Book,  Chapter

  1    Int        |          inquire into the original, certainty, and extent of human knowledge,
  2    Int        |            down any measures of the certainty of our knowledge; or the
  3    Int        |             by those ideas; and the certainty, evidence, and extent of
  4    Int        |             has faculties to attain certainty; and in what cases it can
  5    Int        |           demonstration, and demand certainty, where probability only
  6      I,  I    |      impressions; and may arrive at certainty, without any such original
  7      I,  I    |           of knowing, and that with certainty. So that if the capacity
  8      I,  I    |             a rational creature may certainty come to know, if he apply
  9      I,  II   |           the mind, to discover the certainty of their truth. They lie
 10      I,  II   |       derogation to their truth and certainty; no more than it is to the
 11      I,  II   |          than it is to the truth or certainty of the three angles of a
 12      I,  II   |          full a persuasion of their certainty and obligation. The great
 13      I,  II   |         ignorant of what is innate, certainty is not described by innate
 14      I,  II   |            to no purpose; truth and certainty (the things pretended) are
 15      I,  III  |             of little use or little certainty. Besides what I have already
 16      I,  III  |        foundations of knowledge and certainty, I cannot tell;—I persuade
 17     II,  IX   |              would not be able with certainty to say which was the globe,
 18     II,  XI   |            depends the evidence and certainty of several, even very general,
 19     II,  XIV  |             and thereby destroy the certainty and exactness of the measure
 20     II,  XXI  |       moment, yet it is not of that certainty, but that it may otherwise
 21     II,  XXI  |             mention anything of the certainty or probability of a future
 22     II,  XXIX |             argue or reason with no certainty or clearness, no more than
 23    III,  VI   |             discover the extent and certainty of our knowledge than we
 24    III,  VI   |             so is of no real use or certainty. For let it be ever so true,
 25    III,  IX   |           to examine the extent and certainty of our knowledge, I found
 26    III,  X    |       convey so little knowledge or certainty in our discourses about
 27    III,  XI   |           to so great clearness and certainty. And it must be great want
 28    III,  XI   |           of them can be known with certainty. For the ideas they stand
 29     IV,  I    |          comes not short of perfect certainty, and is in effect true knowledge.
 30     IV,  I    |            in the proposition whose certainty we remember. For example:
 31     IV,  II   |           utmost light and greatest certainty we, with our faculties,
 32     IV,  II   |      intuition that depends all the certainty and evidence of all our
 33     IV,  II   |            all our knowledge; Which certainty every one finds to be so
 34     IV,  II   |        himself capable of a greater certainty than to know that any idea
 35     IV,  II   |           He that demands a greater certainty than this, demands he knows
 36     IV,  II   |        without being able to be so. Certainty depends so wholly on this
 37     IV,  II   |         cannot attain knowledge and certainty.~2. II. Demonstrative. The
 38     IV,  II   |           can in this way arrive at certainty, and come to perceive the
 39     IV,  II   |            knowledge, has intuitive certainty; which when the mind perceives,
 40     IV,  II   |            capable of demonstrative certainty: but to have such an agreement
 41     IV,  II   |            the foregoing degrees of certainty, passes under the name of
 42     IV,  II   |       perceive, by our senses; this certainty is as great as our happiness
 43     IV,  II   |            and ways of evidence and certainty.~15. Knowledge not always
 44     IV,  III  |          first-thinking Being. What certainty of knowledge can any one
 45     IV,  III  |             arrive at demonstrative certainty, we need not think it strange.
 46     IV,  III  |      satisfy us that we can find no certainty on one side of the question:
 47     IV,  III  |             what it is, confirm the certainty of its being, though we
 48     IV,  III  |          probability amounts not to certainty, without which there can
 49     IV,  III  |      contemplation, would afford us certainty, if vices, passions, and
 50     IV,  III  |             thought more capable of certainty and demonstration, is,~First,
 51     IV,  III  |             truths concerning them. Certainty and demonstration are things
 52     IV,  III  |       intellectual world; a greater certainty, and more beautiful world
 53     IV,  III  |            we can have no universal certainty. Several effects come every
 54     IV,  III  |             the causes, manner, and certainty of their production, for
 55     IV,  IV   |   conformably, it is all truth, all certainty. Such castles in the air
 56     IV,  IV   |           evident, that this way of certainty, by the knowledge of our
 57     IV,  IV   |            will appear that all the certainty of general truths a man
 58     IV,  IV   |     knowledge is as capable of real certainty as mathematics. For certainty
