man. Person stands for a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself a! 7 * itself, the same thinking thing in different times and places ; which it does by that consciousness...
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An essay concerning human understanding. Also extr. from the author's works ...

John Locke - 1815 - 454 pages
...or no." Same man, This being premised, to find wherein personal identity consists, we must consider what person stands for; which, I think, is a thinking...reason and reflection, and can consider itself as it self, the same thinking thing in different times and places; which it does only by that consciousness...
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The British essayists; to which are prefixed prefaces by J. Ferguson, Volume 35

British essayists - 1819 - 304 pages
...compose personal identity. Mr. Locke, after having premised that the word person properly signifies a thinking intelligent being that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, concludes, that it is consciousness alone, and not an identity of substance, which makes this personal...
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The British Essayists: Spectator

James Ferguson - English essays - 1819 - 310 pages
...compose personal identity. Mr. Locke, after having premised that the word person properly signifies a thinking intelligent being that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, concludes, that it is consciousness alone, and not an identity of substance, which makes this personal...
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Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volume 1

Thomas Brown - Philosophy - 1822 - 552 pages
...personality, " To find," he says, " wherein personal identity consists, we must consider what/ier«on stands for; which, I think, is a thinking intelligent...consciousness, which is inseparable from thinking."* Having once given this definition of a person, there can be n« question, that personal identity, in...
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A Search of Truth in the Science of the Human Mind, Part First, Volume 1

Frederick Beasley - Philosophy - 1822 - 584 pages
...to be essential to it." Here we find the very opinion of Bishop Butler distinctly stated, a person is a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and...same thinking thing in different times and places, by means of consciousness. It is unaccountable that Mr. Locke should after this, have maintained that...
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The works of John Locke. To which is added the life of the author ..., Volume 3

John Locke - 1823 - 408 pages
...much as man. In which popular sense Mr. Locke manifestly takes the word, when he says, it " stands for a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and...can consider itself as itself, the same, thinking being, in different times and places." B. 2. c. 27- § 9- But when the term is used more accurately...
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