 | David Hume - 1890 - 598 pages
...has a special chapter on the ' reality of human knowledge,' where he puts the problem thus : — ' It is evident the mind knows not things immediately, but only by {.|ie intervention of the ideas it has of them. Our knowledge therefore is real only so far as there... | |
 | John Locke - 1891 - 176 pages
...wherever we are sure those ideas agree with the reality of things, there is certain real knowledge. It is evident the mind knows not things immediately,...ideas it has of them. Our knowledge therefore is real only_so_£ar as. there is a conforrnity__between_aux ideas. _and the reality of things. But what shall... | |
 | 1891 - 646 pages
...mind ana body with Leibniz's doctrine of a preestablished harmony. 3. " It is evident," said Locke, " the mind knows not things immediately, but only by...has of them. Our knowledge therefore is real, only so far as there is a conformity between our ideas and the reality of things. But what shall be here... | |
 | James McCosh - 1891 - 108 pages
...he could find, on his theory of knowledge, an actuality exA ternal to the mind. He tells us : " 'T is evident the mind knows not things immediately,...but only by the intervention of the ideas it has of them."1 His whole account of human understanding proceeds on this principle. He fondly held that the... | |
 | John Locke - 1892 - 572 pages
...believe it will appear that all the certainty of general truths a man has lies in nothing else. 3. It is evident the mind knows not things immediately,...has of them. Our knowledge, therefore, is real only so far as there is a conformity between our ideas and the reality of things. But what shall be here... | |
 | John Locke - 1894 - 516 pages
...believe it will appear that all the certainty of general truths a man has lies in nothing else 3. 3. It is evident the mind knows not things immediately,...only by the intervention of the ideas it has of them 4. Our knowledge, therefore, is real only so far as there is a conformity between our ideas and the... | |
 | Stewart Dingwall Fordyce Salmond - 1894 - 472 pages
...and German philosophy. How " there is a conformity between our ideas and the reality of things " if " it is evident the mind knows not things immediately,...by the intervention of the ideas it has of them," is merely a question " that seems not to want difficulty." His answer is that simple ideas must have... | |
 | John Phelps Fruit - 1895 - 62 pages
...the secret hid within the essence of the things themselves. Locke further says : It is evident that the mind knows not things immediately, but only by...has of them. Our knowledge, therefore, is real only in so far as there is a conformity between our ideas and the reality of things. But what shall here... | |
 | James Mark Baldwin - 1901 - 684 pages
...which it alone does or can contemplate' {Essay, IV. i. i). " ' It is evident/ he says elsewhere, ' the mind knows not things immediately, but only by the intervention of the ideas it has of them.' This may be said to be the common presupposition of modern philosophy from Descartes to Hume. It is... | |
 | Paul Janet, Gabriel Séailles - 1902 - 432 pages
...escape our observation " (Ibid. Ch. V). As regards what we really know by the senses, Locke says : " It is evident the mind knows not things immediately,...has of them. Our knowledge therefore is real only so far as there is a conformity between our ideas and the reality of things" (Bk. II, Ch. IV). How... | |
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It is evident the mind knows not things immediately, but only by the intervention of the ideas it has of them. Our knowledge therefore is real only so far as there is a conformity between our ideas and the reality of things. 
