 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
 | Henry G. van Leeuwen - History - 1970 - 188 pages
...fact that conscious experience occurs that one knows he exists: "For I know if I feel pain, it is as evident I have as certain perception of my own existence, as of the pain I feel: or if I know I doubt, I have as certain perception of the thing doubting, as of that which... | |
 | Thomas Reid, William Hamilton, Harry M. Bracken, Thomas Reid, Sir William Hamilton - Knowledge, Theory of - 1094 pages
...for it is applying to this truth the very definition of a first principle. He adds, that, if I doubt, that very doubt makes me perceive my own existence, and will not suffer me to doubt of that. If I feel pain, I have as certain perception of my existence as of the pain I feel. Here we have two... | |
 | 216 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 " Cogito ergo sum" of Descartes.... | |
 | Ronald Hoffman, Mechal Sobel, Fredrika J. Teute - History - 1997 - 488 pages
...corroborated John Locke's philosophical position that pain was so basic as to be a test of human existence: "For if I know I feel pain, it is evident I have as...my own existence, as of the existence of the pain I feel."54 Early Americans would have been just as happy, no doubt, to substitute different evidence... | |
 | Peter Baumanns - Philosophy - 1997 - 924 pages
...„For if I know Ifeel Pain, it is evident, I have äs certain a Perception of my own Existence, äs of the Existence of the Pain I feel: Or if I know I doubt, I have äs certain a Perception of the Existence of the thing doubting, äs of that Thought, which I call... | |
 | Kathleen Virginia Wider - Consciousness - 1997 - 224 pages
...accompany all one's thinking is consciousness of oneself as well as consciousness of one's mental activity. For if I know I feel Pain, it is evident, I have as certain a Perception of my own Existence, as of the Existence of the Pain I feel: Or if I know / doubt, I have... | |
 | Daniel Garber, Michael Ayers - Philosophy - 1998 - 992 pages
...toward it.'126 And so he agreed with Descartes that we have a noninferential, intuitive knowledge of our own existence: 'If I doubt of all other Things, that...my own Existence, and will not suffer me to doubt that. ... Or if I know I doubt, I have as certain a Perception of the Existence of the thing doubting,... | |
 | Frederick Copleston - Philosophy - 1999 - 452 pages
...•Ibid. * E., 4, 3, 18; u, p. 207. •£., 4, 3, 21; n, p. 212. it neither needs nor is capable of proof. 'If I doubt of all other things, that very doubt makes...my own existence and will not suffer me to doubt of that.'1 As we have seen in the last chapter, Locke does not mean that I have intuitive certainty of... | |
 | Frederick Copleston - Philosophy - 2003 - 452 pages
...«£., 4, 3, 18; n, p. 207. •£., 4, 3, 21; II, p. 212. it neither needs nor is capable of proof. 'If I doubt of all other things, that very doubt makes...my own existence and will not suffer me to doubt of that.'1 As we have seen in the last chapter, Locke does not mean that I have intuitive certainty of... | |
 | Roy Porter - Body and soul in literature - 2004 - 600 pages
...self as he portrayed it. 'For if I know I feel Pain' he insisted, 'it is evident, I have as certain a Perception of my own Existence, as of the Existence of the Pain I feel. . . . Experience then convinces us, that we have an intuitive Knowledge of our own Existence.' Far... | |
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