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John Locke
An essay concerning human understanding

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   Book,  Chapter
1 Read | wondered why one failed to be understood more than the other. But 2 Read | abroad, I desire it should be understood by whoever gives himself 3 Read | to be everywhere rightly understood.~Of this the ingenious author 4 Read | enough written to be rightly understood by those who peruse it with 5 Read | opposer come both to be well understood.~If any other authors, careful 6 Read | consequence to be rightly understood. What I thereupon said was 7 Int | some things are not to be understood. It is of great use to the 8 I, I | propriety, they signify to be understood. So that to be in the understanding, 9 I, I | understanding, and not to be understood; to be in the mind and never 10 I, I | but the other, as soon as understood, are, without any the least 11 I, I | as soon as proposed and understood, proves them not innate. 12 I, I | terms they are proposed in understood: seeing all men, even children, 13 I, I | fail after they have once understood the words, to acknowledge 14 I, I | assent as soon as they are understood. That “two bodies cannot 15 I, I | of it, and is the easier understood of the two, “The same is 16 I, I | assent as soon as heard and understood, that must be admitted for 17 I, II | least as soon as heard and understood) be received and assented 18 I, II | what duty is, cannot be understood without a law; nor a law 19 I, II | virtue, is so hard to be understood; liable to so much uncertainty 20 I, II | general, names, cannot be understood but by knowing the particulars 21 I, III | which it never yet knew or understood? The names impossibility 22 I, III | be doubted of as soon as understood, it was, I know, a short 23 II, I | this discourse, I would be understood to mean, that notice which 24 II, VII | pleasure and pain, I would be understood to signify, whatsoever delights 25 II, VIII | things themselves, I would be understood to mean those qualities 26 II, VIII | colours and smells may be understood also of tastes and sounds, 27 II, VIII | being thus distinguished and understood, we may be able to give 28 II, VIII | other body, it is easy to be understood, that if that motion be 29 II, VIII | nature of sensation a little understood; and to make the difference 30 II, XIII | have our being,” are to be understood in a literal sense, I leave 31 II, XV | properly enough, and should be understood if we said, it is a longer 32 II, XVIII | be the easier and quicker understood. That this is so, and that 33 II, XVIII | the same language, are not understood: v.g. coltshire, drilling, 34 II, XVIII | of them are not generally understood but by smiths and chymists; 35 II, XX | pleasure and pain, I must be understood to mean of body or mind, 36 II, XX | uneasiness, I must all along be understood (as I have above intimated) 37 II, XXI | the sound of words, may be understood in a clear and distinct 38 II, XXI | faculty, or the understanding, understood; and the elective faculty, 39 II, XXI | the ability to understand, understood. For faculty, ability, and 40 II, XXIII | sense I crave leave to be understood, when I name any of these 41 II, XXIII | happen, is yet harder to be understood. We have by daily experience 42 II, XXIII | impossible to be explained or understood by us. For I would fain 43 II, XXVII | Brazilian. I asked whether he understood Brazilian; he said No, but 44 II, XXVIII| heathen philosophers, who well understood wherein their notions of 45 II, XXVIII| that name, being commonly understood to signify also the moral 46 II, XXIX | This perhaps will be fuller understood, after what I say of Words 47 II, XXXI | I must in that sense be understood, when I speak of secondary 48 II, XXXI | which one cannot be well understood, yet truly signify nothing 49 II, XXXI | ordinarily, or are they not understood to give it that name, as 50 III, II | another, it is that he may be understood: and the end of speech is, 51 III, II | in vain, and could not be understood, if the sounds they applied 52 III, III | others, only that they may be understood: which is then only done 53 III, III | term man would be as well understood, and the idea it stands 54 III, IV | imagine he could thereby have understood what the word beweeginge 55 III, IV | which, when one is better understood than the other, may serve 56 III, IV | pretends to define) at all understood by a blind man, but the 57 III, IV | these words never so well understood would make the idea the 58 III, IV | approaching it, though he understood never so well what little 59 III, IV | bragged one day, That he now understood what scarlet signified. 60 III, IV | and so make their names be understood. In such collections of 61 III, IV | that it might be perfectly understood. But yet that definition, 62 III, VI | word gold here, I must be understood to design a particular piece 63 III, VI | will; yet, if they will be understood when they speak of things 64 III, VI | it be but only to make it understood, that there is no such thing 65 III, VII | is commonly as hard to be understood in one as another language. 66 III, IX | fail of having his meaning understood, wherein consists the right 67 III, IX | communication being to be understood, words serve not well for 68 III, IX | the things men would be understood to speak of: and so they 69 III, IX | great concernment to be understood, are liable to the unavoidable 70 III, X | find it necessary to be understood, and therefore they make 71 III, X | because they could not be understood: whilst it appears in all 72 III, X | unlearned men well enough understood the words white and black, & 73 III, X | ordinary commands are easily understood; speaking to their people, 74 III, X | more,) but would have this understood, viz. That gold, i.e. what 75 III, X | either be not minded or not understood. He that applies his names 76 III, X | improperly, and will not be understood. 5. He that thinks the name 77 III, X | from other people: I am not understood, but am thought to have 78 III, XI | understand, and to be clearly understood.~11. Third remedy: To apply 79 III, XI | at least should be, to be understood; which cannot be without 80 III, XI | always the good fortune to be understood; yet most commonly leaves 81 III, XI | which he perceives is not understood, or is in danger to be mistaken, 82 III, XI | will make its name to be understood by those who are acquainted 83 IV, VI | General truths hardly to be understood, but in verbal propositions. 84 IV, VII | be assented to as soon as understood; that is, as soon as we 85 IV, VII | as soon as the terms are understood, makes the truth of the 86 IV, X | creation of the world, being understood by the things that are made, 87 IV, XX | principles, but not rightly understood. There is nothing more familiar


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