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1 Int | have; and can set down any measures of the certainty of our 2 Int | knowledge; and examine by what measures, in things whereof we have 3 Int | If we can find out those measures, whereby a rational creature, 4 I, II | confounding the known and natural measures of right and wrong, cannot 5 I, II | innate, unless the particular measures and bounds of all virtues 6 I, II | practical instances, the measures must be taken from the knowledge 7 II, XIII | any such stated lengths or measures of space are made familiar 8 II, XIV | Time is duration set out by measures. Having thus got the idea 9 II, XIV | periods, and marked by certain measures or epochs, is that, I think, 10 II, XIV | and moon, the properest measures of time for mankind. The 11 II, XIV | duration itself, and the measures we make use of to judge 12 II, XIV | course: but none of the measures of it which we make use 13 II, XIV | remaining clear, though our measures of it cannot (any of them) 14 II, XIV | and years not necessary measures of duration. Minutes, hours, 15 II, XIV | where they no more use there measures of ours, than in Japan they 16 II, XIV | revolutions. But the different measures that may be made use of 17 II, XIV | make use of those different measures.~24. Our measure of time 18 II, XIV | the candle lasted.~28. Our measures of duration dependent on 19 II, XIV | of duration, and of the measures of it. And thus I think 20 II, XIV | ideas of duration, and the measures of it.~For, First, by observing 21 II, XIV | ideas of certain lengths or measures of duration, as minutes, 22 II, XIV | being able to repeat those measures of time, or ideas of stated 23 II, XIV | as set out by periodical measures, we come by the idea of 24 II, XV | corporeal beings, and all the measures of time, taken from the 25 II, XV | of either as we design by measures taken from the bulk or motion 26 II, XV | and are accordingly our measures of time; but such other 27 II, XV | makes use of the common measures, which, by familiar use 28 II, XVI | be attained to.~8. Number measures all measureables. This further 29 II, XVII | years; which are the common measures, whereof we have the ideas 30 II, XVIII | different ideas of motion, the measures whereof are made of the 31 II, XVIII | names to them, as wanting measures nicely to distinguish them; 32 II, XXI | imposed on himself wrong measures of good and evil; which, 33 II, XXI | their behaviour here, the measures of good and evil that govern 34 II, XXI | judgments of them; taking our measures of them in different positions 35 II, XXI | judged of it by unequal measures. Were the pleasure of drinking 36 II, XXVIII| laws that they take their measures, when they would judge of 37 III, III | abstract ideas (which are the measures of name, and the boundaries 38 III, V | less compounded than the measures of time, extension and weight; 39 III, V | these should make use of the measures that those of the other 40 III, VI | abstract ideas are to us the measures of the species we make: 41 III, VI | vain to inquire; whilst our measures of species be, as they are, 42 III, VI | to us, who have no other measures than the complex ideas of 43 IV, II | for us to have any exact measures of the different degrees 44 IV, III | those in mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might 45 IV, VII | were looked on as general measures of truth, and served instead 46 IV, VIII | and what is wrong, nor the measures of them, can with as much 47 IV, XI | angles of a figure, which he measures by lines and angles of a 48 IV, XII | nature, will have other measures of moral rectitude and pravity, 49 IV, XVIII | may come to lay down the measures and boundaries between faith 50 IV, XVIII | truth and falsehood, no measures of credible and incredible 51 IV, XX | will to see them. IV. Wrong measures of probability.~2. First 52 IV, XX | Fourth cause of error, wrong measures of Probability. Fourthly, 53 IV, XX | who have taken up wrong measures of probability, which are: 54 IV, XX | consideration of all the measures of it: yet we can hinder 55 IV, XX | error will lie in wrong measures of probability; as the foundation 56 IV, XX | foundation of vice in wrong measures of good.~17. IV. Authority. 57 IV, XX | than take them up by such measures. All men are liable to error, 58 IV, XXI | seeking out those rules and measures of human actions, which