 59     IV,  IV   |       certainty as mathematics. For certainty being but the perception
 60     IV,  IV   |          attaining of knowledge and certainty, it is requisite that we
 61     IV,  IV   |          wondered, that I place the certainty of our knowledge in the
 62     IV,  IV   |             inquire after truth and certainty, will, I presume, upon examination,
 63     IV,  IV   |          same manner, the truth and certainty of moral discourses abstracts
 64     IV,  IV   |         discovery of real truth and certainty, whatever sounds we make
 65     IV,  IV   |          Misnaming disturbs not the certainty of the knowledge. One thing
 66     IV,  IV   |           this too disturbs not the certainty of that knowledge, which
 67     IV,  IV   |        difficulties about truth and certainty. Would we accustom ourselves
 68     IV,  IV   |            shown wherein it is that certainty, real certainty, consists.
 69     IV,  IV   |             is that certainty, real certainty, consists. Which, whatever
 70     IV,  V    |            men are animals; and the certainty of one as great as the other.
 71     IV,  V    |           large inquire wherein the certainty of real truths contained
 72     IV,  VI   |       Propositions: their Truth and Certainty ~1. Treating of words necessary
 73     IV,  VI   |          inquire into the truth and certainty of universal propositions.~
 74     IV,  VI   |          universal propositions.~3. Certainty twofold—of truth and of
 75     IV,  VI   |           it is fit to observe that certainty is twofold: certainty of
 76     IV,  VI   |          that certainty is twofold: certainty of truth and certainty of
 77     IV,  VI   |              certainty of truth and certainty of knowledge. Certainty
 78     IV,  VI   |             certainty of knowledge. Certainty of truth is, when words
 79     IV,  VI   |         stand for, as really it is. Certainty of knowledge is to perceive
 80     IV,  VI   |            what may or may not with certainty be affirmed of it. And thus,
 81     IV,  VI   |           it is impossible with any certainty to affirm, that all men
 82     IV,  VI   |           words which should convey certainty with it.~5. This more particularly
 83     IV,  VI   |           are not capable to convey certainty to the understanding. Of
 84     IV,  VI   |           knowledge; and reach with certainty no further than that bare
 85     IV,  VI   |           carry with them undoubted certainty.~8. Instance in gold. “All
 86     IV,  VI   |         species; and so cannot with certainty affirm anything universally
 87     IV,  VI   |           no other quality can with certainty be universally affirmed
 88     IV,  VI   |          the ideas themselves, with certainty affirm or deny of a body
 89     IV,  VI   |            such a sort of truth and certainty as this it is, to say a
 90     IV,  VI   |           more capable of universal certainty, in respect of other qualities
 91     IV,  VI   |             carry general truth and certainty with them. But whilst our
 92     IV,  VI   |      propositions of undoubted real certainty. But yet so far as any complex
 93     IV,  VI   |     universal propositions may with certainty be made concerning it: v.g.
 94     IV,  VI   |        propositions capable of real certainty.~13. Judgment of probability
 95     IV,  VI   |             therefore to wonder, if certainty be to be found in very few
 96     IV,  VI   |           opinion, and has not that certainty which is requisite to knowledge.
 97     IV,  VI   |           in propositions, can with certainty pronounce general truths.
 98     IV,  VI   |           very few other ideas, the certainty of universal propositions
 99     IV,  VI   |             can generally, and with certainty, pronounce, that it has
100     IV,  VI   |         universal propositions with certainty, concerning the several
101     IV,  VI   |            us very little universal certainty. Because our ideas of them
102     IV,  VI   |            therefore we cannot with certainty affirm: That all men sleep
103     IV,  VI   |             but can have no general certainty, whilst our specific idea
104     IV,  VI   |           we must not hope to reach certainty in universal propositions
105     IV,  VI   |            Wherein lies the general certainty of propositions. To conclude:
106     IV,  VI   |            are then only capable of certainty, when the terms used in
107     IV,  VI   |           take notice, that general certainty is never to be found but
108     IV,  VII  |              and that with an equal certainty and easiness in the less
109     IV,  VII  |          nothing to the evidence or certainty of its knowledge. Just so
110     IV,  VII  |            when it is there, with a certainty that cannot be greater;
111     IV,  VII  |             be known with a greater certainty, nor add anything to this.
112     IV,  VII  |             ideas, the evidence and certainty of all such propositions
113     IV,  VII  |          discovery of the truth and certainty of those propositions. Nor
114     IV,  VII  |          with the same evidence and certainty be affirmed one of another,
115     IV,  VII  |             without the mind: their certainty is founded only upon the
