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" ... personal identity. 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... "
Castle Rackrent. Essay on Irish bulls. The modern Griselda. v. II. Belinda ... - Page 121
by Maria Edgeworth - 1825
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Essay on Irish Bulls

Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Maria Edgeworth - 1803 - 322 pages
...they understand what is meant by the common 'words / or me ,• but the able metaphysician well knows how to prove to our satisfaction, that we know nothing of the matter. According to Locke, personal identity depends on consciousness—It is but doing justice to his authority...
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Essay on Irish bulls, by R. L. and M. Edgeworth

Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1808 - 302 pages
...— '* Ah madame!" reprit le eomplimenteur BaiYement— * TOW; ' £tes bien la preuve du contrake/' the presumptuous ignorance to fancy, that they understand...the identity of substance, but in the identity of consciousness, wherein Socrates and the present mayor of Quinborough agree, they are the same person...
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Works, Volume 2

Maria Edgeworth - 1824 - 408 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...the identity of substance, but in the identity of consciousness, wherein Socrates and the present mayor of Quinborough agree, they are the same person...
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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...
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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....
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Castle Rackrent: And Irish Bulls

Maria Edgeworth - 1832 - 354 pages
...be the best bull that he ever heard. " I hate that woman," said a gentleman, looking at one who had been his nurse; " I hate that woman, for she changed...the identity of substance, but in the identity of consciousness, wherein Socrates and the present mayor of Quinborough agree they are the same person...
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Castle Rackrent ; An Essay on Irish Bulls ; an Essay on the Noble Science of ...

Maria Edgeworth - 1832 - 344 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...the identity of substance, but in the identity of consciousness, wherein Socrates and the present mayor of Quinborough agree they are the same person...
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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: Castle Rackrent. An essay on Irish bulls. An essay on the ...

Maria Edgeworth - 1835 - 450 pages
...may have the presumptuous ignorance to fancy that they understand what is meant by the common words I or me ; but the able metaphysician knows better than...the identity of substance, but in the identity of consciousness, wherein Socrates and the present Mayor of Quinborough agree they are the same person:...
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Castle Rackrent. An essay on Irish bulls. An essay on the noble science of ...

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...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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