 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
 | Arthur Kenyon Rogers - 1907 - 534 pàgines
...alone, so 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... | |
 | Archibald Browning Drysdale Alexander - 1908 - 640 pàgines
...far as I can discover, are the windows by which the light is let into this dark room ; for methinks the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly...light; with only some little opening left, to let in some external visible resemblances, or ideas of things without." It will thus be seen that, according... | |
 | Jay William Hudson - 1911 - 150 pàgines
...which experience gradually writes its record. Or, again, it is a "dark room" says Locke: "for 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" (II, xi, § 17).... | |
 | University of Missouri - 1911 - 130 pàgines
...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" (II, xi, § 17). Complex ideas, ideas of Modes, Substance, Relation, may appear at first sight underivative... | |
 | James Seth - 1912 - 404 pàgines
...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 shut from light, with only some little openings left, to let in external visible resemblances, or ideas of things without : would the pictures... | |
 | Raymond Gregory - 1919 - 114 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... | |
 | John Locke - 1924 - 438 pàgines
...alone, as far as T~can discover; are the windows oy whfch light is let into this dark room. For methinks the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly...some little opening left to let in external visible 1 resemblances or ideas of things without : would the pictures coming into such a dark room but stay... | |
 | John Locke - 1928 - 428 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... | |
 | John W. Yolton - 1984 - 262 pàgines
...sensation to "the windows by which light is let into this dark room" of the understanding. "For, methinks, the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly...visible resemblances, or ideas of things without." Comparing the eye to a camera obscura was standard in writings on optics. Robert Hooke remarks in his... | |
 | Donald A. Crosby - 1988 - 474 pàgines
...understanding as being "not unlike a closet wholly shut from light, with only some little openings left, to let in external visible resemblances, or ideas of things without —" These little openings or windows are the senses, and by them alone is some small amount of light... | |
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