For, wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy... Chambers's Edinburgh Journal - Page 591844Full view - About this book
| David Rosen - 2008 - 224 pages
...confronted by a confusion of ideas may bring to bear on them one of two faculties, wit or judgment. Wit lies "most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy" (Essay, 1 I. 11.2). Locke of course ascribes all works of art, of "entertainment and pleasantry," to... | |
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...as John Locke described in his highly influential Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690): Wit l[ies| most in the assemblage of Ideas, and putting...pleasant Pictures, and agreeable Visions in the Fancy: Judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully, one from another,... | |
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