 | James McCosh - 1866 - 424 Seiten
...(specially mentioned by Locke, Essay, B. II. c. ii. § 23) by which one body operates upon another; " thus the sun has a power to make wax white, and fire to make lead fluid." It is enough for us here to examine Mr. Mill's theory of the production of the idea of Eesistance and... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1867 - 664 Seiten
...into any receptivity or subjectivity of mine." " those powers by which one body operates upon another; thus " the sun has a power to make wax white, and fire to make lead " fluid." If Dr. M'Cosh had entered even a very little way into the mode of thought which he is combating, he... | |
 | 1868 - 904 Seiten
...figure, thus omitting, I said, those powers mentioned by Locke, by which one body operates upon another. "Thus the sun has a power to make wax white, and fire to make lead fluid." When I said so I had entered a good way, notwithstanding his insinuation to the contrary, into the... | |
 | James McCosh - 1868 - 90 Seiten
...thus omitting, I said, those powers mentioned by Locke, by which one body operates upon another. " Thus the sun has a power to make wax white, and fire to make lead fluid." When I said so, I had entered a good way, notwithstanding his insinuation to the contrary, into the... | |
 | James McCosh - 1869 - 82 Seiten
...thus omitting, I said, those powers mentioned by Locke, by which one body operates upon another. " Thus the sun has a power to make wax white, and fire to make lead fluid." AVhen I said so, I had entered a good way, notwithstanding his insinuation to the contrary, into the... | |
 | David Hume - 1874 - 604 Seiten
...bulk, figure, texture, and motion of another body, as to make it operate differently on our senses from what it did before. Thus the sun has a power...make lead fluid. These are usually called powers.' (Book n. chap. viii. sec. 15, 23.) 20. What we have here is a theory of the causes of simple | Simple... | |
 | David Hume - 1874 - 604 Seiten
...bulk, figure, texture, and motion of another body, as to make it operate differently on our senses from what it did before. Thus the sun has a power...make lead fluid. These are usually called powers.' (Book n. chap. viii. sec. 15, 23.) 20. What we have here is a theory of the causes of simple ; Simple... | |
 | Henry Richard Fox Bourne - 1876 - 616 Seiten
...such a change in the bulk, figure, texture, and motion of another body as to make it operate on our senses differently from what it did before ; thus...power to make wax white, and fire to make lead fluid." 1 Locke's explanation of the way in which simple ideas of sensation enter the mind was not satisfactory.... | |
 | Henry Richard Fox Bourne - 1876 - 598 Seiten
...such a change in the bulk, figure, texture, and motion of another body as to make it operate on our senses differently from what it did before ; thus...has a power to make wax white, and fire to make lead fluid."1 Locke's explanation of the way in which simple ideas of sensation enter the mind was not satisfactory.... | |
 | Robert Cleary - 1878 - 240 Seiten
...examples of secondary qualities? — Colours, sounds, tastes, etc. Give some examples of " Powers" ? — The sun has a power to make wax white, and fire to make lead fluid. How do bodies produce ideas of original qualities in us? — By impulse— the only way which we can... | |
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The power that is in any body, by reason of the particular constitution of its primary qualities, to make such a change in the bulk, figure, texture, and motion of another body, as to make it operate on our senses differently from what it did before.... 
