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John Locke
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Section S18
Section 1,060 of 1,114
Canonical reference B4.C17.S18
English
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Though the deducing one proposition from another, or making inferences in WORDS, be a great part of reason, and that which it is usually employed about; yet the principal act of ratiocination is THE FINDING THE AGREEMENT OR DISAGREEMENT OF TWO IDEAS ONE WITH ANOTHER, BY THE INTERVENTION OF A THIRD. As a man, by a yard, finds two houses to be of the same length, which could not be brought together to measure their equality by juxta-position. Words have their consequences, as the signs of such ideas: and things agree or disagree, as really they are; but we observe it only by our ideas.
French
Pierre Coste · Pierre Mortier, Amsterdam, 1735, third edition
Quoi qu’une grande partie des fonctions de la Raiſon, & ce qui en fait le ſujet ordinaire, ce ſoit de déduire une Propoſition d’une autre, ou de tirer des conſéquences par des paroles ; cependant le principal acte du Raiſonnement conſiſte à trouver la convenance ou la diſconvenance de deux Idées par l’entremiſe d’une troiſiéme, comme un homme trouve par le moyen d’une Aune que la même longueur convient à deux Maiſons qu’on ne ſauroit joindre enſemble pour en meſurer l’égalité par une juxta-poſition. Les Mots ont leurs conſéquences entant qu’ils ſont ſignes de telles ou telles Idées ; & les choſes conviennent ou diſconviennent ſelon ce qu’elles ſont réellement, mais nous ne pouvons découvrir que par les Idées que nous en avons.
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