I.
I defy any man to imagine or conceive perception without an idea, or an idea without perception.
E.
Locke's very supposition that matter & motion should exist before thought is absurd—includes a manifest contradiction.
Locke's harangue about coherent, methodical discourses amounting to nothing, apply'd to the mathematicians.
They talk of determining all the points of a curve by an equation. Wt mean they by this? Wt would they signify by the word points? Do they stick to the definition of Euclid?
S.
We think we know not the Soul, because we have no imaginable or sensible idea annex'd to that sound. This the effect of prejudice.
S.
Certainly we do not know it. This will be plain if we examine what we mean by the word knowledge. Neither doth this argue any defect in our knowledge, no more than our not knowing a contradiction.