Book,  Chapter

  1    Ded        |         discoveries you have made of truths hitherto unknown, unless
  2   Read        |      familiar to their thoughts some truths which established prejudice,
  3    Int        |         quiet and sure possession of truths that most concerned us,
  4      I,  I    |              be to attribute several truths to the impressions of nature,
  5      I,  I    |              that there were certain truths wherein all mankind agreed,
  6      I,  I    |            concomitant of all innate truths: it seeming to me near a
  7      I,  I    | contradiction to say, that there are truths imprinted on the soul, which
  8      I,  I    |          else but the making certain truths to be perceived. For to
  9      I,  I    |             know and assent to these truths; which since they do not,
 10      I,  I    |            and so the mind is of all truths it ever shall know. Nay,
 11      I,  I    |           ever shall know. Nay, thus truths may be imprinted on the
 12      I,  I    |            last in ignorance of many truths which his mind was capable
 13      I,  I    |    impression contended for, all the truths a man ever comes to know
 14      I,  I    |           capable of knowing several truths. The capacity, they say,
 15      I,  I    |            certain innate maxims? If truths can be imprinted on the
 16      I,  I    |             there can be between any truths the mind is capable of knowing
 17      I,  I    |         thereby any distinct sort of truths) mean such truths to be
 18      I,  I    |            sort of truths) mean such truths to be in the understanding
 19      I,  I    |             thus, viz. that whatever truths reason can certainly discover
 20      I,  I    |            by the use of reason, and truths that a rational creature
 21      I,  I    |          faculty of deducing unknown truths from principles or propositions
 22      I,  I    |            will have all the certain truths that reason ever teaches
 23      I,  I    |           make reason discover those truths thus imprinted, is to say,
 24      I,  I    |          have those innate impressed truths originally, and before the
 25      I,  I    |            demonstrations, and other truths that are not innate, are
 26      I,  I    |              maxims and other innate truths. I shall have occasion to
 27      I,  I    |           discovery of these general truths: since it must be confessed
 28      I,  I    |           assent of the mind to some truths, depends not, either on
 29      I,  I    |            general and more abstract truths, which are thought innate,
 30      I,  I    |           knowledge of those general truths; but deny that men’s coming
 31      I,  I    |    distinguished from other knowable truths. In the mean time it is
 32      I,  I    |            so may all other knowable truths, as well as these; which
 33      I,  I    |             the mind attains several truths. The senses at first let
 34      I,  I    |        innate. The knowledge of some truths, I confess, is very early
 35      I,  I    |            Assent to supposed innate truths depends on having clear
 36      I,  I    |             suppose innate and other truths that are afterwards acquired
 37      I,  I    |       acknowledge them for undoubted truths, they would infer, that
 38      I,  I    |              unacquainted with these truths till he hears them from
 39      I,  I    |           many of these self-evident truths upon their being proposed:
 40      I,  I    |             propositions are not the truths that first possess the minds
 41      I,  I    |             knows a great many other truths? He that will say, children
 42      I,  I    |            Since, if they are innate truths, they must be innate thoughts:
 43      I,  I    |               if there by any innate truths, they must necessarily be
 44      I,  II   |          distinguish them from other truths that they afterwards learned
 45      I,  II   |             there are no such innate truths. Nay, a great part of men
 46      I,  II   |              allow these to be clear truths, and such as, if rightly
 47      I,  II   |              in moral principles) to truths, the knowledge whereof may
 48      I,  II   |             self-evident, and innate truths.~23. Principles supposed
 49      I,  III  |            ideas which made up those truths were not, it was impossible
 50      I,  III  |              universal and undoubted truths, but will be the unavoidable
 51      I,  III  |      distinguishable from some other truths not allowed to be innate.
 52      I,  III  |     understanding; and some sorts of truths result from any ideas, as
 53      I,  III  |             into propositions: other truths require a train of ideas
 54      I,  III  |        discover, receive, and retain truths, according as they are employed.
 55      I,  III  |         search of those mathematical truths, he stopped his thoughts
 56      I,  III  |              from other adventitious truths, we may well conclude there
 57      I,  III  |           reason to understand those truths which gave them reputation.
 58      I,  III  |            teacher of unquestionable truths; and to make a man swallow
 59      I,  III  |          knowledge of many universal truths, they would have found them
 60     II,  I    |              and none of those clear truths, that either their own evidence
 61     II,  XI   |         which have passed for innate truths;—because men, overlooking
 62     II,  XI   |       wrongly, they mistake them for truths; and they err as men do
 63    III,  V    |       reasoned about, and as certain truths discovered of them, whilst
 64    III,  IX   |   propositions certain and undoubted truths, which the mind may rest
 65    III,  IX   |            those that contain either truths we are required to believe,
 66    III,  IX   |           and debates, where general truths are to be established, and
 67    III,  IX   |             in their minds universal truths, and consider the consequences
 68    III,  IX   |     controverted; and other revealed truths, which are conveyed to us
 69    III,  X    |           and perplexed the material truths of law and divinity; brought
 70    III,  XI   |            the discoveries of useful truths, and the knowledge of things,
 71     IV,  I    |            be said to know all those truths which are lodged in his
 72     IV,  I    |            First, The one is of such truths laid up in the memory as,
 73     IV,  I    |             And this is in all those truths whereof we have an intuitive
