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History of the Philosophy of Mind: Embracing the Opinions of All Writers on ... - Page 283
by Robert Blakey - 1848
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The works of John Locke. To which is added the life of the author ..., Volume 1

John Locke - 1801 - 398 pages
...understanding, as well as of determining in the will, antl of motions in the body; all which seems to be but trains of motion in the animal spirits, which once...were natural. As far as we can comprehend thinking, thus ideas seem to be produced in our minds; or if they are not, this may serve to explain their following...
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Philosophical beauties selected from the works of John Locke

John Locke - 1802 - 308 pages
...understanding, as well as of determining in the will, and of motions in the body; all which seems to be but trains of motion in the animal spirits, which once...were natural. As far as we can comprehend thinking, thus ideas seem to be produced in cur minds; or if they are not, this may serve to explain their following...
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Volume 1

John Locke - 1805 - 562 pages
...understanding, as well as of determining in the will, and of motions in the body; all which seems to be but trains of motion in the animal spirits, which once...were natural. As far as we can comprehend thinking, thus ideas seem to be produced in our minds; or if they are not, this may serve to explain their following...
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Volume 1

John Locke - 1805 - 554 pages
...underunderstanding, as well a* of determining in the will, and of motions in the body; all which seems to be but trains of motion in the animal spirits, which once...were, natural. As far as we can comprehend thinking, thus ideas seern to he produced in our minds ; or if they are not, this may serve to explain their...
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An Analytical Abridgment of Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding

John Locke - 1808 - 346 pages
...spirits, which when , once set a going continue in the same track they have been used to, till the motion becomes easy, and as it were natural. As far as we can comprehend Thinking, thus ideas seem to be produced in our minds ; or if not, this may serve to explain their following...
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Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volume 1

Dugald Stewart - 1814 - 528 pages
...contained in the two following passages from Locke and Newton .' " Habits," (says Locke,) " seem to be but trains of motion. *' in the animal spirits, which,...once set a-going, continue " in the same steps they had been used to, which, by of" ten treading, are worn into a smooth path." And Newton himself has...
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An essay concerning human understanding. Also, extr. from the author's works ...

John Locke - 1819 - 516 pages
...understanding, as well as of determimng in the will, and of motions in the body ; all which seerns to be but trains of motion in the animal spirits, which once...motion in it becomes easy, and as it were natural. As tar as we can comprehend thinking, thus ideas seem to be produced in our minds; or if they are not,...
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An essay concerning human understanding. Also, extr. from the author's works ...

John Locke - 1819 - 518 pages
...understanding, as well as of determining in the will, and of motions in the body ; all which seems to be but trains of motion in the animal spirits, which once...in the same steps they have been used to.: which, bv often treading, are worn into a smooth path, and the motion in it becomes easy, and as it were natural....
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Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volume 1

Dugald Stewart - 1821 - 382 pages
...of motion, in the " animal spirits, which, once set a-going, continue in the same steps " they had been used to, which, by often treading, are worn into a " smooth path." And Newton himself has proposed the following query, concerning the manner in which the mind perceives...
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The Works of Thomas Reid; with an Account of His Life and Writings, Volume 1

Thomas Reid - 1822 - 432 pages
...part of our constitution as is contained in the following sentence of Locke ? " Habits seem to be but trains of motion in the animal spirits, which, once...which by often treading are worn into a smooth path." In like manner, the laws which regulate the connexion between the mind and our external organs, in...
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