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" Philosophers will not perhaps be so ready as his lordship has been to call this a blunder of the first magnitude. Those who have never been initiated into the mysteries of metaphysics may have the presumptuous ignorance to fancy that they understand what... "
Essay on Irish bulls, by R. L. and M. Edgeworth - Page 17
by Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1808 - 280 pages
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Works, Volume 2

Maria Edgeworth - English literature - 1824 - 402 pages
...have the presumptuous ignorance to fancy, that they understand what is meant by the common words / or me ; but the able metaphysician knows better than...consciousness, wherein Socrates and the present mayor of Quiuborough agree, they are the same person ; if the same Socrates, sleeping and waking, do not partake...
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Castle Rackrent. Essay on Irish bulls. The modern Griselda. v. II. Belinda ...

Maria Edgeworth - 1825 - 370 pages
...the first magnitude. Those who have never been initiated into the mysteries of metaphysics may have the presumptuous ignorance to fancy that they understand...the identity of substance, but in the identity of con* On faisoit compliment a madame Denis de la fagon dont elle venoit de jouer Zaire. " II faudroit,"...
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Epitome of English literature; or, A concentration of the matter ..., Volume 3

English literature - 1831 - 536 pages
...identity is founded all the justice of reward and punishment ; and this may show us that personal identity consists not in the identity of substance, but in the identity of consciousness; wherein if Socrates and the present mayor of Queenborough agree, they are the same person. If Socrates waking...
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Locke's Essay on the human understanding, condensed under the ...

John Locke - 1831 - 458 pages
...identity is founded all the justice of reward and punishment ; and this may show us that personal identity consists not in the identity of substance, but in the identity of consciousness ; wherein if Socrates and the present mayor of Queenborough agree, they are the same person. If Socrates waking...
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Tales and Novels, Volumes 1-2

Maria Edgeworth - 1834 - 464 pages
...may have the presumptuous ignorance to fancy that they understand what is meant by the common words / or me; but the able metaphysician knows better than...satisfaction, that we know nothing of the matter. " I hate that woman," said a gentleman, looking at one who had been his nurse, " I hate that woman,...
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Tales and Novels, Volumes 1-2

Maria Edgeworth - English fiction - 1840 - 454 pages
...may have the presumptuous ignorance to fancy that they understand what is meant by the common words / or me ; but the able metaphysician knows better than...the identity of substance, but in the identity of consciousr ness, wherein Socrates and the present Mayor of Quinborough agree they are the same person...
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Tales and Novels, Volume 4

Maria Edgeworth - 1848 - 460 pages
...have the presumptuous ignorance to fancy that they understand what is meant by the common words /, or me ; but the able metaphysician knows better than...consciousness, wherein Socrates and the present mayor of Queenborough agree they are the same person : if the same Socrates, sleeping and waking, do not partake...
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Castle Rackrent. An essay on Irish bulls. An essay on the noble science of ...

Maria Edgeworth - English fiction - 1848 - 460 pages
...have the presumptuous ignorance to fancy that they understand what is meant by the common words /, or me ; but the able metaphysician knows better than...Locke, " consists not in the identity of substance, hut in the identity of consciousness, wherein Socrates and the present mayor of Queenborough agree...
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Leibniz's New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding: A Critical Exposition

John Dewey - Knowledge, Theory of - 1888 - 302 pages
...consciousness that makes a man be himself to himself, personal identity depends on that only." It " consists not in the identity of substance, but in the identity of consciousness." It will be noticed that Locke uses the notion of identity which he has already established to explain...
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The Human and Its Relation to the Divine ...

Theodore Francis Wright - Ego (Psychology) - 1892 - 284 pages
...strong empirical British mind, and it took on at once a fresh interest. Locke said, "Personal identity consists not in the identity of substance, but in the identity of consciousness. Consciousness, as far as ever it can be extended, should it be to ages past, unites existences and...
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