 Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless...  The Works of Dugald Stewart: Philosophical essays - Sida 125efter Dugald Stewart - 1829Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | David Nasmith - 1873 - 552 sidor
...ideas we have ; thirdly, want of tracing and examining our ideas.' ' Let us suppose the mind tobe.as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas ; how comes it 1 Human Understanding, Book iv., ch. 3, § 22. B to be furnished ? Whence comes it by that vast store... | |
 | John Bascom - 1893 - 458 sidor
...stopping to rechallenge his premises. We give his opinion in his own words : " Let us, then, suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all...it to be furnished ? Whence comes it by that vast storehouse, which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it, with an almost endless variety... | |
 | Robert Stodart Wyld - 1875 - 590 sidor
...it receives the first impressions of sense, to a sheet of white paper. " Let us suppose," says he, " the mind to be as we say, white paper, void of all...Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge ? To this I answer in one word, from experience" On other occasions Locke compares the mind to a dark... | |
 | 1876 - 352 sidor
...in their very firat being. This opinion I have, at large, examined already. — Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; ho w comes it to be furnished? — Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1877 - 504 sidor
...comments. My reason for saying so, I shall endeavour to explain as clearly and concisely as I can. " Let us suppose," says Locke, " the mind to be, as...void of all characters, without any ideas: How comes ft to be furnished ? Whence comes it by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy of man has... | |
 | Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard - 1877 - 916 sidor
...Fortunately for us, the author's positions can be given concisely almost in his own words : " Let us suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all character?, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished ? Whence has it all tho materials of reason... | |
 | Robert Cleary - 1878 - 240 sidor
...to the present case. If we turn to Book II., chap. i., sect. 2, we read thus : " Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all...characters, without any ideas ; how comes it to be furnished ?" Locke in this passage never denies that the mind may be possessed of certain inherent properties... | |
 | John Locke - 1879 - 722 sidor
...from sensation or reflection. — Let us then suppose the mind to he, as we eay. white paper, voiil of all characters, without any ideas ; how comes it...has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, From experience : in that all oar know ledge is. founded, and from that~it... | |
 | Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 sidor
...the mind ; for which I shall appeal to every one's observation and experience. t. Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all...Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge ? To this I answer, in one word, from experience : in that all our knowledge is founded, and from that... | |
 | Thomas Fowler - 1880 - 222 sidor
...^Eschylus, he compares the mind to " white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas," and then asks: [^Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy...has it all the materials of Reason and Knowledge? To" this I answer in one word, from Experience: In that all our knowledge is founded; and from that... | |
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