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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... "
The Works of Thomas Reid; with an Account of His Life and Writings - Page 413
by Thomas Reid - 1822
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That They be One: The Social Teaching of the Papal Encyclicals, 1740-1989

Michael Joseph Schuck - 1991 - 244 pages
...internal sensation" are the sole "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." John Locke, An Kssay Concerning...
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Shame and the Self

Francis J. Broucek - 1991 - 190 pages
...as far as 1 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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Intentionalität und Konstitution: eine Einführung in Husserls Logische ...

Dan Zahavi - 1992 - 164 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...pictures coming into such a dark room but stay there, and He so orderly as to be found upon occasion, it would very much resemble the understanding of a 118...
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Leibniz' Auffassung des menschlichen Verstandes (intellectus): eine ...

Werner Schüssler - 1992 - 280 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 openings left, to let in external visible diesem Sinne kann Leibniz die Seele auch als eine ideenbildende...
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The Early Illuminated Books

William Blake - 1993 - 302 pages
...Understanding. 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 shut from light, with only some little openings left, to let in external visible Resemblances, or Ideas of things without. . . . (2.11.162-3)...
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Auge & Ohr: Studien zur Erforschung der Sprache am Menschen 1700-1850

Joachim Gessinger - 1994 - 824 pages
...alone, as far as I can discover, are the Windows 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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Body and Text in the Eighteenth Century

Veronica Kelly, Dorothea von Mücke - 1994 - 364 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 openings left, to let in external visible Resemblances, or Ideas of things without; would the Pictures...
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Allegory and Violence

Gordon Teskey - 1996 - 220 pages
...that the external world is matter in motion, and that the experience of the mind is, in Locke's words, "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." 8 The vast, intermediate...
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Uneasy Sensations: Smollett and the Body

Aileen Douglas - 1995 - 244 pages
...Black and White" — is in keeping with the Essay's recurring images of enclosure and containment. The understanding is "not much unlike a Closet wholly shut from light" (163); it is as a "worm shut up in one drawer of a Cabinet" (120). Locke's localization of sensation...
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Leibniz: New Essays on Human Understanding

Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz - 1996 - 528 pages
...of it. However, those who know him more intimately assure me that it is quite genuine. PHIL. §17. 'The understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly shut from light, with only some little openings left, to let in external visible [images] ;1 would the [images]2 coming into such a dark room...
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