“ Men generally content themselves with some few sensible obvious qualities; and often, if not always, leave out others as material and as firmly united as those that they take. ”
John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689). copy citation
| Author | John Locke |
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| Source | An Essay Concerning Human Understanding |
| Topic | quality obvious |
| Date | 1689 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/10616/pg10616-images.html |
Context
“Secondly, Though the mind of man, in making its complex ideas of substances, never puts any together that do not really, or are not supposed to, co-exist; and so it truly borrows that union from nature: yet the number it combines depends upon the various care, industry, or fancy of him that makes it. Men generally content themselves with some few sensible obvious qualities; and often, if not always, leave out others as material and as firmly united as those that they take. Of sensible substances there are two sorts: one of organized bodies, which are propagated by seed; and in these the SHAPE is that which to us is the leading quality, and most characteristical part, that determines the species.”
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