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501 II, XXIX | still a greater: but it not being possible for him to include 502 II, XXIX | of an infinite number, by being able still to add new numbers 503 II, XXIX | infinite number: they both being only in a power still of 504 II, XXIX | will: the remaining abyss being still as far beyond the 505 II, XXX | conformity with the real being and existence of things, 506 II, XXX | conformity with that reality of being to which they are tacitly 507 II, XXX | and coldness, pain, &c., being in us the effects of powers 508 II, XXX | these several appearances being designed to be the mark 509 II, XXX | them in our minds; that being all that is requisite to 510 II, XXX | complex ideas. For those being combinations of simple ideas 511 II, XXX | These ideas themselves, being archetypes, cannot differ 512 II, XXX | capable of any deformity, being made with no reference to 513 II, XXX | complex ideas of substances, being made all of them in reference 514 II, XXX | these ideas of substances, being made conformable to no pattern 515 II, XXXI | ideas are adequate. Because, being nothing but the effects 516 II, XXXI | or of the fire. But these being nothing, in truth, but powers 517 II, XXXI | of secondary qualities as being in things; or of their ideas 518 II, XXXI | things; or of their ideas as being the objects that excite 519 II, XXXI | there were any sensible being to perceive them or no: 520 II, XXXI | sensations from bodies. But this being an inquiry not belonging 521 II, XXXI | complex ideas of modes, being voluntary collections of 522 II, XXXI | ideas. Because they, not being intended for copies of things 523 II, XXXI | mixed modes and relations, being archetypes without patterns, 524 II, XXXI | be adequate, everything being so to itself. He that at 525 II, XXXI | without disturbance, or being deterred by the danger of 526 II, XXXI | necessarily be adequate, being referred to nothing else 527 II, XXXI | of some other intelligent being, expressed by the names 528 II, XXXI | they have in their minds, being referred to real essences, 529 II, XXXI | unknown, must be so far from being adequate that they cannot 530 II, XXXI | only to presume that, it being nothing but body, its real 531 II, XXXI | some sorts) powers; which being relations to other substances, 532 II, XXXI | ways of application: which being impossible to be tried upon 533 II, XXXI | body of equal bulk, they being put into a pair of equal 534 II, XXXI | 11. Ideas of substances, being got only by collecting their 535 II, XXXI | certainly adequate. Because, being intended to express nothing 536 II, XXXI | such idea in itself: and being meant for nothing else but 537 II, XXXI | sensation of white, in my mind, being the effect of that power 538 II, XXXI | exactly to answer. These being such collections of simple 539 II, XXXII | denomination. For our ideas, being nothing but bare appearances, 540 II, XXXII | our ideas are capable of being true or false, but in the 541 II, XXXII | the ideas in our minds, being only so many perceptions 542 II, XXXII | capable, any of them, of being false, till the mind passes 543 II, XXXII | natural tendency of the mind being towards knowledge; and finding 544 II, XXXII | But this abstract idea, being something in the mind, between 545 II, XXXII | common use stand for; they being but few in number, and such 546 II, XXXII | much more uncertain; it being not so easy to determine 547 II, XXXII | abstract ideas of mixed modes, being men’s voluntary combinations 548 II, XXXII | essence of each species being made by men alone, whereof 549 II, XXXII | First, our simple ideas, being barely such perceptions 550 II, XXXII | whatever it consists in; that being beyond our capacities distinctly 551 II, XXXII | reasons offered: but that being besides my present business, 552 II, XXXII | been said, only in their being answerable to the powers 553 II, XXXII | in us, and each of them being in the mind such as it is, 554 II, XXXII | complex ideas of substances, being all referred to patterns 555 II, XXXII | the complex idea of gold being made up of such simple ones 556 II, XXXII | For truth or falsehood, being never without some affirmation 557 II, XXXII | cannot be thought false, being exact representations of 558 II, XXXII | another man’s idea, without being so. First, when the mind 559 II, XXXII | judged adequate, without being so. (3) When in its complex 560 II, XXXII | it to represent some real being without me, or to be the 561 II, XXXII | then they are capable of being wrong, as far