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" Whence comes it by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it, with an almost endless variety ? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge ? To this I answer, in a word, from experience. In that all our knowledge... "
The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart: Philosophical essays. 1855 - Page 133
by Dugald Stewart - 1855
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The Book of Nature: From the Last London Ed., to which is Now Prefixed, a ...

John Mason Good - 1837 - 488 pages
...that has since been fabricated upon the subject. "Whence," inquires Mr. Locke, '• comes the mind by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy...Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge ? 1 answer, in a word, from experience. In this all our knowledge is founded; from this the whole emanates...
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The Quarterly Christian Spectator

1834 - 692 pages
...adherence to it, is iheir province and applause. Says the first of these writers, speaking of the mind, " Whence comes it by that vast store which the busy...materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from experience."* Stewart remarks, " By confining their attention to the sensible -qualities...
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The Christian Messenger and Reformer, Volume 8

1844 - 428 pages
...be as we say white paper—void of all characters, without any ideas: How comes it to be furnished ? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge ? To this I answer in one word, from experience and observation. This, when employed about external sensible objects, we...
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: And a Treatise on the Conduct of ...

John Locke - 1800 - 540 pages
...as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas ; how comes it to be furnished 7 Whence comes it by that vast store which the busy...has painted on it, with an almost endless variety Î Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge Î To this I answer in one word, from experience...
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Geschichte der christlichen Philosophie, Volume 7

Heinrich Ritter - 1852 - 618 pages
...SBegriffe fommt tym ju< 1) Ib. IV, 7, 6; 9. 2) Ib. II, 1, i. 3) Ib. II, 1, 2. Whence has it (sc. the mind) all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one •word, from experience. — — Our observation employed either about external sensible objects,...
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Locke's essays. An essay concerning human understanding. And A treatise on ...

John Locke - 1854 - 536 pages
...as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas ; how comes it to be furnished 1 Whence comes it by that vast store which the busy...Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge 1 To this I answer in one word, from experience ; in that all our knowledge is founded, and from that...
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A class-book of English prose, with biogr. notices, explanatory notes and ...

Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas ; how comes it to be furnished 1 Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy...materials of reason and knowledge ? To this I answer, in one word, from experience ; in that all our knowledge is founded, and from that it ultimately derives...
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The Prose and Prose Writers of Britain from Chaucer to Ruskin: With ...

Robert Demaus - 1860 - 580 pages
...how comes it to be furnished ! Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy and boundless foncy of man has painted on it, with an almost endless variety...materials of reason and knowledge ? To this I answer, in one word, from experience ; in that all our knowledge is founded, and from that it ultimately derives...
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The Vocabulary of Philosophy, Mental, Moral, and Metaphysical: With ...

William Fleming - 1860 - 912 pages
...has assigned experience as the only and universal source of human knowledge. "Whence hath the mind all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from expericnce; in that, all our knowledge is founded, and from that ultimately derives...
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Transactions of the ... Annual Session, Volumes 1-6

Homeopathic Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania - 1867 - 702 pages
...and Mr. Locke, another celebrated philosopher, expressed himself as follows: "Whence comes the mind by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy...has painted on it, with an almost endless variety? I answer, in a word, from experience. In this, all knowledge is founded; from this the whole emanates...
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