 For methinks the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly shut from light, with only some little opening left to let in external visible resemblances or ideas of things without: would the pictures coming into such a dark room but stay there, and...  Literary Remains of the Late William Hazlitt - Page 237by William Hazlitt - 1836 - 315 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Locke - 1805 - 562 pages
...dark room but stay there, and lie so orderly Darkroom §• ^7- I pretend not to teach, but to inas to be found upon occasion, it would very much Resemble...reference to all objects of sight, and the ideas of them. These are my guesses concerning the means whereby the understanding comes to have and retain simpld... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1811 - 590 pages
...ideas, of things without: Would the "•pictures coming into such a dark room but stay there, and -'tie so orderly as to be found upon occasion, it would..."to all objects of sight, and the ideas of them." — In a different part of his Essay, he has crowded into a few sentences, a variety of such theories;... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1814 - 528 pages
...and lie so orderly as to be found " upon occasion, it would very much resemble the under'," standing of a man, in reference to all objects of sight, " and the ideas of them."* • " Plato's subterranean cave, and Mr. Locke's dark clo" set, may be applied with ease to all the... | |
 | John Locke - 1815 - 454 pages
...have laid, and to correspond with this method in all the parts and degrees thereof. $17. Dark room. I pretend not to teach, but to inquire, and therefore...reference to all objects of sight, and the ideas of them. These are my guesses concerning the means whereby the understanding comes to have and retain simple'ideas,... | |
 | John Locke - 1816 - 1048 pages
...I pretend not to teach, but to inDark room. . \ , c A , , r quire, and therefore cannot but coniess here again, that external and internal sensation are...reference to all objects of sight, and the ideas of them. These are my guesses concerning the means whereby the understanding comes to have and retain simple... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1816 - 644 pages
...and lie so orderly as to be found upon oc" casion, it would very much resemble the under" standing of a man, in reference to all objects of " sight, and the ideas of them." — In a different part of his Essay, he has crowded into a few sentences a variety of such theories... | |
 | John Locke - 1817 - 556 pages
...resemblances, or ideas of things without : would the pictures coming iuto such a dark room but stay there, ami lie so orderly as to be found upon occasion, it would...reference to all objects of sight, and the ideas of them. These are my guesses concerning the means whereby the understanding comes to have and retain simple... | |
 | John Locke - 1819 - 518 pages
...as far as I can discover, are the windows by which light is let into this dark room ; for methiuks the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly...reference to all objects of .sight, and the ideas of them. These are my gu- «ses concerning the means whereby the understanding comes to have and retain simple... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1821 - 382 pages
...understanding is not much un" like a closet, wholly shut from light, with only some little open" ing left, to let in external visible resemblances or ideas...to " all objects of sight, and the ideas of them. "J " Plato's subterranean cave, and Mr. Locke's dark closet, may be " applied with ease to all the... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1822 - 432 pages
...perceiving external objects, by a similitude very much resembling that of the cave. " Methinks, says he, the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly...reference to all objects of sight, and the ideas of them." Plato's subterranean cave, and Mr. Locke's dark closet, may be applied with ease to all the systems... | |
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