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" A person is a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing in different times and places. Locke. "
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A Series of Lectures upon Locke's Essay

Dionysius Lardner - 1824 - 218 pages
...successively changed by repairs. 4. Personal identity consists in consciousness. The word " person" means, " a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as the same thinking thing in different times and places." This being Locke's definition of the word person,...
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Substance of a discourse on the doctrine of the Trinity in unity

Robert Harkness Carne - Sermons, English - 1825 - 110 pages
...dark age, the celebrated Locke, is tbis; " a person is, a thinking \ baa reason and reftectvoTv, Xr,r itself as itself, the same thinking thing in different times and places". Hence personalityis not strictly applicable to the beast, whict* is said to have no understanding....
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A review of the doctrine of personal identity, by an old ex-scholar of ...

Thomas Wallace (LL.D.) - 1827 - 132 pages
...we must consider what person " stands for—which I think is a thinking intelli" gent being—that has reason and reflection, and " can consider itself...thinking " thing, in different times and places." Now, the result of this definition must be, that in Locke's meaning person means mind; or if by the...
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The Spectator: Corrected from the Originals, Volume 8

1827 - 422 pages
...lights, in man or beast. DRYDEN. Mr. Locke, after having premised that the word person properly signifies a thinking intelligent being that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, concludes, that it is consciousness alone, and not an identity of substance, which makes this personal...
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An essay concerning human understanding. To which are now first ..., Volume 2

John Locke - 1828 - 436 pages
...Personal personal identity consists, we must con- identity sider what person stands for; which, I think, is a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and...same thinking thing in different times and places; which it does only by that consciousness which is inseparable from thinking, and as it seems to me...
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: To which are Now First ..., Volume 2

John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1828 - 424 pages
...Personal personal identity consists, we must con- identity sider what person stands for; which, I think, is a thinking intelligent being, that has. reason...same thinking thing in different times and places; which it does only by that consciousness which is inseparable from thinking, and as it seems to me...
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An essay concerning human understanding. To which are now first ..., Volume 3

John Locke - 1828 - 422 pages
...much as man. In which popular sense Mr. Locke manifestly takes the word, when he says, it " stands for a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and...and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking being, in different times and places." B. 2. c. 27. § 9. But when the term is used more accurately...
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: To which are Now First ..., Volume 3

John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1828 - 432 pages
...much as man. In which popular sense Mr. Locke manifestly takes the word, when he says, it " stands for a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and...and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking being, in different times and places." B. 2. c. 27- § 9- But when the term is used more accurately...
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Lectures on the philosophy of the human mind

Thomas Brown - Philosophy - 1833 - 800 pages
...says, " wherein personal identity consists, we must consider what person stands for ; which, I think, is a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and...same thinking thing, in different times and places, which it does only by that consciousness which is inseparable from thinking."* Having once given this...
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1836 - 590 pages
...to find wherein personal identity consists, we must consider what person stands for; which, I think, is a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and...same thinking thing in different times and places; which it does only by that consciousness which is inseparable from thinking, and, as it seems to me,...
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