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Single Idea 19911
[filed under theme 24. Political Theory / C. Ruling a State / 4. Changing the State / c. Revolution
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Full Idea
Whenever the legislators endeavour to take away and destroy the property of the people, or reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.
Gist of Idea
If legislators confiscate property, or enslave people, they are no longer owed obedience
Source
John Locke (Second Treatise of Government [1690], 222)
Book Ref
Locke,John: 'Two Treatises of Government' [Everyman 1988], p.229
A Reaction
This might fit Louis XVI in 1788. Locke was certainly not averse to consideration the situations in which revolution might be justified. He was trying to be even-handed about 1642. Locke seems to think that without property you ARE a slave.
Related Idea
Idea 19905
People stripped of their property are legitimately subject to despotism [Locke]
The
280 ideas
from John Locke
5654
|
The Second Treatise explores the consequences of the contractual view of the state
[Locke, by Scruton]
|
6580
|
Locke (and Marx) held that ownership of objects is a natural relation, based on the labour put into it
[Locke, by Fogelin]
|
20520
|
Locke says 'mixing of labour' entitles you to land, as well as nuts and berries
[Wolff,J on Locke]
|
19863
|
Politics is the right to make enforceable laws to protect property and the state, for the common good
[Locke]
|
19864
|
In nature men can dispose of possessions and their persons in any way that is possible
[Locke]
|
19865
|
There is no subjection in nature, and all creatures of the same species are equal
[Locke]
|
19866
|
The rational law of nature says we are all equal and independent, and should show mutual respect
[Locke]
|
19867
|
Reparation and restraint are the only justifications for punishment
[Locke]
|
19868
|
It is only by a law of Nature that we can justify punishing foreigners
[Locke]
|
19869
|
Punishment should make crime a bad bargain, leading to repentance and deterrence
[Locke]
|
19870
|
If you try to enslave me, you have declared war on me
[Locke]
|
19871
|
Freedom is not absence of laws, but living under laws arrived at by consent
[Locke]
|
19872
|
The animals and fruits of the earth belong to mankind
[Locke]
|
19873
|
We all own our bodies, and the work we do is our own
[Locke]
|
19874
|
If a man mixes his labour with something in Nature, he thereby comes to own it
[Locke]
|
19875
|
A man's labour gives ownership rights - as long as there are fair shares for all
[Locke]
|
19876
|
Gathering natural fruits gives ownership; the consent of other people is irrelevant
[Locke]
|
19877
|
Fountain water is everyone's, but a drawn pitcher of water has an owner
[Locke]
|
19878
|
Mixing labour with a thing bestows ownership - as long as the thing is not wasted
[Locke]
|
19879
|
A man owns land if he cultivates it, to the limits of what he needs
[Locke]
|
19880
|
All value depends on the labour involved
[Locke]
|
19881
|
The aim of law is not restraint, but to make freedom possible
[Locke]
|
19882
|
We are not created for solitude, but are driven into society by our needs
[Locke]
|
19883
|
Slaves captured in a just war have no right to property, so are not part of civil society
[Locke]
|
19884
|
There is only a civil society if the members give up all of their natural executive rights
[Locke]
|
19885
|
Absolute monarchy is inconsistent with civil society
[Locke]
|
19886
|
The idea that absolute power improves mankind is confuted by history
[Locke]
|
19887
|
Unanimous consent makes a united community, which is then ruled by the majority
[Locke]
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19888
|
A society only begins if there is consent of all the individuals to join it
[Locke]
|
19892
|
Children are not born into citizenship of a state
[Locke]
|
6702
|
If anyone enjoys the benefits of government (even using a road) they give tacit assent to its laws
[Locke]
|
19893
|
Anyone who enjoys the benefits of a state has given tacit consent to be part of it
[Locke]
|
19894
|
You can only become an actual member of a commonwealth by an express promise
[Locke]
|
19895
|
Even the legislature must be preceded by a law which gives it power to make laws
