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" 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 coming into a dark room but stay there, and lie so orderly... "
The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart: Philosophical essays. 1855 - Page 67
by Dugald Stewart - 1855
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The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Fugitive writings

William Hazlitt - 1904 - 642 pages
...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 shut from light, with only some little opening left, to let in external visible resemblances, or ideas of things without: would the pictures...
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Modern European Philosophy: The History of Modern Philosophy ...

Denton Jaques Snider - 1904 - 858 pages
...background of Locke's thought. It is "a darkroom," "a closed cabinet, "hard to see into; " 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" (11.11,17). This is of course...
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The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Fugitive writings

William Hazlitt - 1904 - 636 pages
...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 shut from light, with only some little opening left, to let in external visible resemblances, or ideas of things without: would the pictures...
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A Primer of Philosophy

Angelo Solomon Rappoport - 1904 - 134 pages
...so far as I can discover, are the windows by which light is let into this dark room ; for metbiuks 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 without. . . . Thus," he continues,...
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Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding: Books II and IV (with ..., Book 2

John Locke - 1905 - 382 pages
...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...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 very much...
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A Student's History of Philosophy

Arthur Kenyon Rogers - 1907 - 536 pages
...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 shut from light, with only some little opening left, to let in external visible resemblances, or ideas of things without: would the pictures...
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A Student's History of Philosophy

Arthur Kenyon Rogers - 1907 - 534 pages
...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 shut from light, with only some little opening left, to let in external visible resemblances, or ideas of things without: would the pictures...
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A Short History of Philosophy

Archibald Browning Drysdale Alexander - 1908 - 644 pages
...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 shut from light, with only some little opening left, to let in some external visible resemblances, or ideas of things without." It will thus...
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English Philosophers and Schools of Philosophy

James Seth - 1912 - 404 pages
...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...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 very much...
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English Thought for English Thinkers

St. George William Joseph Stock - 1912 - 246 pages
...upon the minds of his followers. Locke says (I. xi., § 17)— “Would the pictures coming into such a dark room but stay there, and lie so orderly as...found upon occasion, it would very much resemble the understanding of a man, in reference to all objects of sight, and the ideas of them.” The metaphor...
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