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| Alphabetical [« »] abhorrence 4 abilities 7 ability 16 able 152 abode 1 abortion 1 abound 3 | Frequency [« »] 155 sensible 154 suppose 153 sensation 152 able 152 soul 150 exist 148 whereof | John Locke An essay concerning human understanding IntraText - Concordances able |
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1 Ded | beginning of a book, will be able to cover the faults that 2 Read | good, yet every one not be able to receive it with that 3 Read | are true or false, will be able to see that what is said 4 I, I | memory; as soon as it is able to retain and perceive distinct 5 I, I | seven, till he comes to be able to count seven, and has 6 I, II | else nothing will ever be able to prevail with him to do 7 I, II | survey their actions, will be able to satisfy himself, that 8 I, II | minds, they would easily be able to distinguish them from 9 I, III | carefully employed, were able to make clear and evident 10 II, I | man not remember nor be able to recollect one jot of 11 II, I | for its own use, and be able to recall them upon occasion; 12 II, IV | all sides, will never be able to overcome the resistance 13 II, VII | mind within, which is not able to produce in us pleasure 14 II, VII | that natural bodies are able to produce in one another, 15 II, VIII | constituted in nature as to be able, by affecting our senses, 16 II, VIII | manna of a sensible bulk is able to produce in us the idea 17 II, VIII | and understood, we may be able to give an account how the 18 II, VIII | qualities; whereby it is able, in the one case, so to 19 II, VIII | and in the other, it is able so to alter the bulk, figure, 20 II, VIII | itself. For, our senses being able to observe a likeness or 21 II, VIII | But our senses, not being able to discover any unlikeness 22 II, IX | first sight, would not be able with certainty to say which 23 II, X | endowed with capacities able to retain together, and 24 II, XI | them unconfused, and being able nicely to distinguish one 25 II, XI | abstract, would hardly be able to understand and make use 26 II, XIII | in things existing, or is able to make within itself without 27 II, XIII | will, without being ever able to come to any stop or stint, 28 II, XIII | angle it pleases: and being able also to shorten any line 29 II, XIII | it pleases, without being able to come to an end of any 30 II, XIII | that by it they might be able to design the particular 31 II, XIII | the universe, he will be able to tell us whether it moves 32 II, XIII | resolved that, they will be able to resolve themselves,—what 33 II, XIV | and reflection, will be able to furnish us with these 34 II, XIV | c.~Fourthly, by being able to repeat those measures 35 II, XIV | hence.~Fifthly, by being able to repeat ideas of any length 36 II, XV | But, since the mind is not able to frame an idea of any 37 II, XVI | one to another, are not able all their lifetime to reckon, 38 II, XVII | the mind should be ever able to find or suppose any end 39 II, XVII | immensity; so, by being able to repeat the idea of any 40 II, XVII | endless increase the mind is able to make in quantity, by 41 II, XXI | considered is two-fold, viz. as able to make, or able to receive 42 II, XXI | viz. as able to make, or able to receive any change. The 43 II, XXI | collect a power somewhere able to make that change, as 44 II, XXI | agent that has power, or is able to do. For powers are relations, 45 II, XXI | can operate that is not able to operate; and that is 46 II, XXI | operate; and that is not able to operate that has no power 47 II, XXI | performed by something that is able to digest, motion by something 48 II, XXI | digest, motion by something able to move, and understanding 49 II, XXI | understanding by something able to understand. And, in truth, 50 II, XXI | to be free without being able to be free.~21. But to the 51 II, XXI | being freer, than to be able to do what he wills. So 52 II, XXI | freedom, viz. in our being able to act or not to act, according 53 II, XXI | mind as a present good, able to counterbalance the removal 54 II, XXI | thing requires. This we are able to do; and when we have 55 II, XXI | that in most cases, we are able to suspend the present satisfaction 56 II, XXI | of us no more than we are able to do, and sees what was 57 II, XXI | through disuse, not being able, by the contemplation of 58 II, XXI | unacquainted with,—seldom is able to counterbalance any uneasiness, 59 II, XXI | miserable, without being able to move himself one step 60 II, XXI | subservient) may add a new gusto, able to make us swallow an ill-relished 61 II, XXI | which remaining equally able to operate or to forbear 62 II, XXI | or capacity. But to be able to bring into view ideas 63 II, XXII | offers them, without being able to make any one idea, experience 64 II, XXII | been said, he cannot but be able to make out to himself. 65 II, XXIII | have to do here. We are able, by our senses, to know 66 II, XXIII | little our constitution is able to bear a remove into parts 67 II, XXIII | quietest retirement be less able to sleep or meditate than 68 II, XXIII | in some substance, we are able to frame the complex idea 69 II, XXIII | So that we are no more able to discover wherein the 70 II, XXIII | efforts it would make, is not able to advance one jot; nor 71 II, XXV | one another, and not to be able to exist, but together. 72 II, XXVI | from what our senses are able to discover in the operations 73 II, XXVII | cannot be imagined that so able a man as he, who had sufficiency 74 II, XXVII | man. And thus may we be able, without any difficulty, 75 II, XXVIII| law-maker, the mind is easily able to observe the relation 76 II, XXIX | weakness in the memory, not able to retain them as received. 