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1 Read | pretend to instruct this our knowing age; it amounting to little 2 Read | live in is not the least knowing, and therefore not the most 3 Read | more vulgar style call “knowing,” that I have reason to 4 Int | work at all, in despair of knowing anything; nor on the other 5 I, I | because it is capable of knowing it; and so the mind is of 6 I, I | his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty. 7 I, I | that if the capacity of knowing be the natural impression 8 I, I | the mind was capable of knowing several truths. The capacity, 9 I, I | truths the mind is capable of knowing in respect of their original: 10 I, I | know these maxims. If by knowing and assenting to them “when 11 I, I | wits, at first hearing, and knowing what the names stand for, 12 I, II | approbation, without either knowing or admitting the true ground 13 I, II | know to be true, without knowing what it is that God doth 14 I, II | mischief upon us; without knowing what those particular actions 15 I, II | cannot be understood but by knowing the particulars comprehended 16 I, III | he had been perhaps as knowing a divine, and as good a 17 I, III | us not one jot the more knowing, though they happen to be 18 I, III | Aristotle was certainly a knowing man, but nobody ever thought 19 II, I | doubting, believing, reasoning, knowing, willing, and all the different 20 II, I | sleeping man thinks without knowing it, the sleeping and waking 21 II, I | hours busy without their knowing of it; and if they are taken 22 II, I | it is the affectation of knowing beyond what we perceive, 23 II, XIII | that substance, without knowing what it is, is that which 24 II, XIII | that substance, without knowing what it is, is that which 25 II, XIII | think the words of the most knowing King Solomon, “The heaven, 26 II, XIII | clear, simple ideas. The knowing precisely what our words 27 II, XIV | possible. For which (not knowing how the ideas of our minds 28 II, XVII | of any quantity, without knowing how great it is, is as reasonable 29 II, XX | names defined; the way of knowing them is, as of the simple 30 II, XXI | deserve Midas’s ears, who, knowing that rich was a denomination 31 II, XXI | constitution and frame, and knowing what it is that determines 32 II, XXIII | substance wherein thinking, knowing, doubting, and a power of 33 II, XXIII | supposed to be (without knowing what it is) the substratum 34 II, XXIII | understanding, willing, knowing, and power of beginning 35 II, XXIII | notion of an immaterial knowing substance.~32. We know nothing 36 II, XXIII | I can frame an idea of knowing twice as many; which I can 37 II, XXIII | The same also I can do of knowing them more perfectly; i.e. 38 II, XXIII | certainly we do not know, not knowing the real essence of a pebble, 39 II, XXV | of a relation; but to the knowing of any substantial being, 40 II, XXV | ones, it suffices for the knowing the precise idea the relative 41 II, XXVI | operation of some other, without knowing the manner of that operation.~ 42 II, XXVIII| the same person, without knowing the particular circumstances 43 II, XXXI | to proper speaking than knowing right.~6. Ideas of substances, 44 II, XXXI | how far men are yet from knowing all the properties of that 45 III, II | that in this respect the knowing and the ignorant, the learned 46 III, VI | being, without precisely knowing what they are; but that 47 III, VI | of those species, without knowing the complex idea of sensible 48 III, VI | in the morning, and, not knowing any peculiar name it had, 49 III, VI | forms, but are content with knowing things one from another 50 III, VI | make of children, without knowing whether they were not as 51 III, VI | far are we from certainly knowing what a man is; though perhaps 52 III, VI | that real essence, without knowing what the real essence is, 53 III, X | of gold. But a man, not knowing wherein that real essence 54 III, X | no other way of certainly knowing it but by being informed. 55 III, XI | prevail with men to be very knowing or very silent And he must 56 III, XI | or not at all, the more knowing or orthodox: since subtlety, 57 III, XI | unordinary shape, without knowing whether they have a rational 58 IV, II | discovered by demonstration. Not knowing, therefore, what number 59 IV, III | very far from certainly knowing what his soul is. It is 60 IV, III | one with another. For, not knowing the root they spring from, 61 IV, III | root they spring from, not knowing what size, figure, and texture 62 IV, III | them. We are so far from knowing what figure, size, or motion 63 IV, III | bodies in general, yet not knowing what is the particular bulk, 64 IV, III | are yet more ignorant, not knowing so much as their very outward 65 IV, IV | rules, he will be the more knowing. If it be true, that all 66 IV, IV | whereof is, because we, knowing not what real constitution 67 IV, V | substances we cannot know, but by knowing that such have existed.~ 68 IV, V | of this truth consists in knowing what ideas the words stand 69 IV, VI | proposition. This we usually call knowing, or being certain of the 70 IV, VI | uncertain; because, not knowing this real essence, we cannot 71 IV, VI | an essence, which we, not knowing, cannot know where it is 72 IV, VI | it is necessary for the knowing the properties of a triangle, 73 IV, VI | such an idea. Because, not knowing the real constitution on 74 IV, VIII | one whit the wiser or more knowing: and that way of handling 75 IV, VIII | about the soul, without knowing at all what the soul really 76 IV, VIII | richer, or without even knowing how much a pound, shilling, 77 IV, X | God ~1. We are capable of knowing certainly that there is 78 IV, X | that we are capable of knowing, i.e. being certain that 79 IV, X | most powerful.~5. And most knowing. Again, a man finds in himself 80 IV, X | only some being, but some knowing, intelligent being in the 81 IV, X | then, when there was no knowing being, and when knowledge 82 IV, X | else there has been also a knowing being from eternity. If 83 IV, X | perception, should produce a knowing being, as it is impossible 84 IV, X | most powerful, and most knowing Being; which whether any 85 IV, X | as to suppose man alone knowing and wise, but yet the product 86 IV, X | hence follow, that all other knowing beings that have a beginning 87 IV, X | that Being must also be knowing: yet it does not follow 88 IV, X | that there is an eternal knowing Being, men, devoted to matter, 89 IV, X | have it granted, that this knowing Being is material; and then, 90 IV, X | demonstration whereby an eternal knowing Being was proved necessarily 91 IV, XI | no concernment, either of knowing or being. Such an assurance 92 IV, XI | them, we want the means of knowing their particular existences. 93 IV, XI | in this state capable of knowing. We are not, then, to put 94 IV, XV | ideas to agree, without knowing them to do so, is the wonted 95 IV, XVII | conclude right, without knowing certainly that they do so: 96 IV, XVII | are not men of art, not knowing the true forms of syllogism, 97 IV, XVII | good luck to be perfectly knowing in the forms of syllogism, 98 IV, XVII | contradictions, without knowing how to free itself: and 99 IV, XX | laborious trade, should be more knowing in the variety of things 100 IV, XX | keep them ignorant, lest, knowing more, they should believe 101 IV, XX | empiric’s pills, without knowing what they are made of, or 102 IV, XX | necessary I should yield, not knowing what forces there are in 103 IV, XX | perceive, no more avoid knowing it, than I can avoid seeing 104 IV, XX | probability, than he can avoid knowing it to be true, where he 105 IV, XX | examining, or so much as knowing, the cause they contend