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John Locke
An essay concerning human understanding

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fire

   Book,  Chapter
1 I, I | proposition, “That an apple is not fire,” when by familiar acquaintance 2 I, I | that the names apple and fire stand for them; yet it will 3 I, II | with the transgression, a fire ready to punish it; a pleasure 4 I, III | no more than the names of fire, or the sun, heat, or number, 5 I, III | any notion of numbers, or fire.~10. Ideas of God and idea 6 I, III | Ideas of God and idea of fire. The name of God being once 7 I, III | as well prove the idea of fire innate; since I think it 8 I, III | has not also the idea of fire. I doubt not but if a colony 9 I, III | placed in an island where no fire was, they would certainly 10 II, VIII | qualities. For the power in fire to produce a new colour, 11 II, VIII | is as much a quality in fire, as the power it has to 12 II, VIII | will consider that the same fire that, at one distance produces 13 II, VIII | was produced in him by the fire, is actually in the fire; 14 II, VIII | fire, is actually in the fire; and his idea of pain, which 15 II, VIII | of pain, which the same fire produced in him the same 16 II, VIII | same way, is not in the fire. Why are whiteness and coldness 17 II, VIII | and motion of the parts of fire or snow are really in them,— 18 II, VIII | power to make wax white, and fire to make lead fluid. These 19 II, IX | there is no perception. Fire may burn our bodies with 20 II, XIV | some have taken to be a fire, had been lighted up at 21 II, XXI | call power. Thus we say, Fire has a power to melt gold, 22 II, XXIII| by our senses perceive in fire its heat and colour; which 23 II, XXIII| knowledge of another power in fire, which it has to change 24 II, XXIII| of wood. By the former, fire immediately, by the latter, 25 II, XXIII| part of the qualities of fire, and so make them a part 26 II, XXIII| not spending itself in the fire; of being dissolved in aqua 27 II, XXVI | called, by the application of fire, is turned into another 28 II, XXVI | we call wood; we consider fire, in relation to ashes, as 29 II, XXXI | beings in them. For, though fire be called painful to the 30 II, XXXI | really something in the fire, more than a power to excite 31 II, XXXI | called qualities in or of the fire. But these being nothing, 32 II, XXXI | receive the impressions fire makes on the sight and touch, 33 II, XXXI | those impressions from the fire or sun, there would yet 34 II, XXXI | relation to the operation of fire upon it; another, its ductility 35 III, IX | different application only of fire; and how much a greater 36 III, IX | yellow shining bodies as by fire will be reduced to ashes; 37 III, IX | shining yellow colour, will by fire be reduced to fusion, and 38 III, IX | from it as the fusion by fire; and they are both of them 39 IV, I | a power to remain in the fire unconsumed, is an idea that 40 IV, II | dreaming of being in the fire, and being actually in it. 41 IV, II | call being actually in the fire is nothing but a dream; 42 IV, II | that any such thing as fire actually exists without 43 IV, III | especially the philosophers by fire, who pretend to it, had 44 IV, XI | without us. He that sees a fire, may, if he doubt whether 45 IV, XVI | our knowledge. Thus, That fire warmed a man, made lead 46 IV, XVI | produces heat, and very often fire itself, we have reason to 47 IV, XVI | that what we call heat and fire consists in a violent agitation


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