[Locke]
|
19898
|
Soldiers can be commanded to die, but not to hand over their money
[Locke]
|
19899
|
The consent of the people is essential for any tax
[Locke]
|
19900
|
The executive must not be the legislature, or they may exempt themselves from laws
[Locke]
|
19901
|
The people have supreme power, to depose a legislature which has breached their trust
[Locke]
|
19906
|
All countries are in a mutual state of nature
[Locke]
|
19902
|
Any obstruction to the operation of the legislature can be removed forcibly by the people
[Locke]
|
19903
|
Despotism is arbitrary power to kill, based neither on natural equality, nor any social contract
[Locke]
|
19905
|
People stripped of their property are legitimately subject to despotism
[Locke]
|
19907
|
There is a natural right to inheritance within a family
[Locke]
|
19908
|
Rebelling against an illegitimate power is no sin
[Locke]
|
19904
|
Legitimate prisoners of war are subject to despotism, because that continues the state of war
[Locke]
|
19909
|
A politic society is created from a state of nature by a unanimous agreement
[Locke]
|
19910
|
A single will creates the legislature, which is duty-bound to preserve that will
[Locke]
|
19911
|
If legislators confiscate property, or enslave people, they are no longer owed obedience
[Locke]
|
19912
|
Self-defence is natural, but not the punishment of superiors by inferiors
[Locke]
|
19913
|
A master forfeits ownership of slaves he abandons
[Locke]
|
15973
|
In my view Locke's 'textures' are groups of corpuscles which are powers (rather than 'having' powers)
[Locke, by Alexander,P]
|
6725
|
Locke believes matter is an inert, senseless substance, with extension, figure and motion
[Locke, by Berkeley]
|
15982
|
Qualities are named as primary if they are needed for scientific explanation
[Locke, by Alexander,P]
|
15989
|
Colours, smells and tastes are ideas; the secondary qualities have no colour, smell or taste
[Locke, by Alexander,P]
|
2793
|
It is unclear how identity, equality, perfection, God, power and cause derive from experience
[Locke, by Dancy,J]
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2555
|
For Locke knowledge relates to objects, not to propositions
[Locke, by Rorty]
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16037
|
Locke seems to use real essence for scientific explanation, and substratum for the being of a thing
[Locke, by Jones,J-E]
|
12804
|
There are no independent natural kinds - or our classifications have to be subjective
[Locke, by Jolley]
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16031
|
Real essence explains observable qualities, but not what kind of thing it is
[Locke, by Jones,J-E]
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15646
|
If essence is 'nominal', artificial gold (with its surface features) would qualify as 'gold'
[Locke, by Eagle]
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12306
|
'Nominal essence' is everything contained in the idea of a particular sort of thing
[Locke, by Copi]
|
5827
|
A species of thing is an abstract idea, and a word is a sign that refers to the idea
[Locke]
|
6712
|
For Locke, abstract ideas are our main superiority of understanding over animals
[Locke, by Berkeley]
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7721
|
Locke's view that thoughts are made of ideas asserts the crucial role of imagination
[Locke]
|
5512
|
Locke uses 'self' for a momentary entity, and 'person' for an extended one
[Locke, by Martin/Barresi]
|
5175
|
Personal identity is my perceptions, but not my memory, as I forget too much
[Ayer on Locke]
|
5511
|
For Locke, conscious awareness unifies a person at an instant and over time
[Locke, by Martin/Barresi]
|
6139
|
Locke implies that each thought has two thinkers - me, and 'my' substance
[Merricks on Locke]
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5513
|
Two persons might have qualitatively identical consciousnesses, so that isn't enough
[Kant on Locke]
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1345
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Locke's move from substance to consciousness is a slippery slope
[Butler on Locke]
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9438
|
