 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
 | August De Fries - 1879 - 92 pages
...proof. — I think, I reason, l fccl pleasurc and pain; can any of these be more evident to me, then my own existence? If I doubt of all other things, that very doubt makos me perceive my own existence, and will not suffer me to doubt ofthat; etc. — Ibid. eh. 10 §... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Bible - 1883 - 396 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 - 1883 - 394 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 - 1884 - 280 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 - 1884 - 280 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... | |
 | George Berkeley, Alexander Campbell Fraser - Philosophy, British - 1884 - 436 pages
...own existence— 1 See Essay, b. I. ch. i. § 2. an internal, infallible perception that we are. ' If I doubt of all other things, that very doubt makes...own existence, and will not suffer me to doubt of that.'—(b) The existence of God or Eternal Mind he found to issue as a necessary consequence of a... | |
 | George Berkeley, Alexander Campbell Fraser - Philosophy, British - 1884 - 440 pages
...xvii an internal, infallible perception that we are. ' If I doubt of all other things, that very donbt makes me perceive my own existence, and will not suffer me to doubt of that.' — (6) The existence of God or Eternal Mind he found to issue as a necessary consequence of a universal... | |
 | Thomas Hill Green - Philosophy - 1885 - 580 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 T know I doubt, I have as certain perception of the existence of the thing doubting... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1885 - 1120 pages
...pleasure and pain; can any of these be more evident to me than my own existence? If I doubt of all these things, that very doubt makes me perceive my own existence, and will not suffer me to doubt. If I know I doubt, I have as certain a perception of the thing doubting, as of that thought which I... | |
 | Thomas Case - Cognition - 1888 - 442 pages
...existence. I think, I reason, I feel pleasure or pain : can any of these be more evident to me than my own existence ? If I doubt of all other things, that...pain, it is evident I have as certain perception of rny own existence as of the existence of the pain I feel : or if I know I doubt, I have as certain... | |
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