 | Lynn McDonald - Philosophy - 1996 - 412 pages
...regulate our assent and moderate our persuasion where we cannot have certainty: If by this enquiry into the nature of the understanding, I can discover...more cautious in meddling with things exceeding its comprehension; to stop, when it is at the utmost extent of its tether; and to sit down in a quiet ignorance... | |
 | Carlos Peregrín Otero - Anthropology - 1994 - 378 pages
...Essay Concerning Human Understanding that he seeks to learn the 'nature of the understanding' and to discover 'the Powers thereof: how far they reach;...Degree proportionate; and where they fail us' (I, i, §4). I do not think that the 'paradox' arises from speaking about epistemological limits because... | |
 | Michael Martin, Lee C. McIntyre - History - 1994 - 818 pages
...eighteenth century. This was fully realized by its promoters. Locke thought that by its means he could "prevail with the busy Mind of Man, to be more cautious in meddling with things exceeding its Comprehension; to stop, when it is at the utmost of its Tether; and to sit down in a quiet Ignorance... | |
 | Michael W. Spicer - Political Science - 1995 - 138 pages
...comprehension of our understandings comes exceedingly short of the vast extent of things" and that "it may be of use to prevail with the busy mind of...more cautious in meddling with things exceeding its comprehension" is consistent with the anti-rationalist view (245). The anti-rationalist view on the... | |
 | Joyce Oldham Appleby - Knowledge, Sociology of - 1996 - 578 pages
...degrees of assent. Sect. 4. Useful to know the extent of our comprehension — If, by this inquiry into the nature of the understanding, I can discover...more cautious in meddling with things exceeding its comprehension, to stop when it is at the utmost extent of its tether,- and to sit down in a quiet ignorance... | |
 | Y. Masih - Philosophy - 1999 - 606 pages
...competence. Thus in general the problem of Kant is the same as that of Locke, namely, "If, by this inquiry into the nature of the understanding I can discover...they are in any degree proportionate, and where they Immanuel Kant 331 fail us; I suppose it may be of use to prevail with the busy mind of man, to be more... | |
 | Beat Affentranger - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 194 pages
...doing, for instance, when he wrote the following introductory passage to the Essay! If by this inquiry into the nature of the understanding, I can discover...what things they are in any degree proportionate; 1832 respectively)." (135) It was not until the 1860s, however, that the term Erkenntinstheorie had... | |
 | Roy Sorensen - Philosophy - 2001 - 214 pages
...energy on issues that are 'void for vagueness'. Recall the wise resignation to which John Locke aspired: I suppose it may be of use to prevail with the busy...more cautious in meddling with things exceeding its comprehension; to stop when it is at the utmost extent of its tether; and to sit down in quiet ignorance... | |
 | Asa Mahan - Philosophy - 2003 - 493 pages
...and extent of human knowledge.' If, by this inquiry into the nature of the understanding,' he says, 'I can discover the powers thereof, how far they reach,...more cautious in meddling with things exceeding its comprehension; to stop when it is at the utmost extent of its tether; and to sit down in a quiet ignorance... | |
 | Asa Mahan - Philosophy - 2003 - 494 pages
...use of our intellectual faculties is just what he has stated, to 'discover the powers of the mind, how far they reach, to what things they are in any degree proportionate, and where they fail us.' Equally proper is the first great inquiry which he raises as a means to this end, namely, to 'inquire... | |
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If by this inquiry into the nature of the understanding, I can discover the powers thereof; how far they reach; to what things they are in any degree proportionate; and where they fail us, I suppose it may be of use to prevail with the busy mind of man... 
