...Fähigkeit zur Verbindung von Ideen nützlich sein (Essay 2,1i,2 = Locke (1979) 8.156): «For Wit lying most in the assemblage of Ideas, and putting those...pleasant Pictures, and agreeable Visions in the Fancy: Judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully, one from another,...

...and emphasize significant qualifications of Locke's account of wit. Locke had said that wit consists "in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy." 51 In the 1704 note Addison quotes Locke's observation and says, "Thus does True wit, as this incomparable...

...fancy, and Locke declaims its inferiority when comparing it to the results of judgment: For Wit lying most in the assemblage of Ideas, and putting those...make up pleasant Pictures, and agreeable Visions in Fancy: Judoment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully, one from another,...

...Concerning Human Understanding.^ 7 At first, this seems a distinction of great clarity and tidiness. Wit, says Locke, lies most in the assemblage of Ideas,...pleasant Pictures, and agreeable Visions in the Fancy: Judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully, one from another,...

...on the difference between wit and judgement, 'wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and puiting those together with quickness and variety, wherein...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy: judgement, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully, one from another,...

...of Wit, and prompt Memories, have not always the clearest Judgment, or deepest Reason. For Wit lying most in the assemblage of Ideas, and putting those...pleasant Pictures, and agreeable Visions in the Fancy: Judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully, one from another,...

...and prompt Memories, have not always the clearest Judgment, or deepest Reason. For Wit lying mostly in the assemblage of Ideas, and putting those together...pleasant Pictures, and agreeable Visions in the Fancy: Judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully, one from another,...

...of another. Contrary to John Locke, use of figurative language can be more than a show of "wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those...up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy."24 There is increasing theoretical appreciation of the fact that effective figurative linguistic...

...in his Dictionary entry under 'Wit', cites Locke's distinction between wit and judgement: Wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those...or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures in the fancy. Judgment, on the contrary, lies in separating carefully one from another, ideas wherein...

...that the two faculties are very different. Wit is a synthetic art, the ability to put together ideas "with quickness and variety, wherein can be found...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy." Judgment is the analytical ability to take apart ideas "wherein can be found the least difference,...