as they disagree 562 II, XXXIII| it brings (the impression being once made) that of the pain 563 II, XXXIII| observed. Let the ideas of being and matter be strongly joined, 564 III, I | they come to be made. These being (as they ought) well looked 565 III, I | concerning knowledge: which, being conversant about propositions, 566 III, II | advantage of society not being to be had without communication 567 III, II | men have of these marks being either to record their own 568 III, II | signification at all. Words being voluntary signs, they cannot 569 III, II | considered:~First, that they being immediately the signs of 570 III, III | terms. All things that exist being particulars, it may perhaps 571 III, III | for the same reason; they being such as men have often an 572 III, III | Words become general by being made the signs of general 573 III, III | substance, and at last to being, thing, and such universal 574 III, III | sometimes the shame of not being able to do it. But though 575 III, III | necessary. For, definition being nothing but making another 576 III, III | definitions, as has been said, being only the explaining of one 577 III, III | making; their general nature being nothing but the capacity 578 III, III | each of them does that, by being a sign of an abstract idea 579 III, III | essence of any species, being that which makes anything 580 III, III | which the name is annexed being that which gives a right 581 III, III | which is the essence of one being impossible to be communicated 582 III, III | may be taken for the very being of anything, whereby it 583 III, III | notation, signifying properly, being. And in this sense it is 584 III, III | co-existing must depend. But, it being evident that things are 585 III, III | attributed to any particular being but what has this essence, 586 III, III | in substances. Essences being thus distinguished into 587 III, III | essence of a triangle; it being not only the abstract idea 588 III, III | but the very essentia or being of the thing itself; that 589 III, III | with them. But essences being taken for ideas established 590 III, IV | what are not, capable of being defined; the want whereof 591 III, IV | terms. The meaning of words being only the ideas they are 592 III, IV | ideas, why undefinable. This being premised, I say that the 593 III, IV | those only, are incapable of being defined. The reason whereof 594 III, IV | definition:—“The act of a being in power, as far forth as 595 III, IV | it stands for. For, words being sounds, can produce in us 596 III, IV | judgment of a blind man; who being brought where there was 597 III, IV | skill of the workman. But being led to the picture, and 598 III, IV | that make that complex one, being such as he never received 599 III, IV | parts, whereof more or less being put in, the idea may be 600 III, IV | that the lowest species being but one simple idea, nothing 601 III, IV | that so the difference being taken away, it may agree 602 III, IV | general name; as rationality being left out of the complex 603 III, V | The names of mixed modes, being general, they stand, as 604 III, V | supposition of some real being, from which they are taken, 605 III, V | whilst yet they had no being but in the understanding, 606 III, V | understanding, where they have a being as subservient to all the 607 III, V | of the truth of this, it being so obvious to observe great 608 III, V | parts of those complex ideas being made by the mind, this union, 609 III, V | out by name: because they, being of man’s making only, in 610 III, V | the original patterns as being in the mind, and to those 611 III, V | understanding.~13. Their being made by the understanding 612 III, V | substances. Because they being the workmanship of the understanding, 613 III, V | For, these abstract ideas being the workmanship of the mind, 614 III, V | perfectly known. Because there being no species of these ordinarily 615 III, V | or rather their essences, being abstract complex ideas, 616 III, V | it is otherwise, which, being such ideas as have a real 617 III, V | happens.~16. Reason of my being so large on this subject. 