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John Locke
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Section S3
Section 3 of 1,114
Canonical reference B1.C1.S3
English
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It is therefore worth while to search out the bounds between opinion and knowledge; and examine by what measures, in things whereof we have no certain knowledge, we ought to regulate our assent and moderate our persuasion. In order whereunto I shall pursue this following method: - First, I shall inquire into the original of those ideas, notions, or whatever else you please to call them, which a man observes, and is conscious to himself he has in his mind; and the ways whereby the understanding comes to be furnished with them.
Secondly, I shall endeavour to show what knowledge the understanding hath by those ideas; and the certainty, evidence, and extent of it.
Thirdly, I shall make some inquiry into the nature and grounds of FAITH or OPINION: whereby I mean that assent which we give to any proposition as true, of whose truth yet we have no certain knowledge. And here we shall have occasion to examine the reasons and degrees of ASSENT.
French
Pierre Coste · Pierre Mortier, Amsterdam, 1735, third edition
C’eſt donc une choſe bien digne de nos ſoins, de chercher les bornes qui ſéparent l’Opinion d’avec la Connoiſſance, & d’examiner quelles règles il faut obſerver pour déterminer exactement les dégrez de notre perſuaſion à l’égard des choſes dont nous n’avons pas une connoiſſance certaine. Pour cet effet, voici la Méthode que j’ai réſolu de ſuivre dans cet Ouvrage.
I. J’examinerai prémiérement, quelle eſt l’origine des Idées, Notions, ou comme il vous plaira de les appeler, que l’Homme apperçoit dans ſon Ame, & que ſon propre ſentiment l’y fait découvrir ; & par quels moyens l’Entendement vient à recevoir toutes ces idées.
II. En ſecond lieu, je tâcherai de montrer quelle eſt la connoiſſance que l’Entendement acquiert par le moyen de ces Idées ; & quelle eſt la Certitude, l’Evidence, & l’Etenduë de cette connoiſſance.
III. Je rechercherai en troiſiéme lieu, la nature & les fondemens de ce qu’on nomme Foi, ou Opinion ; par où j’entens Cet Aſſentiment que nous donnons à une Propoſition entant que véritable, mais de la vérité de laquelle nous n’avons pas une connoiſſance certaine. Et de là je prendrai occaſion d’examiner les raiſons & les dégrez de l’aſſentiment qu’on donne à différentes Propoſitions.
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