 74     IV,  I    |       Secondly, The other is of such truths whereof the mind having
 75     IV,  II   |           one and two. Such kinds of truths the mind perceives at the
 76     IV,  II   |              at least in all general truths. There is, indeed, another
 77     IV,  III  |              as they do mathematical truths, they would find them have
 78     IV,  III  |       certain knowledge of universal truths concerning natural bodies:
 79     IV,  III  |          instructive, unquestionable truths concerning them. Certainty
 80     IV,  III  |             ignorant of mathematical truths, not out of any imperfection
 81     IV,  III  |             furnisheth us with that. Truths belonging to essences of
 82     IV,  IV   |            of a crazy brain; and the truths built thereon of no more
 83     IV,  IV   |             the certainty of general truths a man has lies in nothing
 84     IV,  IV   |              we have of mathematical truths is not only certain, but
 85     IV,  IV   |              knowledge he has of any truths or properties belonging
 86     IV,  V    |        wherein the certainty of real truths contained in propositions
 87     IV,  V    |           our contemplation. General truths are most looked after by
 88     IV,  V    |             there are other sorts of truths: As, 1. Moral truth, which
 89     IV,  VI   |     explaining the other.~2. General truths hardly to be understood,
 90     IV,  VI   |             of particular or general truths, it is evident that whatever
 91     IV,  VI   |          certainty pronounce general truths. But because the abstract
 92     IV,  VII  |            plain, that several other truths, not allowed to be axioms,
 93     IV,  VII  |           same is not different, are truths known in more particular
 94     IV,  VII  |               and are unquestionable truths, yet, I think, that any
 95     IV,  VII  |          that these axioms are those truths that are first known to
 96     IV,  VII  |         maxims or axioms are not the truths we first knew. First, That
 97     IV,  VII  |         First, That they are not the truths first known to the mind
 98     IV,  VII  |             not to be?” And how many truths are there about numbers,
 99     IV,  VII  |               that such self-evident truths must be first known which
100     IV,  VII  |          there be a great many other truths, which have as much self-evidence
101     IV,  VII  |            which we deduce all other truths. Is it impossible to know
102     IV,  VII  |           discoveries of yet unknown truths. Mr. Newton, in his never
103     IV,  VII  |  propositions, which are so many new truths, before unknown to the world,
104     IV,  VII  |              of, to convince them of truths in particular instances,
105     IV,  VII  |             who are to propagate the truths of religion or philosophy
106     IV,  VII  |              use to the discovery of truths. As to these general maxims,
107     IV,  VII  |             the discovery of unknown truths, or to help the mind forwards
108     IV,  VII  |           and I would fain know what truths these two propositions are
109     IV,  VII  |              me. I affirm them to be truths, self-evident truths; and
110     IV,  VII  |              be truths, self-evident truths; and so cannot be laid aside.
111     IV,  VIII |             own or another’s mind to truths he does not yet know, must
112     IV,  VIII |          very few and inconsiderable truths, in respect of those which
113     IV,  VIII |            that convey the most real truths: and all this without any
114     IV,  XI   |              to very plain and clear truths, because they cannot be
115     IV,  XI   |             therefore called eternal truths, not because they are eternal
116     IV,  XII  |            science as unquestionable truths; and so receive them without
117     IV,  XII  |              as well as of all other truths, depends only upon the perception
118     IV,  XII  |           after. General and certain truths are only founded in the
119     IV,  XII  |       discovery and demonstration of truths that appear at first sight
120     IV,  XII  |           certain, real, and general truths; and I doubt not but, if
121     IV,  XII  |       certain, universal, and useful truths. For, upon trial, having
122     IV,  XII  |             the more of mathematical truths. They have been discovered
123     IV,  XII  |            got the knowledge of such truths in mathematics, which men,
124     IV,  XIII |       undoubtedly convinced of those truths. For what a man sees, he
125     IV,  XIII |              that way. But yet these truths, being ever so certain,
126     IV,  XIV  |          called judgment; when about truths delivered in words, is most
127     IV,  XVI  |           our inquiry after material truths, that I never yet heard
128     IV,  XVI  |               So that in traditional truths, each remove weakens the
129     IV,  XVI  |   probability, to pass for authentic truths; and those which found or
130     IV,  XVI  |             great part of the useful truths we have, with a convincing
131     IV,  XVI  |           they more or less agree to truths that are established in
132     IV,  XVI  |          often into the discovery of truths and useful productions,
133     IV,  XVI  |            but give it also to other truths, which need such confirmation.~
134     IV,  XVII |       discovering and finding out of truths; the second, the regular
135     IV,  XVII |     discovery of and assent to these truths, there is no use of the
136     IV,  XVIII|              of such propositions or truths which the mind arrives at
137     IV,  XVIII|              This way of discovering truths to men, we call revelation.~
138     IV,  XVIII|        Secondly, I say that the same truths may be discovered, and conveyed
139     IV,  XVIII|        obedience, and to receive the truths revealed to others, which,
140     IV,  XIX  |        revelation. For thus, all the truths, of what kind soever, that
141     IV,  XIX  |          ordinary grounds that other truths are received: and if they
142     IV,  XIX  |          propositions will be divine truths, if an ungrounded strength
143     IV,  XIX  |           which they take for divine truths, shining in their minds
144     IV,  XIX  |              apprehending of certain truths or excite them to good actions,
145     IV,  XX   |        Indeed, there are millions of truths that a man is not, or may
146     IV,  XX   |           them, and mistake them for truths, than is imagined.  ~