 | Benjamin Chapman Burt - Philosophy, Modern - 1892 - 378 pages
...exceeding its comprehension, to stop where it is, at the utmost extent of its tether, and to sit down in quiet ignorance of those things which upon examination...are found to be beyond the reach of our capacities ; our business in this world being not to know all things, but only those which concern our conduct,"... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1894 - 692 pages
...understanding, I Ex°ent of can discover the powers thereof; how far they reach ; to what our Com- things they are in any degree proportionate * ; and...are found to be beyond the reach of our capacities. We should not then perhaps be so forward, out of an affectation of an universal knowledge, to raise... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1902 - 864 pages
...no certain knowledge : and here we shall have occasion to examine the reasons and degrees of assent. ever convenience We should not then perhaps be so forward, out of an affectation of an universal knowledge, to raise... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1902 - 860 pages
...no certain knowledge : and here we shall have occasion to examine the reasons and degrees of assent. signs, While practice grovelled We should not then perhaps be so forward, out of an affectation of an universal knowledge, to raise... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1905 - 424 pages
...reason? and degrees of assent. 4, Uscfiil to know the extent of our comprehension, — If by this inquiry into the nature of the understanding, I can discover...are found to be beyond the reach of our capacities. We should not then, perhaps, be so forward, out of an affectation of an universal knowledge, to raise... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1905 - 382 pages
...reasons and degrees of assent. 4. Useful to know the extent of our comprehension. — If by this inquiry into the nature of the understanding, I can discover...are found to be beyond the reach of our capacities. We should not then, perhaps, be so forward, out of an affectation of an universal knowledge, to raise... | |
 | Arthur Kenyon Rogers - Philosophy - 1907 - 540 pages
...are to be found amongst men, so various, different, and wholly contradictory." 1 " If by this inquiry into the nature of the understanding, I can discover...are found to be beyond the reach of our capacities. We should not then perhaps be so forward, out of an affectation of a universal knowledge, to raise... | |
 | Harold Arthur Prichard - Knowledge, Theory of - 1909 - 386 pages
...in any degree proportionate, and where they fail us; I suppose it 1 Locke's Eitay, i, 1, §§ 2, 4. may be of use to prevail with the busy mind of man,...those things, which, upon examination, are found to bo beyond the reach of our capacities." Thus, to use Dr. Caird's analogy,1 the task which both Locke... | |
 | Richard Sporbert - God - 1910 - 94 pages
...Principles of Human Knowledge, to sift and examine them on all sides, . . . 3 HU b. J, ch. 1, § 4: If, by this enquiry into the nature of the understanding,...are found to be beyond the reach of our capacities. und eine rein phänomenalistische Erkenntnis der objektiven Außenwelt zu begründen, eine Leistung,... | |
 | John Grier Hibben - Enlightenment - 1910 - 340 pages
...things we have, and can set down any measures of the certainty of our knowledge. ... If, by this inquiry into the nature of the understanding, I can discover...are found to be beyond the reach of our capacities. We should not then, perhaps, be so forward, out of an affectation of an universal knowledge, to raise... | |
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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... 
