Siris: a Chain of Philosophical Reflexions and Inquiries Concerning the Virtues of Tar Water,: And Divers Other Subjects Connected Together and Arising One from AnotherDublin printed, London re-printed, for W. Innys, and C. Hitch, in Pater-noster-row; and C. Davis in Holbourn., 1744 - 164 pages |
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Page 112
In all this we know or understand no more , than that bodies are moved according
to a certain order , and that they do not move themselves . 237 . So likewise , how
to explain all those vari . ous motions and effects , by the density and elastic ...
In all this we know or understand no more , than that bodies are moved according
to a certain order , and that they do not move themselves . 237 . So likewise , how
to explain all those vari . ous motions and effects , by the density and elastic ...
Page 121
We know a thing when we understand it : and we understand it , when we can
interpret or cell what it signifies . Strictly the sense knows nothing . We perceive
indeed sounds by hearing , and characters by light : but we are not therefore said
to ...
We know a thing when we understand it : and we understand it , when we can
interpret or cell what it signifies . Strictly the sense knows nothing . We perceive
indeed sounds by hearing , and characters by light : but we are not therefore said
to ...
Page 129
With regard to absolute space , it is observed in the Asclepian dialogue , that the
word Space or Place hath by it self no meaning ; and again , that it is impossible
to understand what space alone or pure space is . And Plotinus acknowledgech ...
With regard to absolute space , it is observed in the Asclepian dialogue , that the
word Space or Place hath by it self no meaning ; and again , that it is impossible
to understand what space alone or pure space is . And Plotinus acknowledgech ...
Page 149
To understand and co be , are according to Parmenides the same thing . And
Plato in his seventh leiter makes no difference between vgs and é mosóun , mind
and knowledge . Whence it follows , that mind , knowledge , and notions , either
in ...
To understand and co be , are according to Parmenides the same thing . And
Plato in his seventh leiter makes no difference between vgs and é mosóun , mind
and knowledge . Whence it follows , that mind , knowledge , and notions , either
in ...
Page 153
Neither Plato nor Aristotle by matter , van , understood corporeal substance ,
whatever the moderns may understand by that ' word . To them certainly it
signified no positive actual being Aristotle describes it as made up of negatives ,
having ...
Neither Plato nor Aristotle by matter , van , understood corporeal substance ,
whatever the moderns may understand by that ' word . To them certainly it
signified no positive actual being Aristotle describes it as made up of negatives ,
having ...
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| Title | Siris: a Chain of Philosophical Reflexions and Inquiries Concerning the Virtues of Tar Water,: And Divers Other Subjects Connected Together and Arising One from Another Siris: a Chain of Philosophical Reflexions and Inquiries Concerning the Virtues of Tar Water,: And Divers Other Subjects Connected Together and Arising One from Another, George Berkeley |
| Author | George Berkeley |
| Contributors | Margaret Rhames, William Bowyer, William Innys, Charles Hitch, Charles Davis |
| Publisher | Dublin printed, London re-printed, for W. Innys, and C. Hitch, in Pater-noster-row; and C. Davis in Holbourn., 1744 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 20 apr. 2009 |
| Length | 164 pages |
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