 I feel pleasure and pain: can any of these be more evident to me, than my own existence? if I doubt of all other things, that very doubt makes me perceive my own existence, and will not suffer me to doubt of that.  The Life of John Locke - Page 130by Henry Richard Fox Bourne - 1876Full view - About this book
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1852 - 678 pages
...proof. I think, I reason, I feel pleasure ami pain ; can any of these bo more evident to mo than my own existence ? If I doubt of all other things, that...my own existence, and will not suffer me to doubt. If I know I doubt, I have as certain n perception of the thing doubting, as of that thought which I... | |
 | John Locke - 1854 - 536 pages
...existence ; I think, I reason, I feel pleasure and pain : can any of these be more evident to me than my own existence? If I doubt of all other things, that...my own existence, and will not suffer me to doubt ofthat. For if I know I feel pain, it is evident I have as certain perception of my own existence,... | |
 | William Mawdesley Best - Cross-examination - 1854 - 930 pages
...the celebrated maxim of the latter (rf) : " If I doubt of all other things," says the former (e), " that very doubt makes me perceive my own existence, and will not suffer me to doubt of that." " The scepticks," observes Sir Thomas Brown (f), " that affirmed they knew nothing, even in that opinion... | |
 | Thomas Ebenezer Webb - Idea (Philosophy) - 1857 - 214 pages
...we are. I think, I reason, I feel pleasure and pain: can any of these be more evident to me than my own existence ? If I doubt of all other things, that...existence, and will not suffer me to doubt of that" (iv. ix. 3). Locke's Doctrine of the Soul, therefore, starts from the " Gogito ergo sum" of Descartes.... | |
 | Thomas Ebenezer Webb - Idea (Philosophy) - 1857 - 218 pages
...we are. I think, I reason, I feel pleasure and pain: can any of these be more evident to me than my own existence ? If I doubt of all other things, that...my own existence, and will not suffer me to doubt ofthat" (iv. ix. 3). Locke's Doctrine of the Soul, therefore, starts from the " Cogito ergo sum" of... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1858 - 868 pages
...? If I doubt For the sake of both mind and body, therefort, we should move in a little circle, and of all other things, that very doubt makes me perceive my own existence, and will not let heaven circumscribe it for us." Mensuffer me to doubt. If I know I doubt, I tal exercise is the... | |
 | David Hume - Knowledge, Theory of - 1874 - 604 pages
...former first. ' Experience convinces us that we have an intuitive knowledge of our own existence. . . . If I know I feel pain, it is evident I have as certain perception of my own existence as of the pain I feel. If I know I doubt, I have as certain perception of the existence of the thing doubting... | |
 | David Hume - Knowledge, Theory of - 1874 - 604 pages
...former first. ' Experience convinces us that we have an intuitive knowledge of our own existence. . . . If I know I feel pain, it is evident I have as certain perception of my own existence as of the pain I feel. If I know I doubt, I have as certain perception of the existence of the thing doubting... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Literary Criticism - 1875 - 460 pages
...repeats it as self-evident, without taking the trouble to assign to Descartes the authorship of it : ' If I doubt of all other things, that very doubt makes...existence and will not suffer me to doubt of that.' Thinker after thinker has paid his tribute of admiration to the axiom ; it is called the foundation... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Bible - 1875 - 458 pages
...repeats it as self-evident, without taking the trouble to assign to Descartes the authorship of it: ' If I doubt of all other things, that very doubt makes...existence and will not suffer me to doubt of that.' Thinker after thinker has paid his tribute of admiration to the axiom; it is called the foundation... | |
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