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John Locke
An essay concerning human understanding

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   Book,  Chapter
1 Read | not to escape more than better writers. Men’s principles, 2 Read | securely, for I shall find some better way of spending my time 3 Read | virtue and vice, yet we are better agreed than he thinks in 4 Int | the way that leads to a better. How short soever their 5 Int | own strength, we shall the better know what to undertake with 6 I, I | be, that a man knows them better after he has been thus taught 7 I, I | very willing to submit to better judgments. And since I impartially 8 I, I | maxims can (I suppose), with better right pretend to be so.  ~ 9 I, II | have been derived from no better original than the superstition 10 I, III | envoy thither, who gives no better account of the Chinese themselves. 11 I, III | doubt, every one will think better for men, than that they 12 I, III | the same reason, say it is better for men that every man himself 13 II, I | disputed by those who have better thought of that matter. 14 II, I | conceived, and would need some better proof than bare assertion 15 II, I | looking-glass is never the better for such ideas, nor the 16 II, II | Uncompounded appearances. The better to understand the nature, 17 II, III | Division of simple ideas. The better to conceive the ideas we 18 II, III | we receive ideas of, much better provided with names. Sweet, 19 II, IV | but if any one think it better to call it impenetrability, 20 II, IV | mind, we shall succeed no better than if we went about to 21 II, VIII | nature of our ideas the better, and to discourse of them 22 II, IX | is, every one will know better by reflecting on what he 23 II, X | freestone, and in others little better than sand, I shall not here 24 II, XI | complex ones,—we may the better examine and learn how the 25 II, XIII | to another purpose, would better determine the place of the 26 II, XIII | extension. For what am I the better informed in the nature of 27 II, XIII | understand what a fibre was better than he did before? Or rather, 28 II, XIII | under-propping, they would better discover to us the very 29 II, XIII | will therefore need some better proof than a supposed matter 30 II, XIV | autumn, would not have a better measure of time than the 31 II, XVI | if any one like the word better) of numbers, so apparent 32 II, XVII | of infinity, cannot do it better than by considering to what 33 II, XVII | such an idea, which is not better than an idea of motion at 34 II, XVII | they have none such) to be better informed by their communication. 35 II, XXI | understand what it is, will better find it by reflecting on 36 II, XXI | or no pain at all. “It is better to marry than to burn,” 37 II, XXI | conveniences of life are better than nasty penury: yet, 38 II, XXI | is plain he then thinks better of it, and would have it 39 II, XXI | never judge, that it was better to be deceived than not, 40 II, XXI | prefer the worse to the better; and to choose that, which, 41 II, XXI | to judge a little in hand better than a great deal to come; 42 II, XXI | from it, what is he the better for seeing? And he that 43 II, XXI | darkness, what is his liberty better than if he were driven up 44 II, XXIII| he would not be in a much better case than the Indian before 45 II, XXIII| jeweller commonly knows better than a philosopher; who, 46 II, XXIII| and powers, which it is better to have than to be without; 47 II, XXIV | another, into one view, the better to contemplate and discourse 48 II, XXIX | observable in it, and which, in a better light, would be discernible. 49 III, I | treated of. But to understand better the use and force of Language, 50 III, I | looked into, we shall the better come to find the right use 51 III, II | gold. Another that hath better observed, adds to shining 52 III, III | if the Latin word pleases better, species of things, are 53 III, IV | speak intelligibly, much better succeeded in defining simple 54 III, IV | passage was, how would they better define it than by motion? 55 III, IV | another; which, when one is better understood than the other, 56 III, IV | Cartesians give us, prove a much better definition of motion, when 57 III, VI | may be made with more and better, or fewer and worse faculties 58 III, VI | each of which we find it better to have than to want; and 59 III, VI | more we have of each the betterjoining all these together, 60 III, VI | proposed, would need some better explication, before it can 61 III, VI | sensible qualities, are often better acquainted with their differences; 62 III, VI | them from their uses; and better know what they expect from 63 III, X | him. Or if he wants to be better stored, the great mintmasters 64 III, X | that “a rational animalbetter described that real essence 65 III, X | for them, would be in no better case than a bookseller, 66 III, XI | be of use, till somebody better able shall judge it worth 67 III, XI | doth it a thousand times better. And the idea of the particular 68 III, XI | the signification will be better made known by enumerating 69 IV, III | conceive nothing of them, is no better an argument than if a blind 70 IV, IV | make their state neither better nor worse, whether we determine 71 IV, IV | soul: which is but little better than to annex the great 72 IV, VI | learning, be treated of in a better and clearer way; yet those 73 IV, VII | two are equal to three, better or more certainly than he 74 IV, VII | was concluded to have the better of the argument, if not 75 IV, VII | is taken away, knows it better in that particular instance, 76 IV, VIII | knowledge of things, no better than trifling.~Instruction 77 IV, VIII | them as instructive is no better than trifling. For no one 78 IV, VIII | would be thought little better than ridiculous to affirm 79 IV, X | nothing else, are perhaps better terms than material and 80 IV, X | thinking being will be no better nor wiser than pure blind 81 IV, XIV | desire and endeavour after a better state: so, in the greatest 82 IV, XVI | more to be alleged for his better information? And yet we 83 IV, XVI | think, that, if men were better instructed themselves, they 84 IV, XVII | as easily, nay, perhaps better, without it.~Men can reason 85 IV, XVII | the extremes, one jot the better. [For those that are not 86 IV, XVII | reasonableness of it is better seen in ranging of the ideas 87 IV, XVII | incoherence of the argumentation better than syllogism; not only 88 IV, XVII | discourse, wherewith others better skilled in syllogism have 89 IV, XVII | other might be shown, and better shown without them, to those 90 IV, XVII | the extremes clearer and better, if it were placed in the 91 IV, XVII | a proof, or to assign a better. And this I call argumentum 92 IV, XVII | him, because I know not a better. 3. Nor does it follow that 93 IV, XVII | not be able to produce a better: I may be in an error, and 94 IV, XIX | to put out his eyes, the better to receive the remote light 95 IV, XX | helps, are yet never the better for them. Their hot pursuit


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