...con abbastanza determinazioni. Dei moltisssimi passi che potrei citare mi bastano i due seguenti : « The power to produce any idea in our mind I call quality of the subject wherein that power is » (p. 85). E più chiaramente ancora : « There are real constitutions in things from whence these...

...phenomenists and empirio-criticists of the present day. Locke's definition of an idea as ' ' whatsoever the mind perceives in itself or is the immediate object of perception, thought, or understanding, ' ' became in Berkeley 's hands the doctrine that we know only our own ideas. Locke's misapprehension...

...resemblances of something inherent in the subject (/. e., the substance perceived). . . . Whatsoever the mind perceives in itself, or is the immediate...call quality of the subject wherein that power is. ... Qualities thus considered in bodies are: " First, such as are utterly inseparable from the body,...

...consciousness, and, strictly speaking, do not refer to anything beyond themselves. Locke says that "whatsoever the mind perceives in itself, or is the immediate...perception, thought or understanding, that I call idea." 1 The task which Locke sets for himself is to build up the entire body of knowledge out of elements...

...material substance. But let us appeal to the Essay for Locke's decision upon this point : — " Whatsoever the mind perceives in itself, or is the immediate...perception, thought, or understanding, that I call idea." — Locke's Essay, b. ii, ch. 8, § 8. Here it will be observed that the idea is something independent...

...idea," which has given rise to the name " Idealist." Here is his own definition of it — " Whatsoever the mind perceives in itself, or is the immediate...perception, thought, or understanding, that I call Idea." We have here, it will be noticed, the assumption that the mind does not immediately perceive things,...

...restricting the word 'idea' to what is 'in the mind'. So we have Whatsoever the Mind perceives in it self, or is the immediate object of Perception, Thought,...call Quality of the Subject wherein that power is. (II.viii.8) The passage about the snowball follows immediately. When we consider that it is intended...

...I, I, 1, p. 154). Cf. la définition suivante de Locke: «Whatsoever the Mind perceives in it self, or is the immediate object of Perception, Thought, or Understanding, that I call Idea.» Q. Locke, An Essay Conceming Human Understanding, éd. PH Nidditch, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1975,...

...majority of philosophers. In his An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Locke writes: "whatsoever the mind perceives in itself, or is the immediate...mind, I call quality of the subject wherein that power is."8 Thus, broadly speaking, being a quality is essentially the ability to produce in someone (or...

...throughout this work and is explicitly defined as follows: "Whatsoever the Mind perceives in it self, or is the immediate object of Perception, Thought or Understanding, that I call Idea" (Essay, O.viii.8). But Locke maintains that not all ideas are particular. In his account of words he...