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| Alphabetical [« »] preference 22 preferment 1 preferred 5 preferring 13 prefers 6 prefixed 1 prejudice 6 | Frequency [« »] 13 palate 13 persuasions 13 possessed 13 preferring 13 pretty 13 prevail 13 proceeding | John Locke An essay concerning human understanding IntraText - Concordances preferring |
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1 II, XXI| viz. of perceiving, and of preferring, are usually called by another 2 II, XXI| belonging to volition, or preferring; but to the person having 3 II, XXI| ordering, directing, choosing, preferring, &c., which I have made 4 II, XXI| when he wills. For example, preferring, which seems perhaps best 5 II, XXI| direction or choice of his mind, preferring the existence of any action 6 II, XXI| like thought of my mind, preferring one to the other, produce 7 II, XXI| determination of his own thought preferring either, so far is a man 8 II, XXI| so far as any one can, by preferring any action to its not being, 9 II, XXI| what he will. For such a preferring of action to its absence, 10 II, XXI| the act of volition, or preferring one of the two, being that 11 II, XXI| of volition, by choosing, preferring, and the like terms, that 12 II, XXI| desire, or the power of preferring, should be determined by 13 II, XXI| are, by the necessity of preferring and pursuing true happiness