Maybe analysis seeks the 'nominal essence', and metaphysics seeks the 'real essence'
[Locke, by Mumford]
|
15966
|
Boyle and Locke believed corpuscular structures necessitate their powers of interaction
[Locke, by Alexander,P]
|
15986
|
Boyle and Locke suspect forces of being occult
[Locke, by Alexander,P]
|
8084
|
Syllogisms are verbal fencing, not discovery
[Locke]
|
6488
|
Locke has no patience with scepticism
[Locke, by Robinson,H]
|
15983
|
Locke explains powers, but effectively eliminates them with his talk of internal structure
[Locke, by Alexander,P]
|
6487
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Locke, Berkeley and Hume did no serious thinking about universals
[Robinson,H on Locke]
|
12810
|
We can conceive an individual without assigning it to a kind
[Locke, by Jolley]
|
16787
|
Explanatory essence won't do, because it won't distinguish the accidental from the essential
[Locke, by Pasnau]
|
16028
|
Lockean real essence makes a thing what it is, and produces its observable qualities
[Locke, by Jones,J-E]
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7653
|
I am just an under-labourer, clearing the ground in preparation for knowledge
[Locke]
|
7570
|
Innate ideas are trivial (if they are just potentials) or absurd (if they claim infants know a lot)
[Locke, by Jolley]
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6486
|
Ideas are the objects of understanding when we think
[Locke]
|
15967
|
The word 'idea' covers thinking best, for imaginings, concepts, and basic experiences
[Locke]
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12471
|
Innate ideas are nothing, if they are in the mind but we are unaware of them
[Locke]
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2603
|
If we aren't aware that an idea is innate, the concept of innate is meaningless; if we do, all ideas seem innate
[Locke]
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12472
|
If the only test of innateness is knowing, then all of our knowledge is innate
[Locke]
|
7709
|
A proposition can't be in the mind if we aren't conscious of it
[Locke]
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7723
|
The senses first let in particular ideas, which furnish the empty cabinet
[Locke]
|
12473
|
We can demand a reason for any moral rule
[Locke]
|
4130
|
There couldn't be a moral rule of which a man could not justly demand a reason
[Locke]
|
4018
|
Innate ideas were followed up with innate doctrines, which stopped reasoning and made social control possible
[Locke]
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10326
|
Other men's opinions don't add to our knowledge - even when they are true
[Locke]
|
7724
|
All the ideas written on the white paper of the mind can only come from one place - experience
[Locke]
|
7507
|
The mind is white paper, with no writing, or ideas
[Locke]
|
12474
|
The mind is a blank page, on which only experience can write
[Locke]
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12475
|
All our ideas derive either from sensation, or from inner reflection
[Locke]
|
5002
|
Consciousness is the perception of what passes in a man's own mind
[Locke]
|
16685
|
An insurmountable force in a body keeps our hands apart when we handle it
[Locke]
|
12476
|
Every external object or internal idea suggests to us the idea of unity
[Locke]
|
12477
|
We get the idea of power from our own actions, and the interaction of external bodies
[Locke]
|
12478
|
A 'quality' is a power to produce an idea in our minds
[Locke]
|
12479
|
Primary qualities produce simple ideas, such as solidity, extension, motion and number
[Locke]
|
15971
|
Secondary qualities are powers of complex primary qualities to produce sensations in us
[Locke]
|
16032
|
To explain qualities, Locke invokes primary and secondary qualities, not real essences
[Locke, by Jones,J-E]
|
12480
|
Ideas of primary qualities resemble their objects, but those of secondary qualities don't
[Locke]
|
7049
|
In Locke, the primary qualities are also powers
[Locke, by Heil]
|
7050
|
I suspect that Locke did not actually believe colours are 'in the mind'
[Locke, by Heil]
|
12481
|
Hands can report conflicting temperatures, but not conflicting shapes
[Locke]
|
12482
|
Molyneux's Question: could a blind man distinguish cube from sphere, if he regained his sight?