77 II, XXIX | one name: much less are we able constantly to divine for 78 II, XXIX | distinct; so that he being able to discourse and demonstrate 79 II, XXIX | He will, I doubt not, be able to distinguish these two 80 II, XXIX | presently at a loss, and not be able, I think, to frame in his 81 II, XXIX | infinite number, by being able still to add new numbers 82 II, XXXII | things, whereby we may be able to discern one thing from 83 II, XXXII | in his mind; he would be able as regularly to distinguish 84 II, XXXIII| possibly he shall never be able to separate them again so 85 II, XXXIII| has not power over, nor is able against them to prevail 86 II, XXXIII| been thus subjected, is not able to separate them.~16. A 87 III, I | necessary that he should be able to use these sounds as signs 88 III, II | variety he found himself able to make. Thus we may conceive 89 III, III | some generals have been able to call every soldier in 90 III, III | sometimes the shame of not being able to do it. But though defining 91 III, III | loss: and he will never be able to know when anything precisely 92 III, IV | of that pain which it is able to cause in us. For the 93 III, IV | their names, will never be able to produce in us the idea 94 III, IV | redness is more fitted or able to produce either of those 95 III, IV | experience, no words are able to excite them in his mind.~ 96 III, VI | simple ideas (nor being able to frame more) applicable 97 III, VI | names, so that we may be able to discourse of them when 98 III, X | will not by such words be able to convey much of it to 99 III, XI | use, till somebody better able shall judge it worth his 100 III, XI | be decompounded, must be able to resolve it still on, 101 III, XI | such a degree, as to be able to understand general signs, 102 IV, I | finite understandings being able to think clearly and distinctly 103 IV, I | truth, that being all he was able to think on at one time.~ 104 IV, I | Such a memory as that, able to retain such a train of 105 IV, II | a sceptic, without being able to be so. Certainty depends 106 IV, III | those ideas we have; nor be able to surmount all the difficulties, 107 IV, III | perhaps, shall never be able to find a circle equal to 108 IV, III | possibly shall never be able to know whether any mere 109 IV, III | as we can conceive, being able only to strike and affect 110 IV, III | reach of our ideas, being able to produce nothing but motion; 111 IV, III | can no way conceive motion able to produce, what reason 112 IV, III | will scarce find his reason able to determine him fixedly 113 IV, III | reason to hope we might be able to know a great deal more 114 IV, III | but our minds not being able to discover any connexion 115 IV, III | by them, we can never be able to establish certain and 116 IV, III | very few cases we can be able to perceive their dependence 117 IV, III | understanding is scarce able to substitute another, which 118 IV, III | we have, we shall ever be able to carry our general knowledge ( 119 IV, III | which our faculties are not able to give us shuts us wholly 120 IV, III | the wheels; we should be able to tell beforehand that 121 IV, III | some few trials we make are able to reach. But whether they 122 IV, III | knowledge; nor shall ever be able to discover general, instructive, 123 IV, III | themselves would never be able in the least to discover 124 IV, III | we are so far from being able to comprehend the whole 125 IV, VI | instead of them will be able to furnish us but very sparingly 126 IV, VI | abstract ideas that alone is able to afford us general knowledge. ~ 127 IV, VII | these maxims had never been able to help us to it. When we 128 IV, VII | these two propositions are able to teach, and by their influence 129 IV, VII | shape wholly: this man is able to demonstrate that a man 130 IV, VIII | schoolmaster, and yet never be able to read a word as long as 131 IV, VIII | wholly in sounds, and are able to attain no real truth 132 IV, X | shall find it, in itself, able to produce nothing. For 133 IV, X | contemplation of things, we might be able to aim at some dim and seeming 134 IV, XI | but our senses not being able to discover them, we want 135 IV, XII | them alone, will never be able to know it by the help of 136 IV, XII | to know, that we may be able to distinguish them from 137 IV, XII | regular experiments, shall be able to see further into the 138 IV, XII | being made a science. We are able, I imagine, to reach very 139 IV, XII | our faculties, as I guess, able to advance.~11. We are fitted 140 IV, XV | a witness will scarce be able to find belief.~The king 141 IV, XVI | which perhaps they are not able actually to recall. Without 142 IV, XVI | of memory, they are not able presently to answer.~3. 143 IV, XVII | connexion they have, and so is able to judge of the inference 144 IV, XVII | knows first, and then he is able to prove syllogistically. 145 IV, XVII | and in these the mind is able to perceive that they agree 146 IV, XVII | And even those who are able to master such intricate 147 IV, XVII | be ignorant, and not be able to produce a better: I may 148 IV, XVII | said of reason, we may be able to make some guess at the 149 IV, XVIII | our natural faculties are able to give a probable determination; 150 IV, XVIII | particular matter, being able to reach no higher than 151 IV, XIX | cannot be denied to be able to enlighten the understanding 152 IV, XX | be used will be as little able to prevail, as the wind