 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
 | Carl Dale Hill - 1993 - 264 pages
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 | Carl Dale Hill - 1993 - 268 pages
...as we see from John Locke's description of it: 'Wit lies most in the assemblage of ideas and [puts] those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruiry, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy' (chap.1 1, §2).... | |
 | Veronica Kelly, Dorothea von Mücke - 1994 - 364 pages
...wit and judgment so as to deny figural language any legitimate epistemological role: 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,... | |
 | Jaakko Hintikka - 1994 - 278 pages
...Essay where he distinguishes wit, the operation of "assemblage of ideas . . . with quickness . . . wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity,...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy," from judgement, the operation of discerning ideas, "thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and... | |
 | 1984 - 854 pages
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 | Elizabeth Kraft - 1996 - 200 pages
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 | Andrew Sanders - 1996 - 736 pages
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