[Locke]
|
9083
|
The mind creates abstractions by generalising about appearances of objects, ignoring time or place
[Locke]
|
12483
|
Unlike humans, animals cannot entertain general ideas
[Locke]
|
15980
|
We can locate the parts of the universe, but not the whole thing
[Locke]
|
12484
|
Motion is just change of distance between two things
[Locke]
|
12485
|
We don't know what substance is, and only vaguely know what it does
[Locke]
|
12486
|
An 'instant' is where we perceive no succession, and is the time of a single idea
[Locke]
|
12487
|
We can never show that two successive periods of time were equal
[Locke]
|
12488
|
The idea of 'one' is the simplest, most obvious and most widespread idea
[Locke]
|
7782
|
Every simple idea we ever have brings the idea of unity along with it
[Locke]
|
12489
|
If there were real infinities, you could add two together, which is ridiculous
[Locke]
|
4019
|
Things are good and evil only in reference to pleasure and pain
[Locke]
|
12490
|
Power is active or passive, and has a relation to actions
[Locke]
|
12491
|
Asking whether man's will is free is liking asking if sleep is fast or virtue is square
[Locke]
|
12492
|
Liberty is a power of agents, so can't be an attribute of wills
[Locke]
|
12493
|
A man is free insofar as he can act according to his own preferences
[Locke]
|
12494
|
Men are not free to will, because they cannot help willing
[Locke]
|
3792
|
We are free to decide not to follow our desires
[Locke]
|
12495
|
Pursuit of happiness is the highest perfection of intellectual nature
[Locke]
|
12496
|
Complex ideas are all resolvable into simple ideas
[Locke]
|
12497
|
Causes are the substances which have the powers to produce action
[Locke]
|
7713
|
We identify substances by supposing that groups of sensations arise from an essence
[Locke]
|
12498
|
Particular substances are coexisting ideas that seem to flow from a hidden essence
[Locke]
|
7945
|
We think of substance as experienced qualities plus a presumed substratum of support
[Locke]
|
8546
|
Powers are part of our idea of substances
[Locke]
|
15979
|
Secondary qualities are simply the bare powers of an object
[Locke]
|
16038
|
Locke may distinguish real essence from internal constitution, claiming the latter is knowable
[Locke, by Jones,J-E]
|
12499
|
Bodies distinctively have cohesion of parts, and power to communicate motion
[Locke]
|
16637
|
The absolute boundaries of our thought are the ideas we get from senses and the mind
[Locke]
|
12500
|
Thinking without matter and matter that thinks are equally baffling
[Locke]
|
12503
|
Identity means that the idea of a thing remains the same over time
[Locke]
|
12501
|
The mind can make a unity out of anything, no matter how diverse
[Locke]
|
12502
|
Comparisons boil down to simple elements of sensation or reflection
[Locke]
|
16796
|
Locke may accept coinciding material substances, such as body, man and person
[Locke, by Pasnau]
|
1211
|
Viewing an object at an instant, we perceive identity when we see it must be that thing and not another
[Locke]
|
12505
|
One thing cannot have two beginnings of existence, nor two things one beginning
[Locke]
|
12504
|
Two things can't occupy one place and time, which leads us to the idea of self-identity
[Locke]
|
1197
|
No two thoughts at different times can be the same, as they have different beginnings
[Locke]
|
1196
|
We can conceive of three sorts of substance: God, finite intelligence, and bodies
[Locke]
|
12508
|
Living things retain identity through change, by a principle of organisation
[Locke]
|
12506
|
A thing is individuated just by existing at a time and place
[Locke]
|
12507
|
A mass consists of its atoms, so the addition or removal of one changes its identity
[Locke]
|
12509
|
If the soul individuates a man, and souls are transferable, then a hog could be a man
[Locke]
|
16795
|
Same person, man or substance are different identities, belonging to different ideas
[Locke]
|
12510
|
Not all identity is unity of substance
[Locke]
|
16797
|
Maybe Locke described the real essence of a person
[Locke, by Pasnau]
|
1202
|
A person is intelligent, rational, self-aware, continuous, conscious
[Locke]
|
1364
|
Locke confuses the test for personal identity with the thing itself
[Reid on Locke]
|
12511
|
If consciousness is interrupted, and we forget our past selves, are we still the same thinking thing?