618 III, VI | is nothing else but the being made signs of such complex 619 III, VI | which they are capable of being comprehended in one common 620 III, VI | world, yet the idea of it being abstracted, so that more 621 III, VI | other particular corporeal being, to have reason? I say, 622 III, VI | But if that particular being be to be counted of the 623 III, VI | such patterns and standards being quite laid aside, particular 624 III, VI | under the name, iron, or as being of a certain species. And 625 III, VI | supposes a species. For, being that real constitution on 626 III, VI | the consideration of its being ranked under the name of 627 III, VI | substances, we only suppose their being, without precisely knowing 628 III, VI | name, and so received as being of one species, have yet 629 III, VI | reference, not so much to the being of particular things, as 630 III, VI | infinitely wise and happy being. And though we are told 631 III, VI | no more simple ideas (nor being able to frame more) applicable 632 III, VI | own minds in thinking, and being delighted, and moving several 633 III, VI | power, and motion, &c., being ideas derived from the operations 634 III, VI | can an idea of the First Being; who yet, it is certain, 635 III, VI | than there are beneath; we being, in degrees of perfection, 636 III, VI | remote from the infinite being of GOD than we are from 637 III, VI | from the lowest state of being, and that which approaches 638 III, VI | neither can this be done. For, being ignorant of the real essence 639 III, VI | it, that any one of them being away, we may certainly conclude 640 III, VI | never give any signs of being acted by a rational soul. 641 III, VI | child, we see, was very near being excluded out of the species 642 III, VI | species are so far from being determined, and the precise 643 III, VI | nominal essence so far from being settled and perfectly known, 644 III, VI | and every man’s words, being intelligible only to himself, 645 III, VI | so afford a foundation of being ranked into sorts. But the 646 III, VI | of determinate species, being in order to naming and comprehending 647 III, VI | To which the name metal being annexed, there is a genus 648 III, VI | constituted; the essence whereof being that abstract idea, containing 649 III, VI | sorts of things. For, it being different essences alone 650 III, VI | necessary, if not to the being, yet at least to the completing 651 III, VI | Because an artificial thing being a production of man, which 652 III, VI | a horse and a dog; they being expressed in our minds by 653 III, VI | greatest part of mixed modes, being actions which perish in 654 III, VI | is plain it was; for it being a combination of simple 655 III, VI | not but be adequate; it being referred to no other archetype 656 III, VI | them: but the use of names being to make our ideas within 657 III, VI | ideas, abstract ideas. they being general names; which abstract 658 III, VI | liable to be inadequate, as being very apt (especially those 659 III, VI | of him that uses it: it being as impossible to know certainly 660 III, VI | without explication; they being voluntary signs in every 661 III, VI | by nature; and therefore, being to represent that to himself, 662 III, VI | denominated zahab by Adam, being quite different from any 663 III, VI | means, that fixedness, not being a part of the definition 664 III, VI | be altered. Because men being furnished already with names 665 III, VIII | Now each abstract idea being distinct, so that of any 666 III, IX | language in communication being to be understood, words 667 III, IX | Philosophical Discourses; there being scarce any name of any very 668 III, IX | measure of propriety itself being nowhere established, it 669 III, IX | observation and industry; which being little laid out in the search 670 III, IX | ancient authors. But, there being no writings we have any 671 III, IX | apt to be called) essence, being utterly unknown to us, any 672 III, IX | the names of substances being referred to standards that 673 III, IX | to co-exist in substances being that which their names immediately 674 III, IX | united in the same subject, being very numerous, and having 675 III, IX | make up the complex ideas, being most of them powers, in 676 III, IX | faculties are capable of. They being therefore at least so many, 677 III, IX | complex ideas of substances, being made up of such simple ones 678 III, IX | solubility in aqua regia being a quality as constantly 679 III, IX | nature of these qualities being the true ground of their 680 III, IX | yellow shining colour; which being the idea to which children 681 III, IX | substances; and so exclude from being gold all such yellow shining 682 III, IX | adds the weight, which, being a quality as straightly 683 III, IX | mean is this, That these being all but properties, depending 684 III, IX | the ideas they stand for, being each but one single perception, 685 III, IX | The names of substances, being annexed to ideas that are 