 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
 | Dugald Stewart - 1859 - 508 pàgines
...ceiving external objects by a similitude very much resembling that of the cave, ' Methinks/ says he, ' the understanding is not much unlike a closet, wholly...without,, Would the pictures coining into such a dark room but stay there, and lie so orderly as to be found upon occasion, it would very much resemble the understanding... | |
 | Francis Wayland - 1859 - 442 pàgines
...room ; for, methinks, the understanding is not much unlike a close t wholly shut from the light, with some little opening left to let in external visible resemblances or ideas of tilings without. Would the pictures coming into such a dark room but stay there and lie orderly, so... | |
 | 1867 - 522 pàgines
...manner of perception that appears to have been borrowed from that of Phito : — " Methinks," he says, " the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly shut from light, with only some little light opening left to let in external visible resemblances, or ideas of things without Would the pictures... | |
 | David Hume - 1874 - 604 pàgines
...something is reported, something let in — and in the familiar comparison of the understanding to a ' closet, wholly shut from light, with only some...visible resemblances, or ideas, of things without.' (Book n. chap. xi. sec. 17.) Feeling 22. Phraseology of this kind, the standing heritage of the and... | |
 | David Hume - 1874 - 604 pàgines
...something is reported, something let in — and in the familiar comparison of the understanding to a ' closet, wholly shut from light, with only some...visible resemblances, or ideas, of things without.' (Book n. chap. xi. sec. 17.) Feeling 22. Phraseology of this kind, the standing heritage of the and... | |
 | Robert Cleary - 1878 - 240 pàgines
...does Locke illustrate the perception by the understahding of external visible objects? — " Methinks the understanding is not much unlike a CLOSET WHOLLY SHUT FROM LIGHT, with only some little openings left, to let in external visible resemblances, or ideas of things without ; would the pictures... | |
 | John Locke - 1879 - 722 pàgines
...as far as I can discover, are the windows by which light is let into this dark room. For inethinks 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 BO orderly as to be found upon occasion, it would... | |
 | James McCosh - 1884 - 96 pàgines
...let into this dark room ; for methinks the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly shut out from light, with only some little opening left to...resemblances or ideas of things without ; would the pictures coming into such a dark room but stay there and be so orderly as to be found >' '" " " AJ .-* P.'*... | |
 | Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison - 1885 - 268 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...visible resemblances or ideas of things without." 3 Perception, he puts it again, is "the inlet of all knowledge into our minds ; " or, more properly,... | |
 | James McCosh - 1887 - 340 pàgines
...let into this dark room ; for methiuks the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly shut out from light, with only some little opening left to...resemblances or ideas of things without ; would the pictures coming into such a dark room but stay there and be so orderly as to be found upon occasion, it would... | |
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