[Locke]
|
1372
|
Our personal identity must depend on something we are aware of, namely consciousness
[Locke]
|
1363
|
Locke's theory confusingly tries to unite consciousness and memory
[Reid on Locke]
|
1368
|
Locke mistakes similarity of a memory to its original event for identity
[Reid on Locke]
|
1373
|
Identity over time involves remembering actions just as they happened
[Locke]
|
1361
|
If identity is consciousness, could a person move between bodies or fragment into parts?
[Reid on Locke]
|
1376
|
Identity must be in consciousness not substance, because it seems transferable
[Locke]
|
12512
|
If someone becomes conscious of Nestor's actions, then he is Nestor
[Locke]
|
21326
|
Locke's memory theory of identity confuses personal identity with the test for it
[Reid on Locke]
|
12513
|
If a prince's soul entered a cobbler's body, the person would be the prince (and the man the cobbler)
[Locke]
|
1378
|
My little finger is part of me if I am conscious of it
[Locke]
|
1380
|
Should we punish people who commit crimes in their sleep?
[Locke]
|
1381
|
Someone mad then sane is two persons, judging by our laws and punishments
[Locke]
|
12514
|
On Judgement Day, no one will be punished for actions they cannot remember
[Locke]
|
1397
|
Locke sees underlying substance as irrelevant to personal identity
[Locke, by Noonan]
|
1387
|
Butler thought Locke's theory was doomed once he rejected mental substance
[Perry on Locke]
|
1385
|
'Person' is a term used about responsibility, involving law, and happiness and misery
[Locke]
|
1386
|
A concern for happiness is the inevitable result of consciousness
[Locke]
|
12515
|
Actions are virtuous if they are judged praiseworthy
[Locke]
|
12516
|
Obscure simple ideas result from poor senses, brief impressions, or poor memory
[Locke]
|
12517
|
Ideas are uncertain when they are unnamed, because too close to other ideas
[Locke]
|
12518
|
The mind cannot produce simple ideas
[Locke]
|
12519
|
Gold is supposed to have a real essence, from whence its detectable properties flow
[Locke]
|
12520
|
The best I can make of real essence is figure, size and connection of solid parts
[Locke]
|
12521
|
We can only know a thing's powers when we have combined it with many things
[Locke]
|
15988
|
The observable qualities are never the real essence, since they depend on real essence
[Locke]
|
12522
|
It is propositions which are true or false, though it is sometimes said of ideas
[Locke]
|
12523
|
If they refer to real substances, 'man' is a true idea and 'centaur' a false one
[Locke]
|
12524
|
For the correct reference of complex ideas, we can only refer to experts
[Locke]
|
2421
|
There is nothing illogical about inverted qualia
[Locke]
|
3522
|
The same object might produce violet in one mind and marigold in another
[Locke]
|
12525
|
The essence of a triangle is simple; presumably substance essences are similar
[Locke]
|
12526
|
Opposition to reason is mad
[Locke]
|
12527
|
Some ideas connect together naturally, while others connect by chance or custom
[Locke]
|
12528
|
If a man sees a friend die in a room, he associates the pain with the room
[Locke]
|
7716
|
Words were devised as signs for inner ideas, and their basic meaning is those ideas