686 III, IX | concerning knowledge: which being conversant about truth, 687 III, IX | it has been so far from being taken notice of as an inconvenience, 688 III, IX | search) either doubt of the being of a God, or of the obedience 689 III, X | they are in the wrong; it being all one to go about to draw 690 III, X | abuse of language. Words being intended for signs of my 691 III, X | hinder their weak parts from being discovered. That body and 692 III, X | any question; the victory being adjudged not to him who 693 III, X | beset with. For untruth being unacceptable to the mind 694 III, X | benefit of his reader. It being as senseless to put black, 695 III, X | everywhere uniform. This being our idea of matter, we no 696 III, X | for something, which, not being in our complex idea, the 697 III, X | composition of the complex one being left out or changed, it 698 III, X | no signification at all, being put for somewhat whereof 699 III, X | signifying one thing, and being supposed for, or put in 700 III, X | essences that we know not, it being in effect to make our words 701 III, X | certainly knowing it but by being informed. This abuse of 702 III, X | our discourse with others being chiefly these three: First, 703 III, X | centaur stands for some real being, imposes on himself, and 704 III, X | existence of things: for modes being complex ideas, made by the 705 III, X | at pleasure, and relation being but by way of considering 706 III, X | mind, much less any real being ever be denominated from 707 III, XI | above at large: and speech being the great bond that holds 708 III, XI | with others. For language being the great conduit, whereby 709 III, XI | expressed by that word, being quite different.~7. Instance, 710 III, XI | they may be used; but there being no natural connexion between 711 III, XI | languages already framed, being no man’s private possession, 712 III, XI | venture to do, for fear of being though guilty of affectation 713 III, XI | ideas); or where the term, being very material in the discourse, 714 III, XI | those belonging to morality, being most of them such combinations 715 III, XI | exactly defined. For they being combinations of several 716 III, XI | species is to be known, they being not of nature’s, but man’ 717 III, XI | idea, a corporeal rational being. For, were there a monkey, 718 III, XI | the ideas they stand for, being for the most part such whose 719 III, XI | made use of. For, there being ordinarily in each sort 720 III, XI | our names of substances being not put barely for our ideas, 721 III, XI | barely for our ideas, but being made use of ultimately to 722 III, XI | verity, in that children, being taught words, whilst they 723 III, XI | by them. Which custom (it being easy, and serving well enough 724 III, XI | using that sound, there being no other way, without such 725 III, XI | familiar to him. But common use being but a very uncertain rule, 726 IV, I | our finite understandings being able to think clearly and 727 IV, I | know but one truth, that being all he was able to think 728 IV, II | eye doth light, only by being directed towards it. Thus 729 IV, II | to be a sceptic, without being able to be so. Certainty 730 IV, II | reasoning. Thus, the mind being willing to know the agreement 731 IV, II | called demonstration; it being shown to the understanding, 732 IV, II | intuitively be perceived, being, as I imagine, not the privilege 733 IV, II | those other simple ideas, being appearances of sensations 734 IV, II | difference, the only help we have being from our senses, which in 735 IV, II | difference between dreaming of being in the fire, and being actually 736 IV, II | of being in the fire, and being actually in it. But yet 737 IV, II | maintain, that what I call being actually in the fire is 738 IV, III | disagreement. Which perception being: 1. Either by intuition, 739 IV, III | whether any mere material being thinks or no; it being impossible 740 IV, III | material being thinks or no; it being impossible for us, by the 741 IV, III | immaterial substance: it being, in respect of our notions, 742 IV, III | cannot be in any created being, but merely by the good 743 IV, III | the first Eternal thinking Being, or Omnipotent Spirit, should, 744 IV, III | that Eternal first-thinking Being. What certainty of knowledge 745 IV, III | far as we can conceive, being able only to strike and 746 IV, III | utmost reach of our ideas, being able to produce nothing 747 IV, III | we are at present in, not being that of vision, we must 748 IV, III | confirm the certainty of its