Book,  Chapter

  1      I,  I    |           more opposite to reason and experience. Universal and ready assent
  2      I,  II   |             is that which every day’s experience confirms; and will not,
  3      I,  III  |            more, nor other, than what experience, and the observation of
  4      I,  III  |            hath done so, when certain experience shows us that he hath not.
  5      I,  III  |              itself, as far as my own experience and observation will assist
  6      I,  III  |             to men’s own unprejudiced experience and observation whether
  7     II,  I    |             one’s own observation and experience.~2. All ideas come from
  8     II,  I    |             answer, in one word, from EXPERIENCE. In that all our knowledge
  9     II,  I    |             other fountain from which experience furnisheth the understanding
 10     II,  I    |            man. We know certainly, by experience, that we sometimes think;
 11     II,  I    |               no further assured than experience informs us. For, to say
 12     II,  I    |               make it out by sensible experience, and not presume on matter
 13     II,  I    |         forces us to admit, or common experience makes it impudence to deny.
 14     II,  I    |      knowledge here can go beyond his experience. Wake a man out of a sound
 15     II,  I    |            enough to destroy constant experience; and perhaps it is the affectation
 16     II,  I    |           informed by observation and experience, and not make his own hypothesis
 17     II,  I    |               the matter it gets from experience to think about. Follow a
 18     II,  IV   |            ideas we have, are such as experience teaches them us; but if,
 19     II,  VII  |            clearer to us than our own experience does, which is the only
 20     II,  VIII |             appeal to every one’s own experience, whether the shadow of a
 21     II,  IX   |            though he has obtained the experience of how a globe, how a cube
 22     II,  IX   |              has not yet obtained the experience, that what affects his touch
 23     II,  IX   |            much he may be beholden to experience, improvement, and acquired
 24     II,  IX   |              whereof we have frequent experience, is performed so constantly
 25     II,  XI   |              wherein I must appeal to experience and observation whether
 26     II,  XI   |             to imagine.~16. Appeal to experience. To deal truly, this is
 27     II,  XIV  |              give no other reason but experience: and I would have any one
 28     II,  XVIII|       enumeration to the thoughts and experience of my reader.~6. Some simple
 29     II,  XIX  |               waking man, every one’s experience convinces him; though the
 30     II,  XIX  |            think almost every one has experience of in himself, and his own
 31     II,  XIX  |           matter of fact and constant experience, I ask whether it be not
 32     II,  XX   |          ideas of the senses, only by experience. For, to define them by
 33     II,  XXI  |           ourselves; where we find by experience, that, barely by willing
 34     II,  XXI  |          endeavour to show, both from experience, and the reason of the thing.~
 35     II,  XXI  |             and made good by constant experience, may in this, and possibly
 36     II,  XXI  |               into the reason of what experience makes so evident in fact,
 37     II,  XXI  |              is not so, is visible in experience; the infinitely greatest
 38     II,  XXI  |               cases, as is evident in experience, a power to suspend the
 39     II,  XXI  |         examination, is in our power; experience showing us, that in most
 40     II,  XXI  |              visible, and every one’s experience shows him he can do so;
 41     II,  XXII |            able to make any one idea, experience shows us. But if we attentively
 42     II,  XXII |          ideas of mixed modes:—(1) By experience and observation of things
 43     II,  XXIII|               simple ideas as are, by experience and observation of men’s
 44     II,  XXIII|             appeal to every one’s own experience. It is the ordinary qualities
 45     II,  XXIII|             of our minds, every day’s experience clearly furnishes us with:
 46     II,  XXIII|          understood. We have by daily experience clear evidence of motion
 47     II,  XXIII|             ascribe to body. Constant experience makes us sensible of both
 48     II,  XXIII|              there are thinking ones: experience assures us of the existence
 49     II,  XXIII|              this we cannot doubt of. Experience, I say, every moment furnishes
 50     II,  XXVII|               should not, it is plain experience would be against them. So
 51    III,  III  |              expressed by two others. Experience sufficiently satisfies us
 52    III,  IV   |  insignificancy more plainly; because experience will easily convince any
