Book,  Chapter

  1      I,  II    |        thought there were none but positive laws. There is a great deal
  2      I,  II    |           i.e. without the help of positive revelation.~14. Those who
  3      I,  III   |        perfectly relative; but the positive ideas to which they properly
  4      I,  III   |            no [particular distinct positive] idea, which we take to
  5     II,  IV    |          carries something more of positive in it than impenetrability;
  6     II,  VIII  |      Simple Ideas of Sensation ~1. Positive ideas from privative causes.
  7     II,  VIII  |      considered there to be a real positive idea in the understanding,
  8     II,  VIII  |        rest, are equally clear and positive ideas in the mind; though,
  9     II,  VIII  |          considers all as distinct positive ideas, without taking notice
 10     II,  VIII  |          of them is, in its cause, positive or privative; and the idea
 11     II,  VIII  |           idea of black is no less positive in his mind than that of
 12     II,  VIII  |           in nature may occasion a positive idea. If it were the design
 13     II,  VIII  |          cases at least, produce a positive idea; viz. that all sensation
 14     II,  VIII  |          on it, cause as clear and positive idea in his mind as a man
 15     II,  VIII  |           picture of a shadow is a positive thing. Indeed, we have negative
 16     II,  VIII  |       which stand not directly for positive ideas, but for their absence,
 17     II,  VIII  |             c.; which words denote positive ideas, v.g. taste, sound,
 18     II,  VIII  |            I have here assigned of positive ideas are according to the
 19     II,  XI    |            this, I think, I may be positive in,—that the power of abstracting
 20     II,  XIII  |          between any two bodies or positive beings, without any consideration
 21     II,  XVII  |        infinite number. Whatsoever positive ideas we have in our minds
 22     II,  XVII  |            we can have no more the positive idea of a space infinitely
 23     II,  XVII  |            other, we can have the [positive] idea of a body infinitely
 24     II,  XVII  |           can stop nowhere.~13. No positive idea of infinity. Though
 25     II,  XVII  |        absurd as to say he has the positive idea of an actual infinite
 26     II,  XVII  |        those who imagine they have positive ideas of infinite duration
 27     II,  XVII  |         enough to destroy any such positive idea of infinite, to ask
 28     II,  XVII  |         show the mistake of such a positive idea. We can, I think, have
 29     II,  XVII  |           We can, I think, have no positive idea of any space or duration
 30     II,  XVII  |        addition; but not an actual positive idea of a number infinite.
 31     II,  XVII  |        lengths whereof we have the positive ideas) can never otherwise
 32     II,  XVII  |           14. How we cannot have a positive idea of infinity in quantity.
 33     II,  XVII  |       their idea of infinite to be positive, seem to me to do it by
 34     II,  XVII  |    negative, the negation of it is positive. He that considers that
 35     II,  XVII  |         negative idea.~15. What is positive, what negative, in our idea
 36     II,  XVII  |            I confess, something of positive in all those things we apply
 37     II,  XVII  |        together in our thoughts is positive, and the assemblage of a
 38     II,  XVII  |    assemblage of a great number of positive ideas of space or duration.
 39     II,  XVII  |      beyond this we have no more a positive distinct notion of than
 40     II,  XVII  |      reaching after a complete and positive idea of infinity. In which
 41     II,  XVII  | comprehends of any space, it has a positive idea of: but in endeavouring
 42     II,  XVII  |            is a clear picture, and positive in the understanding: but
 43     II,  XVII  |        Then the idea of so much is positive and clear. 2. The idea of
 44     II,  XVII  |           is plainly negative: not positive. For he has no positive
 45     II,  XVII  |            positive. For he has no positive clear idea of the largeness
 46     II,  XVII  |             For to say a man has a positive clear idea of any quantity,
 47     II,  XVII  |   reasonable as to say, he has the positive clear idea of the number
 48     II,  XVII  |            just such a perfect and positive idea has he of an infinite
 49     II,  XVII  |       whereof he has or can have a positive idea; which is all the idea,
 50     II,  XVII  |          that what lies beyond our positive idea towards infinity, lies
 51     II,  XVII  |      cannot but be very far from a positive complete idea, wherein the
 52     II,  XVII  |            such an idea as that be positive, I leave any one to consider.~
 53     II,  XVII  |           consider.~16. We have no positive idea of an infinite duration.
 54     II,  XVII  |          those who say they have a positive idea of eternity, whether
 55     II,  XVII  |        help us to a more clear and positive idea of infinite duration;
 56     II,  XVII  |            one has, or can have, a positive idea of an actual infinite
 57     II,  XVII  |            a little too scanty for positive infinity.~17. No complete
