...klar zu ziehen schien: For Wit lying most in the assemblage of Ideas, and putting those together widi quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance...pleasant Pictures, and agreeable Visions in the Fancy: Judgement, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully, one from another,...

...critics and poets, is that of the most influential philosopher of the age, John Locke, who defines it as 'the Assemblage of Ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety'. Locke is here, however, acting as the spokesperson for the new highly developed and articulate consciousness...

...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...

...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,...

...definitions of wit and judgement: see EssenConcerning Human Understanding, II.xi.2, p. 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,...

...was to crystallise into Locke's enormously influential antithesis of'wit' and 'judgment': Wit lying most in the Assemblage of Ideas, and putting those...wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity. . .Judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully Ideas one from...

...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...and variety wherein can be found any resemblance or eongraity, thereby to make up pleasant pietores and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the...

...the clearest judgment or deepest reason. For, wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and patting those together with quickness and variety wherein can be found any resemblance or eongreity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment, on the...

...cited parenthetically in the text by line number. 33. Locke argues that wit, on the one hand, consists "in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety," and that "judgment on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully, one from...