 | Christopher Hamilton - 2003 - 452 Seiten
...fundamentally the basis of our knowledge. Thus Locke wrote in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: Let us then suppose the Mind to be, as we say, white...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... | |
 | Steven Pinker - 2003 - 532 Seiten
...used a different metaphor. Here is the famous passage from An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white...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... | |
 | Natalie Depraz, Francisco J. Varela, Pierre Vermersch - 2003 - 296 Seiten
...meaning conferred upon experience by the English philosophers of the 18th and 19th centuries. Let us suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void...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... | |
 | Diane P. Freedman, Olivia Frey - 2003 - 516 Seiten
...revealing immutable, universal laws" (72). The perspective is based on the epistemology of John Locke: "Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white...paper, void of all characters, without any ideas" (.pj. In this schema1 truths are objective, and we take them in, unmarked by our places or ourselves.... | |
 | Oliver J. Thatcher - 2004 - 466 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... | |
 | Paul Lodge - 2004 - 328 Seiten
...Locke's claim is that all our ideas come from "experience," of which he finds two kinds, sensation and reflection: Let us then suppose the Mind to be, as...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... | |
 | Athanassios Raftopoulos - 2005 - 258 Seiten
...Senses at first let in particular Ideas, and furnish the yet empty Cabinet" (Locke 1689, I, 1, §15) or "Let us then suppose the Mind to be, as we say, white...Paper, void of all Characters, without any Ideas;" (II, 1, §2) On the other hand, the rationalists asked whether it is possible that the mind presents... | |
 | Carl Zimmer - 2004 - 382 Seiten
...method that his friend Sydenham used with diseases. Locke argued that the mind was empty at birth. "Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white...paper, void of all characters, without any ideas," he proposed. "How comes it to be furnished?" He argued that through the senses, ideas entered the mind... | |
 | Catherine E. Ingrassia, Jeffrey S. Ravel - 2005 - 364 Seiten
...Locke's famous metaphor of the mind as a tabula rasa offers a view of the human subject as narrative: "Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white...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... | |
 | David Inglis, John Bone, Rhoda Wilkie - 2005 - 410 Seiten
...original version of that doctrine. Locke himself had meant by it merely that we are born without knowledge "Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white...characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? ... To this I answer in one word, from EXPERIENCE; in that all our knowledge is founded."20 He had... | |
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Let us then suppose 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 an almost endless... 