 58     II,  XVII  |        being but the negation of a positive thing, scarce gives me a
 59     II,  XVII  |           thing, scarce gives me a positive idea of infinity; which,
 60     II,  XVII  |        comprehension of it.~18. No positive idea of infinite space.
 61     II,  XVII  |            He that thinks he has a positive idea of infinite space,
 62     II,  XVII  |         that he can no more have a positive idea of the greatest, than
 63     II,  XVII  |            one whereof we have the positive idea. All our positive ideas
 64     II,  XVII  |         the positive idea. All our positive ideas of any quantity, whether
 65     II,  XVII  |         being comprehended in that positive idea which we have, lies
 66     II,  XVII  |  comprehend it; which is to have a positive idea of it. He that thinks
 67     II,  XVII  |          diameter, has a clear and positive idea of it in his mind,
 68     II,  XVII  |            all to have a clear and positive idea of that smallness which
 69     II,  XVII  |          divisibility.~19. What is positive, what negative, in our idea
 70     II,  XVII  |          no nearer to the having a positive clear idea of what remains
 71     II,  XVII  |          what remains to make up a positive infinite, than the country
 72     II,  XVII  |             Some think they have a positive idea of eternity, and not
 73     II,  XVII  |        themselves that they have a positive idea of eternity, but that
 74     II,  XVII  |          of them, I think, has any positive idea of infinity in either
 75     II,  XVII  |        either case. For whatsoever positive ideas a man has in his mind
 76     II,  XVII  |            or two paces, which are positive ideas of lengths he has
 77     II,  XVII  |            whereby, if a man had a positive idea of infinite, either
 78     II,  XVII  |          be confuted.~21. Supposed positive ideas of infinity, cause
 79     II,  XVII  |    themselves that they have clear positive comprehensive ideas of infinity,
 80     II,  XVII  |           they had as complete and positive ideas of them as they have
 81     II,  XXI   |         there is another of absent positive good; and here also the
 82     II,  XXI   |       indolence to one in pain; or positive, as enjoyment of pleasure.
 83     II,  XXI   |           allure.~35. The greatest positive good determines not the
 84     II,  XXIII |          which likewise we have no positive idea, we have the idea of
 85     II,  XXIII |           are apt to take them for positive qualities; v.g. the greatest
 86     II,  XXV   |         the denominations given to positive things, intimating that
 87     II,  XXV   |          considers Caius as such a positive being, it takes nothing
 88     II,  XXV   |            applied, and then it is positive, and is looked on as united
 89     II,  XXV   |             Such are the seemingly positive terms of old, great, imperfect, &
 90     II,  XXV   |         considered as one thing is positive: and so not only simple
 91     II,  XXV   |    substances, but modes also, are positive beings: though the parts
 92     II,  XXV   |            under one name, it is a positive or absolute thing, or idea.
 93     II,  XXV   |         the idea of the whole is a positive absolute idea. The same
 94     II,  XXVI  |        Some ideas of time supposed positive and found to be relative.
 95     II,  XXVI  |           are thought to stand for positive ideas, which yet will, when
 96     II,  XXVI  |          by names that are thought positive; as great and little are
 97     II,  XXVIII|        this sense they are as much positive absolute ideas, as the drinking
 98     II,  XXVIII|            man, as it is a certain positive mode, or particular sort
 99     II,  XXVIII|             In this case, when the positive mode has one name, and another
100     II,  XXVIII|        because very frequently the positive idea of the action, and
101     II,  XXVIII|       distinction made between the positive idea of the action, and
102     II,  XXIX  |         are apt to think we have a positive comprehensive idea of it,
103     II,  XXIX  |            we have no more a clear positive idea of it, when we say
104     II,  XXIX  |          four years, has as much a positive complete idea of eternity,
105     II,  XXIX  |      neither of them has any clear positive idea of it at all. For he
106    III,  I     |        them signify the absence of positive ideas. Besides these names
107    III,  I     |         sounds; but they relate to positive ideas, and signify their
108    III,  IX    |      former, and less magisterial, positive, and imperious, in imposing
109     IV,  I     |           could be no room for any positive knowledge at all, if we
110     IV,  III   |          in most other cases to be positive against the being of anything,
111     IV,  III   |           if a blind man should be positive in it, that there was no
112     IV,  III   |          things themselves, when a positive, clear, distinct one of
113     IV,  X     |            being, should produce a positive being or matter.~12. The
114     IV,  XIX   |        straight: and men may be as positive and peremptory in error