 | Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison - 1885 - 268 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...visible resemblances or ideas of things without." 3 Perception, he puts it again, is "the inlet of all knowledge into our minds ; " or, more properly,... | |
 | James McCosh - 1887 - 340 pages
...let into this dark room ; for methiuks the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly shut out from light, with only some little opening left to...pictures coming into such a dark room but stay there and be so orderly as to be found upon occasion, it would very much resemble the understanding of a man... | |
 | David Hume - 1890 - 598 pages
...something is reported, something let in — and in the familiar comparison of the understanding to a ' closet, wholly shut from light, with only some...visible resemblances, or ideas, of things without.' (Book II. chap. xi. sec. 17.) Fe»ling 22. Phraseology of this kind, the standing heritage of the and... | |
 | Karl M. Dallenbach, Madison Bentley, Edwin Garrigues Boring, Margaret Floy Washburn - 1892 - 636 pages
...11:2. — "These alone * * are 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." In this passage the figure used to express the whole process of the understanding is taken from the... | |
 | John Locke - 1894 - 692 pages
...fact 1 pa CHAP. XI. BOOK Ir. 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 openings left, to let in external visible l resemblances, or ideas of things without : [2 would the... | |
 | James Phinney Munroe - 1895 - 278 pages
...Essay. This, in its Prolegomena and notes, is a mine of valuable and scholarly commentary. " Methinks the understanding is not much, unlike a closet wholly...visible resemblances, or ideas of things without."» Upon this blankness, as upon fair wax, impressions are made, or into this vacancy, as into an empty... | |
 | James Phinney Munroe - 1895 - 280 pages
...misused when taken as an equivalent to Locke's white paper or other sensualist similes. All " Methinks the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly...external visible resemblances, or ideas of things without."1 Upon this blankness, as upon fair wax, impressions are made, or into this vacancy, as into... | |
 | 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...visible resemblances, or ideas of things without. . . . Thus," he continues, "the first capacity of the human intellect is, that the mind is fitted to... | |
 | Denton Jaques Snider - 1904 - 852 pages
...the background of Locke's thought. It is "a darkroom," "a closedcabinet,"hard to see into; " methinks the Understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly...external visible resemblances, or ideas of things" (II. 11, 17). This is of course not all of the Understanding, but only its implicit or potential stage.... | |
 | 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 shut from light, with only some little openings left to let in external visible resemblances or ideas of things without : [would the pictures... | |
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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 openings left to let in external visible resemblances, or ideas of things... 