being, though we must content 749 IV, III | ignorance of what kind of being it is: and it is in vain 750 IV, III | be positive against the being of anything, because we 751 IV, III | the species of substances being, as I have showed, nothing 752 IV, III | another: but our minds not being able to discover any connexion 753 IV, III | demonstration. The idea of a supreme Being, infinite in power, goodness, 754 IV, III | understanding, rational creatures, being such as are clear in us, 755 IV, III | for the idea of property being a right to anything, and 756 IV, III | name “injustice” is given being the invasion or violation 757 IV, III | evident that these ideas, being thus established, and these 758 IV, III | The idea of government being the establishment of society 759 IV, III | idea of absolute liberty being for any one to do whatever 760 IV, III | pleases; I am as capable of being certain of the truth of 761 IV, III | ideas they stand for not being so easily agreed on; and 762 IV, III | ideas, where the same name being retained, one angle, i.e. 763 IV, III | their deformity. Nothing being so beautiful to the eye 764 IV, III | ignorance great. Our knowledge being so narrow, as I have shown, 765 IV, III | of our ignorance; which, being infinitely larger than our 766 IV, III | want of ideas of this kind, being a part as well as cause 767 IV, III | things we conceive capable of being known to us. Bulk, figure, 768 IV, III | from us, in some things by being too remote, and in others 769 IV, III | remote, and in others by being too minute. When we consider 770 IV, III | confined to this earth; there being no natural means, either 771 IV, III | These insensible corpuscles, being the active parts of matter, 772 IV, III | that, some small part of it being rubbed by a file, the machine 773 IV, III | they produce in us, (there being no conceivable connexion 774 IV, III | things; yet that connexion being not discoverable in the 775 IV, III | communication of motion being such, wherein we can discover 776 IV, III | connexions and dependencies being not discoverable in our 777 IV, III | in, how little it is of Being, and the things that are, 778 IV, III | that we are so far from being able to comprehend the whole 779 IV, III | are, I think, so far from being capable of any such thing, 780 IV, III | filled with; whilst students, being lost in the great wood of 781 IV, IV | except those of substances, being archetypes of the mind’s 782 IV, IV | matter: his consideration being barely of those figures, 783 IV, IV | mathematics. For certainty being but the perception of the 784 IV, IV | as well as mathematical, being archetypes themselves, and 785 IV, IV | one to another, without being led away by their names. 786 IV, IV | of complex ideas, which, being referred to archetypes without 787 IV, IV | about them may come short of being real. Such are our ideas 788 IV, IV | may, and often do, fail of being exactly conformable to things 789 IV, IV | of substances which, by being conformable to things, may 790 IV, IV | our ideas of substances, being supposed copies, and referred 791 IV, IV | in nature. And our ideas being thus true, though not perhaps 792 IV, IV | Objection against a changeling being something between a man 793 IV, IV | content ourselves without being peremptory in defining the 794 IV, IV | designed to an immortal future being after this life: or, secondly, 795 IV, IV | changelings, the essence in both being exactly the same, to consider, 796 IV, V | many ages since; and it being that which all mankind either 797 IV, V | For a mental proposition being nothing but a bare consideration 798 IV, V | ideas these names stand for, being for the most part imperfect, 799 IV, V | them up. For many of them being compounded, the name occurs 800 IV, V | the idea of that inch line being divisible, or not divisible, 801 IV, V | nothing but our ideas, yet being designed by them to signify 802 IV, V | of verbal and real; that being only verbal truth, wherein 803 IV, V | propositions we are capable of being certain of their real truth 804 IV, V | taken notice of, or not being much to our present purpose, 805 IV, VI | themselves, their names being quite laid aside, be the 806 IV, VI | All the knowledge we have, being only of particular or general 807 IV, VI | usually call knowing, or being certain of the truth of 808 IV, VI | real and nominal essence being the same, or, which is all 809 IV, VI | general term stands for being the sole essence and boundary 810 IV, VI | not in this sense gold; being incurably ignorant whether 811 IV, VI | have no idea at all. This being as impossible for us to 812 IV, VI | with those other qualities being only by the intervention 813 IV, VI | dependence on one another; being ignorant both of that real 814 IV, VI | But we are so far from being admitted into the secrets 815 IV, VI | is certain of other, by being removed into a neighbouring 816 IV, VI | discovered. For how much the being and operation of particular 817 IV, VI | which does not owe the being it has, and the excellences 818 IV, VI | reason joined to it. This being the abstract idea, and consequently 819 IV, VII | to received axioms. This being so, in the next place, let 820 IV, VII | disagreement of identity being founded in the mind’s having 821 IV, VII | from another; which always being so, (it being impossible 822 IV, VII | which always being so, (it being impossible but that he should 823 IV, VII | whether the general idea of Being be affirmed of itself, as 824 IV, VII | or whether the idea of being in general be denied of 825 IV, VII | any idea of any particular being be denied of another different 826 IV, VII | right. The perception of being, or not being, belongs no 827 IV, VII | perception of being, or not being, belongs no more to these 828 IV, VII | contents of its superficies, being annexed to our idea of body, 829 IV, VII | ourselves, and of a First Being, we have in that, concerning 830 IV, VII | assent to such propositions, being nothing else but the perception 831 IV, VII | understands; and every idea being known to be what it is, 832 IV, VII | every two distinct ideas being known not to be the same; 833 IV, VII | few general ones; which being taken from the ordinary 834 IV, VII | equality of those ideas being as visible and certain to 835 IV, VII | times two are six? Which being known without any proof, 836 IV, VII | simple and less abstract being the most familiar, and the 837 IV, VII | received for true; which being settled in the minds of 838 IV, VII | into the Schools: which being such as all men allowed 839 IV, VII | brought to confirm; but that, being more familiar to the mind, 840 IV, VII | he annexes the name body, being bare extension, his knowledge 841 IV, VII | he gives the name space being barely the simple one of 842 IV, VII | which he gives the name body being the complex idea of extension 843 IV, VII | self-evident principles being only our constant, clear, 844 IV, VII | proposition, or knowledge, of any being existing without us. First, 845 IV, VII | flesh-colour in England being one, the child can demonstrate 846 IV, VII | foundation of his certainty being not that universal proposition, 847 IV, VII | quadrupes, neither of those being included in his idea of 848 IV, VIII | fetiche,” &c. These all being equivalent to this proposition, 849 IV, VIII | discourse knows without being told, viz. that the same 850 IV, VIII | concern not me, as not being such as I call identical.~ 851 IV, VIII | signified by the term metal, being nothing but what he before 852 IV, VIII | fusible.” For fusibility being one of the simple ideas 853 IV, VIII | neighing, ambling animal, both being only about the signification 854 IV, VIII | having the notion of God, nor being cast into sleep by opium, 855 IV, VIII | cast into sleep by opium, being contained in the idea signified 856 IV, VIII | essences lead us. Which being to a very few and inconsiderable 857 IV, VIII | less as he pleases, without being one jot the richer, or without 858 IV, IX | essences of things; which being only abstract ideas, and 859 IV, IX | particular existence, (that being the proper operation of 860 IV, IX | to ourselves of our own being; and, in this matter, come 861 IV, X | wherein we may read his being; yet having furnished us 862 IV, X | necessary to the end of our being, and the great concernment 863 IV, X | capable of knowing, i.e. being certain that there is a 864 IV, X | a clear idea of his own being; he knows certainly he exists, 865 IV, X | his beloved happiness of being nothing, until hunger or 866 IV, X | nothing cannot produce a being; therefore something must 867 IV, X | no more produce any real being, than it can be equal to 868 IV, X | nonentity, or the absence of all being, cannot be equal to two 869 IV, X | know there is some real being, and that nonentity cannot 870 IV, X | cannot produce any real being, it is an evident demonstration, 871 IV, X | else.~4. And that eternal Being must be most powerful. Next, 872 IV, X | evident, that what had its being and beginning from another, 873 IV, X | is in and belongs to its being from another too. All the 874 IV, X | eternal source, then, of all being must also be the source 875 IV, X | power; and so this eternal Being must be also the most powerful.