 | William Ritchie Sorley - 1920 - 418 pages
...and, at the outset, he is considered alone, as an individual thing played upon by external forces; "for there is no conception in a man's mind which...by parts, been begotten upon the organs of sense." Diverse external motions produce diverse motions in us; and, in reality, there is nothing else; "but... | |
 | John Mackinnon Robertson - 1920 - 494 pages
...incoherent. He is far from being consistent in his materialism. At the outset of LEVIATHAN he writes that there is " no conception in a man's mind which hath...by parts, been begotten upon the organs of sense." Later, discussing " the virtues commonly called intellectual," he writes : " These virtues are of two... | |
 | Oswald Fred Boucke - 1921 - 366 pages
...after earlier essays in psychology, he informs us: "The original of them [that is, of our thoughts] all is that which we call sense; for there is no conception...of sense. The rest are derived from that original." 1 "To know the natural cause of sense, is not very necessary to the business now in hand; and I have... | |
 | Howard Crosby Warren - 1921 - 360 pages
...the ' cognitive powers ' are thus brought into relation, directly or indirectly, with sensation. " There is no conception in a man's mind which hath...by parts, been begotten upon the organs of sense." 9 The succession of experiences remains to be accounted 1 ' Human Nature,' ch. 3. 2 Ibid. 3 Ibid. *... | |
 | Ernst von Aster - 1921 - 654 pages
...ears, and other parts of a man 's body, and by diversity of working produceth diversity of appearances. The original of them all is that which we call sense, for there is no conception in a man 's mind, which hath not at first, totally or by parts, been begotten upon the Organs of sense.... | |
 | Art Berman - 1988 - 348 pages
...as well ("Objections," discussed in Stephen 33). All thoughts originate in experience, in sensation: "for there is no conception in a man's mind, which hath not first . . . been begotten upon the organs of sense" (Leviathan [1651] II). Since nothing more than... | |
 | Maria Alicia Amadei-Pulice - 1990 - 276 pages
...diversity of working produceth diversity of appearances. The original of them all is that which we cali sense, (for there is no conception in a man's mind...the organs of sense). The rest are derived from that original.3 La importancia que Hobbes le asigna a los sentidos en la formación de las ideas es sorprendentemente... | |
 | Aryeh Botwinick - 2010 - 279 pages
...affirmations."84 To the extent that one assigns priority to Hobbes's nominalism over his empiricism ("There is no conception in a man's mind, which hath...not at first, totally, or by parts, been begotten by the organs of sense. The rest are derived from the original")85 so that particular sense impressions... | |
 | James W. Cornman, Keith Lehrer, George Sotiros Pappas - 1992 - 396 pages
...sense, which he claims is the source of all of a person's thoughts, imaginings, dreams and remembrances, "for there is no conception in a man's mind, which...the organs of sense. The rest are derived from that original."17 His materialism becomes clear when he says that sense is "some internal motion in the... | |
 | Edwin Webb - 1992 - 184 pages
...recognition made three centuries previously by Thomas Hobbes. In Leviathan (1651) Hobbes had written: 'There is no conception in a man's mind, which hath...by parts, been begotten upon the organs of sense.' Products of the imagination, the reminder serves to tell us, are in this way composited out of elements... | |
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The original of them all is that which we call 'sense,' for there is no conception in a man's mind which hath not at first, totally or by parts, been begotten upon the organs of sense. 
