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John Locke
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Section S3
Section 167 of 1,114
Canonical reference B2.C9.S3
English
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This is certain, that whatever alterations are made in the body, if they reach not the mind; whatever impressions are made on the outward parts, if they are not taken notice of within, there is no perception. Fire may burn our bodies with no other effect than it does a billet, unless the motion be continued to the brain, and there the sense of heat, or idea of pain, be produced in the mind; wherein consists actual perception.
French
Pierre Coste · Pierre Mortier, Amsterdam, 1735, third edition
Ce qu’il y a de certain, c’eſt que quelques alterations, quelques impreſſions qui ſe faſſent dans notre Corps ou ſur ſes parties extérieures, il n’y a point de perception, ſi l’Eſprit n’eſt pas actuellement frappé de ces alterations, ſi ces impreſſions ne parviennent point juſque dans l’intérieur de notre Ame. Le feu, par exemple, peut brûler notre Corps, ſans produire d’autre effet ſur nous, que ſur une piéce de bois qu’il conſume, à moins que le mouvement cauſé dans notre Corps par le Feu, ne ſoit continue juſqu’au Cerveau ; & qu’il ne s’excite dans notre Eſprit un ſentiment de chaleur ou une idée de douleur, en quoi conſiſte l’actuelle perception.
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