 I can discover, are the windows by which light is let into this dark room; for methinks the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly shut from light, with only some little opening left, to let in external visible resemblances, or ideas of things...  American Journal of Education - Pàgina 1631830Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1840 - 456 pàgines
...opposite Paio or Uneasiness, Power, Existence, Unity. Chapt. VII. §. 1. The understanding is not rauch unlike a closet wholly shut from light, with only some little opening left, to let in external visihle resemblances or ideas of things without. Chapt. XI. §. 17. Zu §. 5. 12. As the inind is wholly... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1836 - 1000 pàgines
...alone, as far as I can discover, are the windows by which light is let into this dark room. For methinks the understanding is not much unlike a closet, wholly...resemblances, or ideas of things without : would the pictures coming into such a dark room but stay there, and lie so orderly as to be found upon occasion, it would... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1836 - 538 pàgines
...alone, as far as I can discover, are the windows by which light is let into this dark room. For methinks the understanding is not much unlike a closet, wholly...resemblances, or ideas of things without : would the pictures coming into such a dark room but stay there, and lie so orderly as to be found upon occasion, it would... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1836 - 526 pàgines
...alone, as far as I can discover, are the windows by which light is let into this dark room. For methinks the understanding is not much unlike a closet, wholly...resemblances, or ideas of things without : would the pictures coming into such a dark room but stay there, and lie so orderly as to be found upon occasion, it would... | |
 | Johann Eduard Erdmann - 1840 - 460 pàgines
...Pleasure or Delight, and its opposite Pain or Uneasiness, Power, Existence, Unity. Chapt. VII. §, 1. The understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly...external visible resemblances or ideas of things without. Chapt. XL §. 17. Zu §. 5. 12. As the mind is wholly passive in the reception of all its simple ideas... | |
 | George Combe - 1843 - 522 pàgines
...objects by comparing the understanding to a " closet, wholly shut from light, with only some liUle opening left, to let in external visible resemblances or ideas of things without." The notion of all these philosophers was, that, from the existence oí thés« images or ideas, the... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1846 - 1080 pàgines
...perceiving external objects, by a similitude very much resembling that of the cave. l£ Methinks," sa\s he, "the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly...opening left, to let in external visible resemblances or ideae of things without. Would the pictures coming into such a dark room but stay there, and lie so... | |
 | John Locke - 1849 - 588 pàgines
...alone, as far aa I can discover, are the windows by which light is let into this dark room. For methinks the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly...resemblances or ideas of things without: would the pictures coming into such a dark room but stay there, and lie so orderly as to be found upon occasion, it would... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1850 - 496 pàgines
...perceiving external objects by a similitude very much resembling that of the cave. " Methinks," says he, " the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly...external visible resemblances or ideas of things without. Wpuld the pictures coming into such a dark room but stay there, and lie so orderly as to be found upon... | |
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