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... ideas and sensations are visibly inactive . There is nothing of power or agency included in them . One idea or sensation cannot produce or alter another . The very being of an idea implies passiveness and inertness in it ; insomuch that ...
... ideas and sensations are visibly inactive . There is nothing of power or agency included in them . One idea or sensation cannot produce or alter another . The very being of an idea implies passiveness and inertness in it ; insomuch that ...
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... ideas . Locke's refutation of the hypothesis of innate ideas is too long to be reproduced here . It comes to this : ( 1 ) It is a useless hypothesis , since the steps to knowledge are all discoverable . If this be the case , why ...
... ideas . Locke's refutation of the hypothesis of innate ideas is too long to be reproduced here . It comes to this : ( 1 ) It is a useless hypothesis , since the steps to knowledge are all discoverable . If this be the case , why ...
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... ideas are either simple or complex . By simple ideas Locke means such qualities as coldness , hardness , sweetness , redness , as perceived in some particular object on some particu- lar occasion . These simple ideas , either of ...
... ideas are either simple or complex . By simple ideas Locke means such qualities as coldness , hardness , sweetness , redness , as perceived in some particular object on some particu- lar occasion . These simple ideas , either of ...
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AN INTRODUCTION | 2 |
A Metaphysical Problem | 90 |
An Epistemological Problem | 169 |
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