[Locke]
|
7308
|
Words stand for the ideas in the mind of him that uses them
[Locke]
|
12305
|
Locke's essences determine the other properties, so the two will change together
[Locke, by Copi]
|
7717
|
All things that exist are particulars
[Locke]
|
7040
|
General words represent general ideas, which are abstractions from immediate circumstances
[Locke]
|
8910
|
General and universal are not real entities, but useful inventions of the mind, concerning words or ideas
[Locke]
|
15644
|
In nominal essence, Locke confuses the set of properties with the abstracted idea of them
[Eagle on Locke]
|
11155
|
Essence is the very being of any thing, whereby it is what it is
[Locke]
|
12529
|
I speak of a 'sortal' name, from the word 'sort'
[Locke]
|
15985
|
It is impossible for two things with the same real essence to differ in properties
[Locke]
|
12530
|
The less rational view of essences is that they are moulds for kinds of natural thing
[Locke]
|
13431
|
A space between three lines is both the nominal and real essence of a triangle, the source of its properties
[Locke]
|
16029
|
Locke's real and nominal essence refers back to Aristotle's real and nominal definitions
[Locke, by Jones,J-E]
|
12531
|
Nominal Essence is the abstract idea to which a name is attached
[Locke]
|
13771
|
Real essence is the constitution of the unknown parts of a body which produce its qualities
[Locke]
|
13434
|
In our ideas, the idea of essence is inseparable from the concept of a species
[Locke]
|
13433
|
Essences relate to sorting words; if you replace those with names, essences vanish
[Locke]
|
12809
|
Nothing about me is essential
[Locke]
|
16786
|
You can't distinguish individuals without the species as a standard
[Locke]
|
12532
|
Even real essence depends on a sort, since it is sorts which have the properties
[Locke]
|
12533
|
Real essences are unknown, so only the nominal essence connects things to a species
[Locke]
|
16035
|
If we based species on real essences, the individuals would be as indistinguishable as two circles
[Locke]
|
15976
|
What is the texture - the real essence - which makes substances behave in distinct ways?
[Locke]
|
13435
|
We can't categorise things by their real essences, because these are unknown
[Locke]
|
15170
|
We distinguish species by their nominal essence, not by their real essence
[Locke]
|
13436
|
There are no gaps in the continuum of nature, and everything has something closely resembling it
[Locke]
|
12534
|
We cannot know what properties are necessary to gold, unless we first know its real essence
[Locke]
|
12535
|
If we discovered real essences, we would still categorise things by the external appearance
[Locke]
|
12536
|
We sort and name substances by nominal and not by real essence
[Locke]
|
12537
|
To be a nominal essence, a complex idea must exhibit unity
[Locke]
|
12539
|
If every sort has its real essence, one horse, being many sorts, will have many essences
[Locke]
|
12538
|
Genus is a partial conception of species, and species a partial idea of individuals
[Locke]
|
16036
|
Internal constitution doesn't decide a species; should a watch contain four wheels or five?
