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aversion 6
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John Locke
An essay concerning human understanding

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1 Read | and discourses went, and avoid the greatest part of the 2 Int | thinking; and I could not avoid frequently using it.~I presume 3 I, I | of reason, answered. To avoid this, it is usually answered, 4 I, II | conscience prosecute what others avoid.~9. Instances of enormities 5 I, II | rational creature can hardly avoid giving his assent to, yet 6 I, III | own countries, can scarce avoid having some kind of ideas 7 II, I | impressions; and cannot avoid the perception of those 8 II, VII | employ our faculties to avoid that, as to pursue this: 9 II, IX | it perceives, it cannot avoid perceiving.~2. Reflection 10 II, X | makes both the old and young avoid painful objects with that 11 II, XI | least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, 12 II, XIII | that was there. But, to avoid confusion in discourses 13 II, XV | abstract conception, to avoid confusion, I call expansion, 14 II, XV | duration, and we cannot avoid doing so: but, not attributing 15 II, XVII | it was yesterday. If, to avoid succession in external existence, 16 II, XXI | In most of them we cannot avoid observing their sensible 17 II, XXI | circumstances it cannot avoid, nor obtain their absence 18 II, XXI | preference of his will, he cannot avoid willing the existence or 19 II, XXI | being that which he cannot avoid, a man, in respect of that 20 II, XXI | forbear willing; it cannot avoid some determination concerning 21 II, XXI | volition must be defined. To avoid these and the like absurdities, 22 II, XXI | power to produce it. To avoid multiplying of words, I 23 II, XXI | position of my eyes or body, avoid receiving them. But when 24 II, XXI | these two new words, to avoid the danger of being mistaken 25 II, XXII | to be annexed to them, to avoid long periphrases in things 26 II, XXII | talk about, new names, to avoid long descriptions, are annexed 27 II, XXII | their use, yet I could not avoid to take this much notice 28 II, XXIII | not see things he was to avoid, at a convenient distance; 29 II, XXIII | scattering asunder. If, to avoid this difficulty, any one 30 II, XXVIII| get determined ideas, and avoid, as much as may be, obscurity 31 III, I | that ought to be used, to avoid the inconveniences of obscurity 32 III, IV | And therefore when, to avoid unpleasant enumerations, 33 III, V | beyond others; and this to avoid circumlocutions and tedious 34 III, VI | essense is supposed. To avoid this therefore, they have 35 III, IX | their notions, do yet hardly avoid the inconvenience to have 36 IV, X | and I believe nobody can avoid the cogency of it, who will 37 IV, X | supposition:—there being no way to avoid the demonstration, that 38 IV, XI | sometimes I find that I cannot avoid the having those ideas produced 39 IV, XI | towards the sun, I cannot avoid the ideas which the light 40 IV, XI | themselves upon me, and I cannot avoid having. And therefore it 41 IV, XVI | one writer, a man cannot avoid believing it, and can as 42 IV, XVIII | wise God, that he cannot avoid thinking them ridiculous 43 IV, XX | which no rational man can avoid to do sometimes: nor shall 44 IV, XX | refuse to perceive, no more avoid knowing it, than I can avoid 45 IV, XX | avoid knowing it, than I can avoid seeing those objects which 46 IV, XX | assent: and a man can no more avoid assenting, or taking it 47 IV, XX | probability, than he can avoid knowing it to be true, where


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