116     IV,  VII  |          man; the foundation of his certainty being not that universal
117     IV,  VII  |     foundation of all knowledge and certainty; and he that needs any proof
118     IV,  VIII |            same word may with great certainty be affirmed of itself, without
119     IV,  VIII |         might, no doubt, with great certainty, universally affirm one,
120     IV,  VIII |            back—might with the same certainty universally affirm also
121     IV,  VIII |           propositions with perfect certainty. The one is, of those trifling
122     IV,  VIII |           propositions which have a certainty in them, but it is only
123     IV,  VIII |             but it is only a verbal certainty, but not instructive. And,
124     IV,  VIII |             us yet further from the certainty of knowledge we hope to
125     IV,  IX   |            of the highest degree of certainty.  ~
126     IV,  X    |          not) equal to mathematical certainty: yet it requires thought
127     IV,  X    |             how we may come by this certainty, I think we need go no further
128     IV,  X    |          man knows, by an intuitive certainty, that bare nothing can no
129     IV,  XI   |           For it takes not from the certainty of our senses, and the ideas
130     IV,  XI   |            move my hand; which is a certainty as great as human nature
131     IV,  XI   |              and seems to give it a certainty approaching to that of demonstration
132     IV,  XI   |         them in that order.~8. This certainty is as great as our condition
133     IV,  XI   |           him this answer, That the certainty of things existing in rerum
134     IV,  XI   |             no man requires greater certainty to govern his actions by
135     IV,  XI   |           perhaps be wakened into a certainty greater than he could wish,
136     IV,  XI   |       writing this, I have not that certainty of it which we strictly
137     IV,  XI   |            expect demonstration and certainty in things not capable of
138     IV,  XI   |            upon search of universal certainty in all those matters; wherein
139     IV,  XI   |       whenever they do exist: which certainty of such general propositions
140     IV,  XII  |          observed to attain a great certainty of knowledge, these sciences
141     IV,  XII  |             all others the greatest certainty, clearness, and evidence
142     IV,  XII  |           the great advancement and certainty of real knowledge which
143     IV,  XII  |           say, unless she fetch the certainty of it from this maxim, that
144     IV,  XII  |            be considered, what more certainty there is to a child, or
145     IV,  XII  |          since the knowledge of the certainty of principles, as well as
146     IV,  XII  |           can be put with truth and certainty concerning them into general
147     IV,  XII  |             the search of truth and certainty. What, then, are we to do
148     IV,  XII  |          opinion, not knowledge and certainty. This way of getting and
149     IV,  XII  |            philosophy be capable of certainty or no, the ways to enlarge
150     IV,  XIV  |         direct him but what has the certainty of true knowledge. For that
151     IV,  XV   |            them border so near upon certainty, that we make no doubt at
152     IV,  XV   |           the very neighbourhood of certainty and demonstration, quite
153     IV,  XV   |       bounds of human knowledge and certainty,) in the next place, to
154     IV,  XV   |             between probability and certainty, faith, and knowledge, that
155     IV,  XV   |     propositions whereof we have no certainty, but only some inducements
156     IV,  XV   |            of our knowledge, as the certainty of observations, as the
157     IV,  XVI  |            and of an unquestionable certainty; or which he takes to be
158     IV,  XVI  |       probabilities rise so near to certainty, that they govern our thoughts
159     IV,  XVI  |           revelation is the highest certainty. Besides those we have hitherto
160     IV,  XVII |           applies them, to discover certainty in the one, and probability
161     IV,  XVII |            the highest of all human certainty. In this consists the evidence
162     IV,  XVII |           before they can arrive at certainty. But yet where the mind
163     IV,  XVII |         above probability, or above certainty: and in that large sense
164     IV,  XVIII|          want certain knowledge and certainty, as far as we want clear
165     IV,  XVIII|             be the discovery of the certainty or probability of such propositions
166     IV,  XVIII|       reason, but not with the same certainty that reason doth. Secondly,
167     IV,  XVIII|          never amount to so great a certainty as the knowledge of it,
168     IV,  XVIII|           propositions, then, whose certainty is built upon the clear
169     IV,  XVIII|           can exceed, if equal, the certainty of our intuitive knowledge,
170     IV,  XVIII|           the whole strength of the certainty depends upon our knowledge
171     IV,  XVIII|         opposition to knowledge and certainty. There can be no evidence
172     IV,  XIX  | illumination without search, and of certainty without proof and without
173     IV,  XIX  |            that they serve them for certainty in themselves, and demonstration