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John Locke

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Section S9

Section 137 of 1,114

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Besides these there is another idea, which, though suggested by our senses, yet is more constantly offered to us by what passes in our minds; and that is the idea of SUCCESSION. For if we look immediately into ourselves, and reflect on what is observable there, we shall find our ideas always, whilst we are awake, or have any thought, passing in train, one going and another coming, without intermission.

French

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

Outre ces Idées, il y en a une autre, qui, quoi qu’elle nous ſoit proprement communiquée par les Sens, nous eſt néanmoins offerte plus conſtamment par ce qui ſe paſſe dans notre Eſprit ; & cette Idée eſt celle de la Succeſſion. Car ſi nous nous conſiderons immédiatement nous-mêmes, & que nous reflechiſſions ſur ce qui peut y être obſervé, nous trouverons toûjours, que, tandis que nous ſommes éveillez, ou que nous penſons actuellement, nos Idées paſſent, pour ainſi dire, à la file, l’une allant, & l’autre venant, ſans aucune intermiſſion.

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