 | Roy Porter - 2000 - 776 pages
...68 and knowledge was acquired only by experience, that is to say, through the five senses: Methinks the Understanding is not much unlike a Closet wholly...found upon occasion, it would very much resemble the understanding of a man. 69 ‘Ideas' arose from an external material thing (eg snow) provoking first... | |
 | Martha Langford - 2001 - 264 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...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... | |
 | Frédéric Ogée, David Bindman, Peter Wagner - 2001 - 308 pages
...Sensation' are ‘the Window's by which light is let into this dark roommu' of the understanding, which ‘is not much unlike a closet wholly shut from light,...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 ¿‘ers'... | |
 | George Alexander Kennedy - 1989 - 978 pages
...the camera obscura as a model for the way in which such pictures are painted in the mind: ‘methinks the Understanding is not much unlike a Closet wholly...visible Resemblances, or Ideas of things without'. The dominant metaphor of ideas as pictures reinforces Locke's demonstration that our simple ideas are... | |
 | Barbara A. Murray - 2001 - 316 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 shut from light, with only some little opening left, to let in external visible resemblances, or ideas of things without; would the pictures... | |
 | Don Ihde - 2002 - 208 pages
...light, with only some little opening left, to let in external visible resemblances, or ideas limagesl of things without: would the pictures coming into...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.' Once again we... | |
 | Don Ihde - 2002 - 208 pages
...light, with only some little opening left, to let in external visible resemblances, or ideas [images! of things without: would the pictures coming into...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. 8 Once again we... | |
 | David William Bates - 2002 - 292 pages
...impressions. He described sensations as "the Windows by which light is let into this dark Room. For, methinks, the Understanding is not much unlike a Closet wholly...visible Resemblances, or Ideas of things without" (162-63). So while Locke could deny that there were any innate ideas, his conception of self-identity... | |
 | Peter Walmsley - 2003 - 208 pages
...becomes the expected. This is perhaps most evident when Locke speaks of mind as a camera ol'scura — “a Closet wholly shut from light, with only some...visible Resemblances, or Ideas of things without” (2.12.17). Elsewhere he likens the understanding to a lantern whose painted images are turned by the... | |
 | Alexandra Wettlaufer - 2003 - 316 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 shut from light, with only some little opening left, to let in external resemblances, or ideas of things without: would the pictures coming... | |
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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... 
