 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
 | Alexander Campbell Fraser - Religion - 1897 - 318 pages
...consciousness] be more evident to me than my own existence [in which they are all somehow connected as mine] ? If I doubt of all other things, that very doubt makes me perceive my own existence. Experience then convinces us that we have an intuitive knowledge of our own existence, an internal,... | |
 | Charles Lorensen - 1899 - 112 pages
...because you are a being in time, and therefore not yet divine. Remember the words of Locke: 'If I doubt all other things, that very doubt makes me perceive...existence, and will not suffer me to doubt of that. ' Remember his final rational conclusion 'that there must be eternally a most powerful and most knowing... | |
 | Alexander Campbell Fraser - 1899 - 400 pages
...I think, I reason, I feel pleasure and pain: can any of these states 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. Experience then convinces us that we have an intuitive knowledge of our own existence, an internal,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1904 - 436 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... | |
 | Bible - 1905 - 820 pages
...evident to me than tny <ra-n existence (in which they are all somehow connected as mine) ? If I doubt all other things, that very doubt makes me perceive my own existence. Experience then convinces us that we have an intuitive knowledge of our own existence, an internal,... | |
 | Arthur Joseph de Sopper - Ethics - 1907 - 230 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...of the existence of the pain I feel: or if I know 1 doubt, I have as certain perception of the existence of the doubting, as of that thought which I... | |
 | Jay William Hudson - Philosophy - 1911 - 124 pages
...reason, I feel pleasure and pain; can any of these be more evident to me than my own existence? // / doubt of all other things, that very doubt makes me perceive my own existence . . . Experience then convinces us that we have an intuitive knowledge of our own existence and an... | |
 | St. George William Joseph Stock - Philosophy, English - 1912 - 246 pages
...existence. / 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...will not suffer me to doubt of that. For if I know / feel pain, it is evident I have as certain perception of my own existence, as of the existence of... | |
 | Raymond Gregory - Knowledge, Theory of - 1919 - 112 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...perceive my own existence and will not suffer me to doubt that. For if I know I feel pain, it is evident I have as certain perception of my own existence, as... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1924 - 438 pages
...the language in which he states his position recalls that of Descartes about the Cogito ergo sum : ' If I doubt of all other things, that very doubt makes me perceive my own existence.' ' Experience ', Locke concludes, ' convinces us that we have an intuitive knowledge of our own existence,... | |
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