 THE word REASON in the English language has different significations: sometimes it is taken for true and clear principles: sometimes for clear and fair deductions from those principles: and sometimes for the cause, and particularly the final cause. But...  The Works of John Locke - Page 113by John Locke - 1823Full view - About this book
 | Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz - Mathematics - 1996 - 528 pages
...with reason. 'Sometimes it is taken for true, and clear principles: sometimes for . . . deductions from those principles : and sometimes for the cause, and particularly the final cause. [But here it is to be considered as] that faculty, whereby man is supposed to be distinguished from beasts,... | |
 | Alvin Plantinga - Religion - 2000 - 528 pages
...that we must be guided, in the formation of opinion, by reason. Well, what is reason? First, it is "a faculty in man, that faculty whereby man is supposed...and wherein it is evident he much surpasses them" (IV, xvii, 1, p. 386). Second, reason is the power whereby we can discern broadly logical relations... | |
 | Peter R. Anstey - Philosophy, British - 2003 - 232 pages
...Principles'. Locke proposes to understand it in another way, as the name of 'a Faculty in Man' — a faculty 'whereby Man is supposed to be distinguished...and wherein it is evident he much surpasses them' (TV. xvii. 1, p. 668). (Locke also distinguishes a fourth sense - reason as the cause (particularly... | |
 | Peter Walmsley - Philosophy - 2003 - 208 pages
...(2.9.14). But ultimately, when he comes to speak of reason itself, he is much more cautious: it is "That Faculty, whereby Man is supposed to be distinguished...Beasts, and wherein it is evident he much surpasses" (4.17.1). Here Locke implies that our mental powers, however superior, seem to differ from those of... | |
 | Kim Ian Parker, Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 217 pages
...Significations: sometimes it is taken for true, and clear Principles: Sometimes for clear, and fair deductions from those Principles: and sometimes for the Cause,...all these; and that is, as it stands for a Faculty of Man, That Faculty, whereby Man is supposed to be distinguished from Beast, and wherein it is evident... | |
 | Knud Haakonssen - Electronic reference sources - 2006 - 668 pages
...reason were one and the same. Locke, for example, defined 'reason' (in one of its several senses) as 'That Faculty, whereby Man is supposed to be distinguished...and wherein it is evident he much surpasses them' (Essay, IV.xvii.i). It therefore coincided with the understanding, whose scope and limits were the... | |
 | Paddy Scannell - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2009 - 314 pages
...significations; sometimes it is taken for true and clear principles; sometimes for clear and fair deductions from those principles; and sometimes for the cause, and particularly the final cause'. He appended four degrees of reason: discovering truths, regularly and methodically ordering them, perceiving... | |
 | Péter Losonczi, Géza G. Xeravits - Christianity and other religions - 2007 - 234 pages
...clear, and fair deductions from those Principles: and sometimes for the Cause, and particularly, for the final Cause. But the Consideration I shall have...and wherein it is evident he much surpasses them. 21 Below, we are going to suggest that the first of these then-existing meanings interferes—to some... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1800 - 540 pages
...significations : sometimes it is taken for true and clear principles ; sometimes for clear and fair deductions from those principles ; and sometimes for the cause,...But the consideration I shall have of it here is in signification different from all these ; and that is, as it stands for a faculty in man, that faculty... | |
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