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John Locke

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Section S8

Section 136 of 1,114

Canonical reference B2.C7.S8

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POWER also is another of those simple ideas which we receive from sensation and reflection. For, observing in ourselves that we do and can think, and that we can at pleasure move several parts of our bodies which were at rest; the effects, also, that natural bodies are able to produce in one another, occurring every moment to our senses, - we both these ways get the idea of power.

French

Pierre Coste · Pierre Mortier, Amsterdam, 1735, third edition

La Puiſſance eſt encore une de ces Idées ſimples que nous recevons par Senſation & par Réflexion. Car venant à obſerver en nous-mêmes, que nous penſons & que nous pouvons penſer, que nous pouvons, quand nous voulons, mettre en mouvement certaines parties de notre Corps qui ſont en repos, & d’ailleurs les effets que les Corps naturels ſont capables de produire les uns ſur les autres, ſe préſentant, à tout moment, à nos Sens, nous acquerons par ces deux voyes l’idée de la Puiſſance.

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