I can discover, are the windows by which light is let into this dark room; for methinks the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly shut from light, with only some little openings left to let in external visible resemblances, or ideas of things... An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - Page 113by John Locke - 1824 - 668 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Locke - 1722 - 640 pages
...Paflages that . I can find of Knowledg to the Underftanding. Thefe alone, as far as I can difcover, are the Windows by which Light is let into this dark Room : For methinks the Underftanding is not much unlike a Clofet wholly (hut from Light, With only fome little opening left,... | |
| John Locke - 1801 - 340 pages
...paflages that I can find of knowledge to the underftanding. Thefe alone, as far as I can difcover, are the windows by which light is let into this dark room; for methinks the underftanding is not much unlike a clofet wholly fhut- from light, with only fome little opening left,... | |
| John Locke - 1801 - 950 pages
...paflages that I can find of knowledge to the underftancling. Thefe alone, as far as I can difcover, are the windows by which light is let into this dark room-, for methinks the underftanding is not much unlike a clofet wholly fhut from light, with only fome little opening left,... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1811 - 590 pages
...again, that external and internal sen" sation are the only passages that I can find of know" ledge to the understanding. These alone, as far as I -'...closet, wholly shut from light, with only " some little openings left, to let in external visible re" semblances, or ideas of things without; would the pic"... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1816 - 644 pages
...and internal sensation are the only passages " that I can find of knowledge to the understand'* ing. These alone, as far as I can discover, are " the windows...closet, wholly shut from light, with " only some little openings left, to let in external " visible resemblances, or ideas of things without. " Would the pictures... | |
| John Locke - 1819 - 518 pages
...wnich I 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,...windows by which light is let into this dark room ; for methiuks the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly shut from light, with only some little... | |
| Frederick Beasley - 1822 - 584 pages
...the passage in question. " External and internal sensation, are the only passages," says he, " that I can find, of knowledge to the understanding. These...windows by which light is let into this dark room." Methinks the Dr. did not examine his dark room with sufficient care, or he would have discovered in... | |
| John Locke - 1823 - 388 pages
...therefore cannot but confess here again, that external and internal sensation are the only passages that I can find of knowledge to the understanding. These...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,... | |
| Thomas Hancock - 1824 - 574 pages
...that, all our knowledge is founded : and from that it ultimately derives itself." Book 2. Ch. i. " Methinks, the understanding is not much unlike a closet...visible resemblances, or ideas of things without," Book 2. Ch. xii. — " The great source of most of the ideas we have, depending wholly upon our senses,... | |
| Dionysius Lardner - 1824 - 218 pages
...ideas, illustrates it in the following manner : " These alone," (sensation and reflection) " as far aa I can discover, are the windows by which light is let into this dark room ; for methinka the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly shut from light, with only some little... | |
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