| Johann Eduard Erdmann - 1840 - 460 Seiten
...principle of principles „ that principles must not be questioned." Ibid. §. 22.24. Zu §. 4. 7. Let us then suppose the mind to be,. as we say, white...without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished?.... To this I answer in one word, from experience; in all that our knowledge is founded, and from that... | |
| Samuel Tyler - 1844 - 214 Seiten
...second book, he shows the true theory of the origin of ideas or of human knowledge, "Let us,'' says he, '.'then suppose the mind to be as we say white paper,...characters, without any ideas, how comes it to be furnished? Where cornea it by that vast store which the busy and bouiulle-s fancy of man has painted on it with... | |
| 1844 - 428 Seiten
...abridged and condensed statement, containing rather the result than the process of his argument. " Let us suppose the mind to be as we say white paper — void...characters, without any ideas : How comes it to be furnished ? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge ? To this I answer in one word, from experience... | |
| Asa Mahan - 1845 - 348 Seiten
...question, he starts the following as the great problem in philosophy. " Let us suppose," he says, " the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all...characters, without any ideas, how comes it to be furnished ? Whence comes it by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it, with... | |
| John Locke - 1849 - 588 Seiten
...they may come into the mind; for which I shall appeal to every one's own observation and experience. 2. All ideas come from sensation or reflection. —...characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it, with... | |
| 1850 - 818 Seiten
...every-day life and other sources, is but as a drop in the ocean. " Let us then," observes Locke, " suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void...characters, without any ideas. How comes it to be furnished ? Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it,... | |
| James Bryce - 1852 - 630 Seiten
...held in harmony with the qualifications already mentioned. Mr. Locke thus propounds it : — "Let us suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void...characters, without any ideas. How comes it to be furnished ? Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with... | |
| Claude Henri Victor Cousin - 1852 - 464 Seiten
...special theory of Locke on the origin of ideas. " Let us then suppose, says Locke (B. II. Chap. I. § 2), the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all...characters, without any ideas ; how comes it to be furnished ? Whence comes it by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it, with... | |
| Victor Cousin - 1853 - 444 Seiten
...special theory of Locke on the origin of ideas. " Let us then suppose, says Locke (B. II. Chap. I. § 2), the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all...characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished ? Whence comes it by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it, with... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1855 - 542 Seiten
...borrows the motto of his own speculations upon the origin of our ideas. " Let us suppose," says Locke, " the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all...characters, without any ideas ; how comes it to be furnished ? Whence comes it by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it, with... | |
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