 53    III,  IV   |             received by sensation and experience, no words are able to excite
 54    III,  IV   |            consist have been got from experience. Simple ideas, as has been
 55    III,  IV   |             shown, can only be got by experience from those objects which
 56    III,  VI   |          especially are often, by sad experience, convinced of it, when they,
 57    III,  VI   |           different in several men as experience tells us they are. For if
 58    III,  IX   |           been taught by tradition or experience. Who of all these has established
 59     IV,  III  |               little further than our experience. Indeed some few of the
 60     IV,  III  |            co-exist, any further than experience, by our senses, informs
 61     IV,  III  |         reaches much further than our experience; or whether we can come
 62     IV,  III  |       knowledge (I say not particular experience) in this part much further.
 63     IV,  III  |               this part much further. Experience is that which in this part
 64     IV,  III  |            such operations beyond our experience; and can reason no otherwise
 65     IV,  III  |              primary qualities which (experience shows us) produce them in
 66     IV,  III  |               mind. That it is so, if experience did not convince us, the
 67     IV,  III  |               further than particular experience informs us matter of fact,
 68     IV,  III  |              is to be known only from experience. But having more to say
 69     IV,  IV   |              nature, any further than experience and sensible observation
 70     IV,  V    |              when verbal. Every one’s experience will satisfy him, that the
 71     IV,  VI   |             often guess right at what experience has not yet discovered to
 72     IV,  VII  |             to the mind is evident to experience, as we have shown in another
 73     IV,  VII  |              further than grounded on experience. And though the consequence
 74     IV,  IX   |           thought which I call doubt. Experience then convinces us, that
 75     IV,  X    |          power, but that you have the experience of the one in view, and
 76     IV,  X    |        possible, against the constant experience we have of it in ourselves,
 77     IV,  XII  |           abstract ideas, but only by experience. In our search after the
 78     IV,  XII  |             themselves as they exist. Experience here must teach me what
 79     IV,  XII  |               malleable, or no; which experience (which way ever it prove
 80     IV,  XII  |                I must apply myself to experience; as far as that reaches,
 81     IV,  XII  |        knowledge, but no further.~10. Experience may procure us convenience,
 82     IV,  XII  |       knowledge in substances only by experience and history, which is all
 83     IV,  XII  |             we cannot discover; there experience, observation, and natural
 84     IV,  XIV  |              we might, by every day’s experience, be made sensible of our
 85     IV,  XV   |               conformity with our own experience, or the testimony of others’
 86     IV,  XV   |              the testimony of others’ experience. Probability then, being
 87     IV,  XV   |           knowledge, observation, and experience.~Secondly, The testimony
 88     IV,  XV   |        vouching their observation and experience. In the testimony of others
 89     IV,  XV   |         belief. Though to a man whose experience has always been quite contrary,
 90     IV,  XV   |            frequency and constancy of experience and the number and credibility
 91     IV,  XVI  |          testimony.~6. The concurrent experience of all other men with ours,
 92     IV,  XVI  |            constant and never-failing experience in like cases, to confirm
 93     IV,  XVI  |             agreeable to our constant experience, as often as we have to
 94     IV,  XVI  | Unquestionable testimony, and our own experience that a thing is for the
 95     IV,  XVI  |             is, when I find by my own experience, and the agreement of all
 96     IV,  XVI  |               in all ages, and my own experience, as far as I had an opportunity
 97     IV,  XVI  |              himself is a witness.~9. Experience and testimonies clashing
 98     IV,  XVI  |         testimonies contradict common experience, and the reports of history
 99     IV,  XVI  |               One case where contrary experience lessens not the testimony.
100     IV,  XVI  |          testimony. Though the common experience and the ordinary course
101     IV,  XVI  |               or disagree with common experience, and the ordinary course
102     IV,  XVII |             discover them.~I have had experience how ready some men are,
103     IV,  XIX  |             what they have a sensible experience of admits no doubt, needs
104     IV,  XX   |            senses, and give their own experience the lie, rather than admit
105     IV,  XX   |           suppositions upon universal experience, are so cogent and clear,