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John Locke
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Section S7
Section 937 of 1,114
Canonical reference B4.C7.S7
English
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Concerning real Existence, we have none.
FOURTHLY, as to REAL EXISTANCE, since that has no connexion with any other of our ideas, but that of ourselves, and of a First Being, we have in that, concerning the real existence of all other beings, not so much as demonstrative, much less a self-evident knowledge: and, therefore, concerning those, there are no maxims.
French
Pierre Coste · Pierre Mortier, Amsterdam, 1735, third edition
En quatriéme lieu, à l’égard de l’exiſtence réelle, comme elle n’a de liaiſon avec aucune autre de nos Idées qu’avec celle de Nous-mêmes & du Prémier Etre, tant s’en faut que nous ayions ſur l’exiſtence réelle de tous les autres Etres une connoiſſance qui nous ſoit évidente par elle-même, que nous n’avons pas même une connoiſſance démonſtrative. Et par conſéquent il n’y a point d’Axiome ſur leur ſujet.
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