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John Locke
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Section S11
Section 19 of 1,114
Canonical reference B1.C2.S11
English
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Those who will take the pains to reflect with a little attention on the operations of the understanding, will find that this ready assent of the mind to some truths, depends not, either on native inscription, or the use of reason, but on a faculty of the mind quite distinct from both of them, as we shall see hereafter. Reason, therefore, having nothing to do in procuring our assent to these maxims, if by saying, that “men know and assent to them, when they come to the use of reason,” be meant, that the use of reason assists us in the knowledge of these maxims, it is utterly false; and were it true, would prove them not to be innate.
French
Pierre Coste · Pierre Mortier, Amsterdam, 1735, third edition
Tous ceux qui voudront prendre la peine de réfléchir avec un peu d’attention ſur les operations de l’Entendement, trouveront que ce conſentement que l’Eſprit donne ſans peine à certaines véritez, ne dépend en aucune maniére, ni de l’impreſſion naturelle qui en aît été faite dans l’Ame, ni de l’uſage de la Raiſon, mais d’une Faculté de l’Eſprit Humain, qui eſt tout-à-fait différente de ces deux choſes, comme nous le verrons dans la ſuite. Puis donc que la Raiſon ne contribuë en aucune maniére à nous faire recevoir ces Prémiers Principes, ſi ceux qui ſoûtiennent que les Hommes les connoiſſent & y donnent leur conſentement, dès qu’ils viennent à faire uſage de leur Raiſon, veulent dire par-là, que l’Uſage de la Raiſon nous conduit à la connoiſſance de ces Principes, cela eſt entiérement faux ; & quand il ſeroit véritable, il ne prouveroit point que ces Maximes ſoient innées.
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