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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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A Comparative History of World Philosophy: From the Upanishads to Kant

Ben-Ami Scharfstein - 1998 - 710 pages
...perceptions or ideas). How does it happen, Locke asks, that the paper becomes filled with all that ‘the busy and boundless Fancy of Man has painted...has it all the materials of Reason and Knowledge?' (2.1.2).¿6 Locke answers, ‘in one word, From Experience: In that, all our Knowledge is founded;...
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Becoming Divine: Towards a Feminist Philosophy of Religion

Grace Jantzen, Grace M. Jantzen - 1998 - 308 pages
...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. (Locke [1689] 1959: 122) When experience is taken as the origin of knowledge,...
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Becoming Divine: Towards a Feminist Philosophy of Religion

Grace Jantzen - 1999 - 308 pages
...say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas: — How comes itso be furnished?. . . Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from experience. (locke [1689] 1959: 122) When experience is taken as the origin of knowledge,...
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From Cognition to Being: Prolegomena for Teachers

Henry Davis McHenry - 1999 - 210 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. In that all our knowledge is founded, and from that it ultimately derives...
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Gainsborough's Vision

Amal Asfour, Dr Paul Williamson, Paul Williamson - 1999 - 360 pages
...a 'white Paper, void of all Characters, without any Ideas', that is subsequently 'furnished' with a 'vast store, which the busy and boundless Fancy of Man has painted on it'. 31 The mind is filled with ideas, 'materials of Reason and Knowledge'; these are derived from 'Experience'...
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Postpositivism and Educational Research

Denis Charles Phillips, Nicholas C. Burbules - 2000 - 118 pages
...Whence comes it by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it wilh an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from EXPERIENCE. In that till our knowledge is founded: and from lluit it ultimately derives...
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Legal Concepts of Childhood

Julia Fionda - 2001 - 283 pages
...white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes that vast store, which the busy and boundless fancy...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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Visual Perception: An Introduction

Nicholas Wade, Michael Swanston - 2001 - 308 pages
...without any Ideas; How comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busie and boundless Fancy of Man has painted on it with...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 Creation of the Modern World: The Untold Story of the British Enlightenment

Roy Porter - 2000 - 772 pages
...concermng Human Understanding, Locke asks: ‘Whence comes it [the mind] by that vast store [of ideas], which the busy and boundless Fancy of Man has painted on it, with an almost endless variety?' (which was the same as asking, ‘Whence has it all the materials of Reason and Knowledge?'), and replies:...
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The Creation of the Modern World: The Untold Story of the British Enlightenment

Roy Porter - 2000 - 776 pages
...concerning Human Understanding, Locke asks: ‘Whence comes it [the mind] by that vast store [of ideas], which the busy and boundless Fancy of Man has painted on it, with an almost endless variety?' (which was the same as asking, ‘Whence has it all the materials of Reason and Knowledge?'), and replies:...
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