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John Locke
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Section S1
Section 165 of 1,114
Canonical reference B2.C9.S1
English
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PERCEPTION, as it is the first faculty of the mind exercised about our ideas; so it is the first and simplest idea we have from reflection, and is by some called thinking in general. Though thinking, in the propriety of the English tongue, signifies that sort of operation in the mind about its ideas, wherein the mind is active; where it, with some degree of voluntary attention, considers anything. For in bare naked perception, the mind is, for the most part, only passive; and what it perceives, it cannot avoid perceiving.
French
Pierre Coste · Pierre Mortier, Amsterdam, 1735, third edition
LA Perception eſt la prémiére Faculté de l’Ame qui eſt occupée de nos Idées. C’eſt auſſi la prémiére & la plus ſimple idée que nous recevions par le moyen de la Réflexion. Quelques-uns la déſignent par le nom général de Penſée. Mais comme ce dernier mot ſignifie ſouvent l’opération de l’Eſprit ſur ſes propres Idées lors qu’il agit, & qu’il conſidere une choſe avec un certain dégré d’attention volontaire, il vaut mieux employer ici le terme de Perception, qui fait mieux comprendre la nature de cette Faculté. Car dans ce qu’on nomme ſimplement Perception, l’Eſprit eſt, pour l’ordinaire, purement paſſif, ne pouvant éviter d’appercevoir ce qu’il apperçoit actuellement.
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