Date: 1699
"Yet so you [Locke] seem to represent them and their Idea's; and you call them 'Characters, fair Characters, indeleble Characters, stampt, imprinted, engraven' in the Mind; for all those Expressions you use upon that occasion."
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Date: 1699
"Now all these Expressions [concerning natural conscience] seem to signifie clear and distinct Representations, as Pictures or Sculptures represent their Originals."
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Date: 1699
"We suppose these original [or Natural] Impressions to be like Gold in the Oar, that may be refin'd; or rough Diamonds, that by polishing, receive a further lustre"
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Date: 1699
Natural or original impressions are "like Monograms or Sketches, that want their full Lines and Colours to compleat them; and yet one may discern what or whom they are made to represent, though imperfectly drawn"
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Date: 1699
The opponent of innatism "might as well expect, that in a Seed, there should be Leaves, Flowers, and Fruit; or that in the rudiments of an Embryo there should be all the Parts and Members of a compleat Body, distinctly represented"
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Date: 1699
Natural Conscience is a "Natural Light"
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Date: 1699
Locke denies not "that there are Natural Tendences imprinted on the Minds of Men"
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Date: 1701, 1704
"We may the conclude, that whatever we clearly and distinctly perceive is true, and that as long as we have Light before us, and assent to nothing but what we have a clear view and perception of, 'tis impossible we should err, or judge amiss"
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Date: 1701, 1704
And consequently that we may then judge securely, and safely acquiesce and repose our selves in such Judgments, as true and certain, and as it were the undeceiving answers of Truth it self, even that interior Truth, whose School and Oracle is within our Breast, whose Instructions ar...
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Date: 1701, 1704
"And indeed after all, we have no other reason to think any Proposition true in any of the Sciences, but only because we clearly perceive that it is so, and it shines out upon our Minds with and unquestionable and irresistable Light."
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