Date: 1709
"There croud into his mind the ideas which compose the visible man, in company with all the other ideas of sight perceived at the same time."
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Date: 1709
An "early prejudice" may have "implanted in the mind" a "false persuasion"
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Date: 1709
A "false persuasion" "implanted in the mind" by prejudice may be rooted out
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Date: 1709
Ideas may be "immediately imprinted on the mind"
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Date: 1710
"Now, thought is to the mind what motion is to the body; both are equally improved by exercise and impaired by disuse"
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Date: 1710, 1734
Ideas may be brought "bare and naked" into one's view, keeping out" the names.
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Date: 1710, 1734
"It is evident to any one who takes a survey of the objects of human knowledge, that they are either ideas actually imprinted on the senses"
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Date: 1710, 1734
"That number is entirely the creature of the mind, even though the other qualities be allowed to exist without, will be evident to whoever considers, that the same thing bears a different denomination of number, as the mind views it with different respects."
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Date: 1710, 1734
"But neither can this be said; for though we give the materialists their external bodies, they by their own confession are never the nearer knowing how our ideas are produced: since they own themselves unable to comprehend in what manner body can act upon spirit, or how it is possible it should i...
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Date: 1710, 1734
There are ideas in the mind of God, "which are so many marks or notes that direct him how to produce sensations in our minds" just as a musician uses notes to produce a tune.
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