~ 876 IV, X | that there is not only some being, but some knowing, intelligent 877 IV, X | some knowing, intelligent being in the world. There was 878 IV, X | when there was no knowing being, and when knowledge began 879 IV, X | has been also a knowing being from eternity. If it be 880 IV, X | there was a time when no being had any knowledge, when 881 IV, X | knowledge, when that eternal being was void of all understanding; 882 IV, X | have been any knowledge: it being as impossible that things 883 IV, X | should produce a knowing being, as it is impossible that 884 IV, X | powerful, and most knowing Being; which whether any one will 885 IV, X | ascribe to this eternal Being. If, nevertheless, any one 886 IV, X | Our idea of a most perfect Being, not the sole proof of a 887 IV, X | the idea of a most perfect being, which a man may frame in 888 IV, X | hearken to those proofs, as being weak or fallacious, which 889 IV, X | the creation of the world, being understood by the things 890 IV, X | Godhead.” Though our own being furnishes us, as I have 891 IV, X | so many parts: yet this being so fundamental a truth, 892 IV, X | perfectly nothing. This being of all absurdities the greatest, 893 IV, X | produce any real existence.~It being, then, unavoidable for all 894 IV, X | immaterial.~10. Incogitative being cannot produce a cogitative 895 IV, X | cannot produce a cogitative being. If, then, there must be 896 IV, X | let us see what sort of being it must be. And to that 897 IV, X | necessarily be a cogitative being. For it is as impossible 898 IV, X | produce a thinking intelligent being, as that nothing should 899 IV, X | if there were no other being in the world, must it not 900 IV, X | can add motion to itself, being purely matter, or produce 901 IV, X | to matter by some other being more powerful than matter; 902 IV, X | thought or an intelligent being existing? Divide matter 903 IV, X | existing as one material being, or one single body that 904 IV, X | eternal first cogitative being, there would not be one 905 IV, X | eternal, infinite, cogitative being, but an infinite number 906 IV, X | whatsoever is the first eternal being must necessarily be cogitative; 907 IV, X | that the first eternal being cannot be matter.~11. Therefore, 908 IV, X | been an eternal cogitative Being. If, therefore, it be evident, 909 IV, X | necessarily be a cogitative being: for it is as impossible 910 IV, X | should produce a cogitative being, as that nothing, or the 911 IV, X | or the negation of all being, should produce a positive 912 IV, X | should produce a positive being or matter.~12. The attributes 913 IV, X | of the eternal cogitative Being. Though this discovery of 914 IV, X | there must be an eternal Being, and that Being must also 915 IV, X | eternal Being, and that Being must also be knowing: yet 916 IV, X | follow but that thinking Being may also be material. Let 917 IV, X | omniscient, omnipotent Being, it is certain that there 918 IV, X | whether you imagine that Being to be material or no. But 919 IV, X | that supposition:—there being no way to avoid the demonstration, 920 IV, X | there is an eternal knowing Being, men, devoted to matter, 921 IV, X | granted, that this knowing Being is material; and then, letting 922 IV, X | whereby an eternal knowing Being was proved necessarily to 923 IV, X | is, an eternal cogitative Being: whereby they are so far 924 IV, X | without any eternal cogitative Being, they manifestly separate 925 IV, X | that an eternal cogitative Being is unavoidably to be granted. 926 IV, X | existence of a cogitative Being, and they suppose it to 927 IV, X | that this eternal thinking Being is material.~I. I would 928 IV, X | own reasons a cogitative being out of incogitative particles, 929 IV, X | particles, as an extended being out of unextended parts, 930 IV, X | be this eternal thinking being; nor all matter, as matter, 931 IV, X | is this thinking eternal Being. This is that which, I imagine, 932 IV, X | would have him a material being, as most readily suggested 933 IV, X | suppose the eternal thinking Being to be nothing else but a 934 IV, X | knowledge of that eternal Being only to the juxta-position 935 IV, X | by motion cause thought, being each of them in itself without 936 IV, X | so that such a thinking being will be no better nor wiser 937 IV, X | cogitative, immaterial Being. This, though it take not 938 IV, X | though it take not