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Of Simple Ideas of both Sensation and Reflection An essay concerning human understanding |  |
8. Idea of power.
Power also is another of those simple ideas which we receive from sensation and reflection. For, observing in ourselves that we do and can think, and that we can at pleasure move several parts of our bodies which were at rest; the effects, also, that natural bodies are able to produce in one another, occurring every moment to our senses,--we both these ways get the idea of power.
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Of Simple Ideas of both Sensation and Reflection An essay concerning human understanding | |