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John Locke
An essay concerning human understanding

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   Book,  Chapter
1 Read | confusion in men’s thoughts and discourses.~I know there are not words 2 Read | ideas that enter into men’s discourses and reasonings. But this 3 Read | ideas in their inquiries and discourses, they would both discern 4 Read | their own inquiries and discourses went, and avoid the greatest 5 I, III | attention mind the lives and discourses of people not so far off, 6 I, III | happening in controversial discourses as it does in assaulting 7 II, XII | it being unavoidable in discourses, differing from the ordinary 8 II, XIII | But, to avoid confusion in discourses concerning this matter, 9 II, XVII | perpetually involve all discourses concerning infinity,—whether 10 II, XVIII | sake, in their direction or discourses about them. Which ideas 11 II, XXI | but the introducing into discourses concerning the mind, with 12 II, XXIII | other: as he who thinks and discourses of the sun has been more 13 II, XXIX | disorders men’s thoughts and discourses: ideas, as ranked under 14 II, XXIX | and confusion in their discourses.~14. This, if not heeded, 15 II, XXXIII| hope to allay, by rational discourses, the pain of his joints 16 III, III | set before others in their discourses with them. And I doubt not 17 III, IV | wrangling and obscurity in men’s discourses, whilst some demand definitions 18 III, V | those which make up moral discourses: whose names, when men come 19 III, VI | kindness for another man. Adam discourses these his thoughts to Eve, 20 III, VI | not folly: and in these discourses with Eve he makes use of 21 III, IX | adjust them to Philosophical Discourses; there being scarce any 22 III, IX | they are made use of in discourses, wherein men have to do 23 III, IX | uncertainty to the hearer. And in discourses of religion, law, and morality, 24 III, X | advantage, That, as in such discourses they seldom are in the right, 25 III, X | obscure and unintelligible discourses and disputes, which have 26 III, X | knowledge or certainty in our discourses about them; and therefore 27 III, X | of uncertainty in men’s discourses; especially in those who 28 III, X | cause great disorder in discourses and reasonings about them, 29 III, X | enough in their ordinary discourses or affairs. But this is 30 III, X | abuse of it. I confess, in discourses where we seek rather pleasure 31 III, X | they are certainly, in all discourses that pretend to inform or 32 III, XI | Vulgar notions suit vulgar discourses: and both, though confused 33 III, XI | who in their writings and discourses appear to have had the clearest 34 III, XI | those who make not their discourses about moral things very 35 III, XI | when concerned in moral discourses, their divers natures are 36 III, XI | than they do mathematical discourses; where, if the mathematician 37 III, XI | Definitions can make moral discourses clear. This I have here 38 III, XI | consequently in all their moral discourses, to define their words when 39 III, XI | cannot be excused, if their discourses in morality be not much 40 III, XI | be expected, that, in all discourses wherein one man pretends 41 IV, IV | no more weight than the discourses of a man who sees things 42 IV, IV | thoughts, reasonings, and discourses of this kind, we intend 43 IV, IV | things: since most of those discourses which take up the thoughts 44 IV, IV | at all concerned. All the discourses of the mathematicians about 45 IV, IV | truth and certainty of moral discourses abstracts from the lives 46 IV, IV | Indeed, wrong names in moral discourses breed usually more disorder, 47 IV, VIII | very clear and coherent discourses, that amount yet to nothing. 48 IV, VIII | concerning most words used in discourses, equally argumentative and 49 IV, VIII | another, and make their discourses coherent and clear, (how 50 IV, VIII | propositions that make up the discourses we ordinarily meet with, 51 IV, XIII | containing pictures and discourses, capable to delight or instruct 52 IV, XVII | florid, witty, or involved discourses. But that this is a mistake 53 IV, XVII | they are called, rhetorical discourses, is, that their fancies 54 IV, XVII | incoherence of such loose discourses were wholly owing to the 55 IV, XVII | fallacies of artificial discourses; I do not think that all 56 IV, XVII | uncertain signs, often, in discourses and arguings, when not warily 57 IV, XX | incoherent. There are very few discourses so short, clear, and consistent,


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