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... substance and quality : I will begin with what is driest . The first thing I shall take will be the problem of substance . Every man uses the old distinction between substance and attribute . Here is a bit of blackboard crayon . Its ...
... substance and quality : I will begin with what is driest . The first thing I shall take will be the problem of substance . Every man uses the old distinction between substance and attribute . Here is a bit of blackboard crayon . Its ...
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... substance signifies . Behind that fact there is nothing . The notion of a substance which underlies certain observed qualities is , by now , a familiar one . We have met it in previous chapters . What difference , we might have asked ...
... substance signifies . Behind that fact there is nothing . The notion of a substance which underlies certain observed qualities is , by now , a familiar one . We have met it in previous chapters . What difference , we might have asked ...
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... substance . The notion of substance causes Locke great perplexity and dis- It corresponds to no simple idea . It is nowhere given in experience . He refers to it as " something we know not what . ' " The idea to which we give the name ...
... substance . The notion of substance causes Locke great perplexity and dis- It corresponds to no simple idea . It is nowhere given in experience . He refers to it as " something we know not what . ' " The idea to which we give the name ...
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