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John Locke
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Section S8
Section 8 of 1,114
Canonical reference B1.C1.S8
English
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Thus much I thought necessary to say concerning the occasion of this inquiry into human Understanding. But, before I proceed on to what I have thought on this subject, I must here in the entrance beg pardon of my reader for the frequent use of the word IDEA, which he will find in the following treatise. It being that term which, I think, serves best to stand for whatsoever is the OBJECT of the understanding when a man thinks, I have used it to express whatever is meant by PHANTASM, NOTION, SPECIES, or WHATEVER IT IS WHICH THE MIND CAN BE EMPLOYED ABOUT IN THINKING; and I could not avoid frequently using it. I presume it will be easily granted me, that there are such IDEAS in men’s minds: every one is conscious of them in himself; and men’s words and actions will satisfy him that they are in others.
Our first inquiry then shall be, - how they come into the mind.
French
Pierre Coste · Pierre Mortier, Amsterdam, 1735, third edition
Voilà ce que j’ai jugé néceſſaire de dire touchant l’occaſion qui m’a fait entreprendre cet Ouvrage. Mais avant que d’entrer en matiére, je prierai mon Lecteur d’excuſer le fréquent uſage que j’ai fait du mot d’Idée dans le Traité ſuivant. Comme ce terme eſt, ce me ſemble, le plus propre qu’on puiſſe employer pour ſignifier tout ce qui eſt l’objet de notre Entendement lors que nous penſons, je m’en ſuis ſervi pour exprimer tout ce qu’on entend par fantôme, notion, eſpèce, ou quoi que ce puiſſe être qui occupe notre Eſprit lors qu’il penſe ; & je n’aurois pû éviter de m’en ſervir auſſi ſouvent que j’ai fait.
Je croi qu’on n’aura pas de peine à m’accorder qu’il y a de telles idées dans l’Eſprit des hommes. Chacun les ſent en ſoi-même, & peut s’aſſûrer qu’elles ſe rencontrent dans les autres Hommes, s’il prend la peine d’examiner leurs diſcours & leurs actions.
Nous allons voir préſentement de quelle maniére ces Idées viennent dans l’Eſprit.
Concepts in this passage
Degrees of knowledge and probability
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Elenchus
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Family
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Forgiveness
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Ideas from sensation and reflection
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Impressions and assent
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Knowledge
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Mindfulness
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Necessity
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Nominal and real essence
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Personal identity and consciousness
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Prayer
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Primary and secondary qualities
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Reason
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Service
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Simple and complex ideas
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Sin
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Spirit
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Wisdom
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