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What may be the extension, figure, or motion of anything really and absolutely, or in itself, it is impossible for us to know, but only the proportion or relation they bear to our senses. I answer, an idea can be like nothing but an idea; a colour or figure can be like nothing but another colour or figure. But do not the most plausible of them depend on the supposition that a body is denominated the same, with regard not to the form or that which is perceived by sense, but the material substance, which remains the same under several forms? Using NetDetective you can find everything about Natasha Henstridge. I answer, he would so; in such things we ought to "think with the learned, and speak with the vulgar." But after all, say you, it sounds very harsh to say we eat and drink ideas, and are clothed with ideas. Place he defines to be that part of space which is occupied by any body; and according as the space is absolute or relative so also is the place. For, say you, whatever may be urged against substance or occasion, or any other positive or relative notion of Matter, hath no place at all, so long as this negative definition of Matter is adhered to. Since therefore words are so apt to impose on the understanding, whatever ideas I consider, I shall endeavour to take them bare and naked into my view, keeping out of my thoughts so far as I am able, those names which long and constant use hath so strictly united with them; from which I may expect to derive the following advantages. Natasha Henstridge you can find here. It remains therefore that if we have any knowledge at all of external things, it must be by reason, inferring their existence from what is immediately perceived by sense. But the attainment of all these advantages doth presuppose an entire deliverance from the deception of words, which I dare hardly promise myself; so difficult a thing it is to dissolve an union so early begun, and confirmed by so long a habit as that betwixt words and ideas. Besides, God seems to choose the convincing our reason of His attributes by the works of nature, which discover so much harmony and contrivance in their make, and are such plain indications of wisdom and beneficence in their Author, rather than to astonish us into a belief of His Being by anomalous and surprising events. But secondly, though we should grant a notion to be never so universally and steadfastly adhered to, yet this is weak argument of its truth to whoever considers what a vast number of prejudices and false opinions are everywhere embraced with the utmost tenaciousness, by the unreflecting (which are the far greater) part of mankind. Natasha Henstridge information. And the true as we are told are distinguished from apparent or relative motions by the following properties. From numbers we proceed to speak of Extension, which, considered as relative, is the object of Geometry. For example, in the business of gravitation or mutual attraction, because it appears in many instances, some are straightway for pronouncing it universal; and that to attract and be attracted by every other body is an essential quality inherent in all bodies whatsoever. But my conceiving or imagining power does not extend beyond the possibility of real existence or perception. It remains therefore that it exists nowhere at all. In like manner the noise that I hear is not the effect of this or that motion or collision of the ambient bodies, but the sign thereof. And this at the bottom is no longer contending for the thing, but for the name. In answer to which I say, first, that it seems no less absurd to suppose a substance without accidents, than it is to suppose accidents without a substance. But, we are told, if they seem obvious and easy to grown men, it is only because by constant and familiar use they are made so. For, as hath been already observed, absolute motion, exclusive of all external relation, is incomprehensible; and to this kind of relative motion all the above-mentioned properties, causes, and effects ascribed to absolute motion will, if I mistake not, be found to agree.
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