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An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding
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  • Sect. II. Of the Origin of Ideas
  *: It is probable that no more was meant by those, who denied innate ideas, than that all ideas were [...]


  • Sect. III. Of the Association of Ideas
  *: Resemblance.
  *: (2) Contiguity.
  *: (3) Cause and effect.
  *: (4) For instance Contrast or Contrariety is also a connexion among Ideas: but it may, perhaps, be [...]


  • Sect. IV. Sceptical Doubts concerning the Operations of the Understanding
    • PART II.
  *: The word, Power, is here used in a loose and popular sense. The more accurate explication of it wo[...]


  • Sect. V. Sceptical Solution of these Doubts
    • PART I.
  *: Nothing is more useful than for writers, even, on moral, political, or physical subjects, to dist[...]


  • Sect. V. Sceptical Solution of these Doubts
    • PART II.
  *: "Naturane nobis, inquit, datum dicam, an errore quodam, ut, cum ea loca videamus, in quibus memor[...]


  • Sect. VI. Of Probability
  *: Mr. Locke divides all arguments into demonstrative and probable. In this view, we must say, that i[...]


  • Sect. VII. Of the Idea of necessary Connexion
    • PART I.
  *: Section II.
  *: Mr. Locke, in his chapter of power, says that, finding from experience, that there are several ne[...]
  *: It may be pretended, that the resistance which we meet with in bodies, obliging us frequently to [...]
  *: Theos apo mechanes (deus ex machina).
  *: Section XII.
  *: I need not examine at length the vis inertiae which is so much talked of in the new philosophy, an[...]


  • PART II.
  *: According to these explications and definitions, the idea of power is relative as much as that of [...]


  • Sect. VIII. Of Liberty and Necessity
    • PART I.
  *: The prevalence of the doctrine of liberty may be accounted for, from another cause, viz. a false [...]
  *: Thus, if a cause be defined, that which produces any thing; it is easy to observe, that producing [...]


  • Sect. IX. Of the Reason of Animals
  *: Since all reasonings concerning facts or causes is derived merely from custom, it may be asked how[...]


  • Sect. X. Of Miracles
    • PART I.
  *: Plutarch, Marcus Cato.
  *: No Indian, it is evident, could have experience that water did not freeze in cold climates. This [...]
  *: Sometimes an event may not, in itself, seem to be contrary to the laws of nature, and yet, if it w[...]


  • Sect. X. Of Miracles
    • PART II.
  *: Histories, iv. 81. Suetonius gives nearly the same account, Lives of the Caesars (Vespasian).
  *: Lucretius.
  *: Novum Organum, II, aph. 29.


  • Sect. XI. Of a particular Providence and of a future State
  *: Lucian, sump. e Lapithai [The Banquet, or the Lapiths].
  *: (2) Lucian, eunouchos [The Eunuch].
  *: (3) Lucian and Dio.
  *: In general, it may, I think, be established as a maxim, that where any cause is known only by its [...]


  • Sect. XII. Of the academical or sceptical Philosophy
    • PART I.
  *: This argument is drawn from Dr. Berkeley; and indeed most of the writings of that very ingenious [...]


  • Sect. XII. Of the academical or sceptical Philosophy
    • PART II.
  *: Whatever disputes there may be about mathematical points, we must allow that there are physical po[...]
  *: It seems to me not impossible to avoid these absurdities and contradictions, if it be admitted, t[...]


  • Sect. XII. Of the academical or sceptical Philosophy
    • PART III.
  *: That impious maxim of the ancient philosophy, Ex nihilo, nihil fit, by which the creation of matte[...]


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