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 variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from EXPERIENCE.... A Student's History of Philosophy - Page 333by Arthur Kenyon Rogers - 1907 - 511 pagesFull view - About this book
| Karl Heinrich Schaible - 1860 - 168 pages
...COLLEGE OF PBECEPTORfl. "Our Observation, employed either about external sensible Objects, or about th* internal Operations of our Minds, perceived and reflected on by ourselves, is that which iupplies f our Understandings with all the Materialise/ Thinking:'—LOCKE, an Essay conoerinng Human... | |
| 1865 - 550 pages
...two sources of all knowledge. " Our observation," he says, " employed either about external sensible, or about the internal operations of our minds perceived...ourselves, is that which supplies our understandings with materials of thinking." The latter of these two sources, here somewhat vaguely announced, was never... | |
| 1867 - 510 pages
...views. Locke's great principle was that "all ideas come from sensation and reflection." He says — " Our observation, employed either about external sensible...understandings with all the materials of thinking."* There is much more indicated here than " impressing the intelligence in some specific way." Reflection,... | |
| 1871 - 630 pages
...all the materials of reason anil knowledge ? To this I answer in one word, from experience ; on that all our knowledge is founded, and from that it ultimately derives itself." — Loclic. CONCOMITANT. See ACCOMPANI MENT. CONCORD. HARMONY. UNISON. CONCERT. CONCORD (from con.... | |
| John Campbell Shairp - 1872 - 370 pages
...sources of all knowledge. " Our observation," he says, " employed either about external sensible things, or about the internal operations of our minds perceived...ourselves, is that which supplies our understandings with materials of thinking." The latter of these two sources, here somewhat vaguely announced, was never... | |
| John Bascom - 1874 - 348 pages
...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 it ultimately...sensible objects, or about the internal operations of our mind, perceived and reflected on by ourselves, is that which supplies our understandings with all the... | |
| John Bascom - 1893 - 458 pages
...from experience ; in that all our knowledge is founded, and from that it ultimately derives 'tself. Our observation, employed either about external, sensible objects, or about the internal operations of our mind, perceived and reflected on by ourselves, is that which supplies our understandings with all the... | |
| Julia Duhring - 1874 - 376 pages
...asks John Locke. " Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge ? From experience : in that all our knowledge is founded, and from that it ultimately derives itself." Of Joseph Priestley we are told that " he was a follower of the truth who delighted in the chase, and... | |
| Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard - 1877 - 916 pages
...derives itself." Again he says — and the passage is a fundamental postulate of this philosophy — " Our observation, employed either about external, sensible objects, or about the internal operations of our own minds, perceived and reflected on by ourselves, is that which supplies our understandings with... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1877 - 504 pages
...it all the materials of reason and knowledge ? To this I answer, in a word, from experience. In that all our knowledge is founded, and from that it ultimately derives itself." 1 In what sense this celebrated maxim ought to be understood, I shall endeavour to shew more particularly,... | |
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