 | John W. Yolton - 1984 - 262 pages
...is as follows: "I have here supposed that my Reader is acquainted with that great Modern Discovery, which is at present universally acknowledged by all...that have any Existence in Matter. As this is a Truth that has been proved incontestably by many Modern Philosophers, and is indeed one of the finest Speculations... | |
 | John W. Yolton - 1984 - 262 pages
...is as follows: "I have here supposed that my Reader is acquainted with that great Modern Discovery, which is at present universally acknowledged by all...that have any Existence in Matter. As this is a Truth that has been proved incontestably by many Modern Philosophers, and is indeed one of the finest Speculations... | |
 | H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson - 2005 - 978 pages
...greatest detail, with an extraordinary application of Locke's 'great Discovery', confirmed by Newton, 'that Light and Colours, as apprehended by the Imagination,...not Qualities that have any Existence in Matter': The psychology of literary creation and literary response 611 [God] has given almost every thing about... | |
 | Robert Jan van Pelt, Robert Jan Pelt, Carroll William Westfall - 1991 - 438 pages
...with that great modern discovery, which is at present universally acknowledged by all the inquiries into natural philosophy, namely that light and colours,...and not qualities that have any existence in matter. . . . Our souls are at present delightfully lost and bewildered in a pleasing delusion, and we walk... | |
 | Walter Pape, Frederick Burwick - 1995 - 380 pages
...from reality and the external world, receiving only shadowy projections of things as they are" (p. 7). Natural Philosophy: Namely, that Light and Colours,...that have any Existence in Matter. As this is a Truth that has been proved incontestably by many modern Philosophers and is indeed one of the finest Speculations... | |
 | Robin Dix - 2000 - 306 pages
...operate within. It is explicitly based on Locke's distinction between primary and secondary qualities, "Namely, that Light and Colours, as apprehended by...and not Qualities that have any Existence in Matter" (413, 3:547). The insertion of "Imagination" here as a specific mode of apprehension enables Addison... | |
 | Thomas Alan King - 2004 - 388 pages
...much indebted to Atherton's analysis. As Addison commented in Spectator no. 413, Locke had discovered "that Light and Colours, as apprehended by the Imagination,...and not Qualities that have any Existence in Matter" (24 June 1712, 3:547). See Locke, Essay, 2.8.2, 7, 19, pp. 110-11, 116. 72. Where materialism holds... | |
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I have here supposed that my reader is acquainted with that great modern discovery, which is at present universally acknowledged -by all the inquirers into natural philosophy : namely, that light and colours, as apprehended by the imagination, are only... 