[Locke]
|
12540
|
Artificial things like watches and pistols have distinct kinds
[Locke]
|
15974
|
The essence of whiteness in a man is nothing but the power to produce the idea of whiteness
[Locke]
|
13423
|
The schools recognised that they don't really know essences, because they couldn't coin names for them
[Locke]
|
15991
|
Since words are just conventional, we can represent our own ideas with any words we please
[Locke]
|
15978
|
I take 'matter' to be a body, excluding its extension in space and its shape
[Locke]
|
15992
|
Many individuals grouped under one name vary more than some things that have different names
[Locke]
|
12541
|
Morality can be demonstrated, because we know the real essences behind moral words
[Locke]
|
12542
|
Knowledge is just the connection or disagreement of our ideas
[Locke]
|
12543
|
Intuition gives us direct and certain knowledge of what is obvious
[Locke]
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15995
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The greatest certainty is knowing our own ideas, and that two ideas are different
[Locke]
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12544
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Our knowledge falls short of the extent of our own ideas
[Locke]
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7840
|
For all we know, an omnipotent being might have enabled material beings to think
[Locke]
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12545
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Other spirits may exceed us in knowledge, by knowing the inward constitution of things
[Locke]
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12546
|
We can't know how primary and secondary qualities connect together
[Locke]
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15996
|
We can't begin to conceive what would produce some particular experience within our minds
[Locke]
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12547
|
We know five properties of gold, but cannot use four of them to predict the fifth one
[Locke]
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15984
|
The corpuscular hypothesis is the best explanation of the necessary connection and co-existence of powers
[Locke]
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15950
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We will only understand substance when we know the necessary connections between powers and qualities
[Locke]
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12548
|
It is certain that injustice requires property, since it is a violation of the right to property
[Locke]
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12549
|
Nothing is so beautiful to the eye as truth is to the mind
[Locke]
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12550
|
If we knew the minute mechanics of hemlock, we could predict that it kills men
[Locke]
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12551
|
We are satisfied that other men have minds, from their words and actions
[Locke]
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12552
|
Thoughts moving bodies, and bodies producing thoughts, are equally unknowable
[Locke]
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15997
|
We are so far from understanding the workings of natural bodies that it is pointless to even try
[Locke]
|
15993
|
If we observe total regularity, there must be some unknown law and relationships controlling it
[Locke]
|
12553
|
Some of our ideas contain relations which we cannot conceive to be absent
[Locke]
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12554
|
Existences can only be known by experience
[Locke]
|
17735
|
Simple ideas are produced in us by external things, and they match their appearances
[Locke]
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12555
|
The constant link between whiteness and things that produce it is the basis of our knowledge
[Locke]
|
12556
|
Mathematics is just about ideas, so whether circles exist is irrelevant
[Locke]
|
10055
|
Mathematical proofs work, irrespective of whether the objects exist
[Locke]
|
12557
|
Our ideas of substance are based on mental archetypes, but these come from the world
[Locke]
|
12558
|
Truth only belongs to mental or verbal propositions
[Locke]
|
12559
|
Complex ideas are collections of qualities we attach to an unknown substratum
[Locke]
|
12560
|
We can only slightly know necessary co-existence of qualities, if they are primary
[Locke]
|
12561
|
For 'all gold is malleable' to be necessary, it must be part of gold's nominal essence
[Locke]
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12562
|
General certainty is only found in ideas
[Locke]
|
12563
|
Obviously two bodies cannot be in the same place
[Locke]
|
12564
|
I am as certain of the thing doubting, as I am of the doubt
[Locke]
|
12565
|
God has given us no innate idea of himself
[Locke]
|
12566
|
We exist, so there is Being, which requires eternal being
[Locke]
|
12567
|
It is inconceivable that unthinking matter could produce intelligence
[Locke]
|
12568
|
God assures me of the existence of external things
[Locke]
|
12569
|
Knowledge by senses is less certain than that by intuition or reason, but it is still knowledge
[Locke]
|
12570
|
The finite and dependent should obey the supreme and infinite
[Locke]
|
15977
|
Facts beyond immediate experience are assessed by agreement with known truths and observations
[Locke]
|
12571
|
If miracles aim at producing belief, it is plausible that their events are very unusual
[Locke]
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12572
|
Many people can reason well, yet can't make a syllogism
[Locke]
|
12573
|
Ad Hominem: press a man with the consequences of his own principle
[Locke]
|
19517
|
Believing without a reason may just be love of your own fantasies
[Locke]
|
12574
|
When two ideas agree in my mind, I cannot refuse to see and know it
[Locke]
|
7718
|
Universals do not exist, but are useful inventions of the mind, involving words or ideas
[Locke]
|
12812
|
Things have real essences, but we categorise them according to the ideas we receive
[Locke]
|
15990
|
Every individual thing which exists has an essence, which is its internal constitution
[Locke]
|
15994
|
If it is knowledge, it is certain; if it isn't certain, it isn't knowledge
[Locke]
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