26 ordspråk av Thomas Reid

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 It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances.

 might not be an appropriate place for him to stay.

 The idea is in the mind itself, and can have no existence but in a mind that thinks; but the remote or mediate object may be something external, as the sun or moon; it may be something past or future; it may be something which never existed.

 The laws of nature are the rules according to which the effects are produced; but there must be a cause which operates according to these rules.

 The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.

 The vulgar allow that this expression implies a mind that thinks, an act of that mind which we call thinking, and an object about which we think. But, besides these three, the philosopher conceives that there is a fourth-to wit, the idea, which is the immediate object.

 There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

 This is the original mosaic tile and marble.

 This is the philosophical meaning of the word idea; and we may observe that this meaning of that word is built upon a philosophical opinion: for, if philosophers had not believed that there are such immediate objects of all our thoughts in the mind, they would never have used the word idea to express them.

 We're all crossing our fingers for her.

 When, therefore, in common language, we speak of having an idea of anything, we mean no more by that expression, but thinking of it.


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