 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
 | David Skrbina - Philosophy - 2005 - 334 pages
...any mere material being thinks or no; it being impossible for us ... to discover whether Omnipotency has not given to some systems of matter, fitly disposed,...perceive and think, or else joined and fixed to matter ... a thinking immaterial substance. . . . We know not wherein thinking consists, nor to what sort... | |
 | Alexandra Böhm - Art and science - 2008 - 374 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, a power to perceive and think, or eise joined and fixed to Matter so disposed, a thinking immaterial substance: It being, in respect... | |
 | Matthew Stewart - Philosophy - 2007 - 346 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, a power to perceive and think. . . ." "The author's philosophy," Leibniz thunders in reply, "destroys what appears to me most important... | |
 | Thomas M. Lennon, Robert J. Stainton - Philosophy - 2008 - 290 pages
...of our own Ideas, without revelation, to discover whether Omnipotency has not given to some System of Matter fitly disposed, a power to perceive and...Matter so disposed, a thinking immaterial Substance . . .(Essay IV.iii.6, pp. 540-1). So Clarke and Locke agree in rejecting emergentism, and they both... | |
 | Paul Russell - Philosophy - 2008 - 442 pages
...impossible 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, a power to perceive and think It being, in respect of our Notions, not much more remote from our Comprehension to conceive, that... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1800 - 540 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,...fixed to matter so disposed, a thinking immaterial Perhaps my using the word spirit for a thinking substance, without excluding materiality out of it,... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1814 - 774 pages
...contemplation of our own ideas, without revelation, to discover, whether Omnipotemy has not given Io some systems of matter, fitly disposed, a power to...matter so disposed a thinking immaterial substance." Now on the passage here quoted t cannot but remark, thai, understanding the term matter in its usual... | |
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