away the being of a God, yet, since it 939 IV, X | eternal, immaterial, thinking Being, but would have unthinking 940 IV, X | possible for a material being to be made out of nothing 941 IV, X | power of that eternal first Being: but to give beginning and 942 IV, X | but to give beginning and being to a spirit would be found 943 IV, X | omnipotent power. But this being what would perhaps lead 944 IV, X | SUBSTANCE out of nothing being once admitted, the creation 945 IV, X | the power of an infinite being, because we cannot comprehend 946 IV, X | determination of motion, being in this case no easier nor 947 IV, XI | The knowledge of our own being we have by intuition. The 948 IV, XI | by sensation: for there being no necessary connexion of 949 IV, XI | the existence of any other being, but only when, by actual 950 IV, XI | picture of a man evidences his being in the world, or the visions 951 IV, XI | really exist, and hath a being without me. And of this, 952 IV, XI | and do, during our whole being, is but the series and deluding 953 IV, XI | needs. For, our faculties being suited not to the full extent 954 IV, XI | not to the full extent of being, nor to a perfect, clear, 955 IV, XI | great as we can desire, being as certain to us as our 956 IV, XI | concernment, either of knowing or being. Such an assurance of the 957 IV, XI | important concernment we have of being made acquainted with them.~ 958 IV, XI | saw last to-day is now in being, I can less be certain that 959 IV, XI | bubble of that water: but, being now quite out of sight both 960 IV, XI | colours therein do so: it being no more necessary that water 961 IV, XI | creatures: but our senses not being able to discover them, we 962 IV, XI | indeed are so; not from being written, all or any of them, 963 IV, XI | existed before: but because, being once made about abstract 964 IV, XI | actually be true. For names being supposed to stand perpetually 965 IV, XII | mathematics, wherein men, being observed to attain a great 966 IV, XII | notice was taken thereof: it being natural for the mind (forward 967 IV, XII | but when it is useless, by being brought to convince one 968 IV, XII | one to determine, it not being material to my present occasion. 969 IV, XII | by them; and instead of being guided into truth, we shall, 970 IV, XII | ethics are conversant about, being all real essences, and such 971 IV, XII | philosophy is not capable of being made a science. We are able, 972 IV, XII | plainly discover to us the being of a God and the knowledge 973 IV, XII | as many simple ideas as, being constantly observed to co-exist, 974 IV, XII | distinct in our minds. For it being evident that our knowledge 975 IV, XIII | faculties voluntary; but, they being employed, we know as things 976 IV, XIII | survey of them: but, they being employed, our will hath 977 IV, XIII | intelligent, but frail and weak being, made by and depending on 978 IV, XIII | way. But yet these truths, being ever so certain, ever so 979 IV, XIV | Judgment ~1. Our knowledge being short, we want something 980 IV, XIV | understanding faculties being given to man, not barely 981 IV, XIV | true knowledge. For that being very short and scanty, as 982 IV, XIV | of greater perfection. It being highly rational to think, 983 IV, XIV | assent or dissent: which being the most usual way, wherein 984 IV, XV | of the thing; the proof being such as for the most part 985 IV, XV | testimony he receives it, not being wont to affirm anything 986 IV, XV | knowledge, as has been shown, being very narrow, and we not 987 IV, XV | perfect and certain. But there being degrees herein, from the 988 IV, XV | and assent or faith.~3. Being that which makes us presume 989 IV, XV | experience. Probability then, being to supply the defect of 990 IV, XVI | prevailed with them: it being in many cases almost impossible, 991 IV, XVI | greatest stiffness; those being generally the most fierce 992 IV, XVI | concerning things, which, being beyond the discovery of 993 IV, XVI | about particular facts, being agreeable to our constant 994 IV, XVI | with these matters; and being generally spoke of (when 995 IV, XVI | for nor against it, yet being related by historians of 996 IV, XVI | of it as he does of the being and actions of his own acquaintance, 997 IV, XVI | force and proof it has. The being and existence of the thing 998 IV, XVI | valid in future ages by being often repeated. But the 999 IV, XVI | as well doubt of our own being, as we can whether any revelation 1000 IV, XVI | than the evidence of its being a revelation, and that this