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John Locke
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Section S26
Section 371 of 1,114
Canonical reference B2.C21.S26
English
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To avoid these and the like absurdities, nothing can be of greater use than to establish in our minds determined ideas of the things under consideration. If the ideas of liberty and volition were well fixed in our understandings, and carried along with us in our minds, as they ought, through all the questions that are raised about them, I suppose a great part of the difficulties that perplex men’s thoughts, and entangle their understandings, would be much easier resolved; and we should perceive where the confused signification of terms, or where the nature of the thing caused the obscurity.
French
Pierre Coste · Pierre Mortier, Amsterdam, 1735, third edition
Pour éviter ces abſurditez & autres ſemblables, rien ne peut être plus utile, que d’établir dans notre Eſprit des Idées diſtinctes & déterminées des choſes en queſtion. Car ſi les Idées de Liberté & de Volition étoient bien fixées dans notre Entendement, & que nous les euſſions toûjours préſentes à l’Eſprit telles qu’elles ſont, pour les appliquer à toutes les Queſtions qu’on a excitées ſur ces deux articles, je croi que la plûpart des difficultez qui embarraſſent & brouillent l’Eſprit des Hommes ſur cette matiére, ſeroient beaucoup plus aiſément réſoluës ; & par-là nous verrions où c’eſt que l’obſcurité procederoit de la ſignification confuſe des termes, ou de la nature même des choſes.
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