 | John Locke - Philosophy - 1722 - 640 pages
...Square, and certainly know that it is fo. We have the ideas of Matter and Thinking, but poffibly fliall never be able to know, whether any mere material Being thinks, or no ; it being impoffible for us, by the Contemplation of our own Ideas, without Revelation, to difcover, whether... | |
 | Andrew Baxter - Philosophy - 1745 - 446 pages
...3. feet. 6. in the Note at thefe words, We have the ideas of matter and thinking, but pofJibly Jhall never be able to know, whether any mere material being thinks, or not; it being impojjible for us, by the contemplation of our own ideas, without revelation, to difcover... | |
 | Jean-Baptiste de Boyer Argens (marquis d') - Antisemitism - 1766 - 390 pages
...Effence of the human Soul. " We have, " fays he, the Ideas of Matter and Thinking, but " poffibly fhall never be able to know whether any •*' mere material Being thinks or no, it being im" poflible for us, by the Contemplation of our own " Ideas, without Revelation, to difcover whether... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - Metaphysics - 1776 - 410 pages
...to know certainly that it *' is fo. We have the ideas of matter and think" ing ; but pofilbly fhall never be able to know " whether any mere material being thinks or no." In like manner, and far more ftrongly, it may be PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS. 357 faid, that, fuppofing us... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - Philosophy - 1777 - 424 pages
...together his moft ftriking arguments : " We have ideas of matter and thinking, but poffibly " fhall never be able to know whether any mere material " being thinks or no; it being impoflible for us, by the " contemplation of our own ideas, Without revelation, to " difcover whether... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1796 - 554 pages
...fquare, and certainly know that it is fo. We have the ideas of matter and thinking*, but poffibly fliall never be able to know, whether any mere material being thinks, or no ; it being im— * Againft that aflertion of Mr. Locke, that poflibly we (hall never be able to know Whether arty... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1801 - 986 pages
...fquare, and certainly know that it is fo. We have the ideas of matter and thinking, but poflibly (hall never be able to know, whether any mere material being thinks, or no ; it being impoflible fo* us, by the contemplation of our own ideas, without revelation, to difcover, whether... | |
 | John Locke - 1801 - 398 pages
...mere material being thinks, or no; it being ha* Against that assertion of Mr. Locke, that possibly we shall never be able to know whether any mere material being thinks or no, &c. the bishop of Worcester argues thus : if this be true, then, for all that we can know by our ideas... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1801 - 334 pages
...poflibly fhall never be able to know, whether any mere material being thinks, or no ; it being irupoffible for us, by the contemplation of our own ideas, without revelation, to difcover, whether Omnipotency has not given to fome fyftems of matter fitly difpofed, a power to perceive... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1805 - 520 pages
...equal to a square, and certainly know 80 % Extent of Human Knowledge. Book 4. know that it* is so. We have the ideas of matter and thinking*, but possibly shall never be able to know, \vliethcr any mere material being thinks, or no ; it being im* -Against that assertion of Mr. Locke,... | |
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We have the ideas of matter and thinking, but possibly shall never be able to know, whether any mere material being thinks, or no... 
