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An essay concerning human understanding. Also, extr. from the author's works ... - Page 165
by John Locke - 1819
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Volume 1

John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1805 - 554 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...ideas of things without : would the pictures coming -jnto such a dark rooi& but stay there, and lie so orderly as to be found upon occasion, it would very...
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Volume 1

John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1805 - 562 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...resemblances, or ideas of things without: would the pictures coining into sucli a dark room but stay there, and lie so orderly Darkroom §• ^7- I pretend not...
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Philosophical Essays

Dugald Stewart - Philosophy - 1811 - 590 pages
...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 re" semblances, or ideas of things without; would the pic"...
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Volume 1

John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1813 - 518 pages
...as far as I can discover, are the windows by which light is let into this dark rtom : for methinks the understanding is not much Unlike a closet wholly...stay there, and lie so orderly as to be found upon occasioni it would very much resemble the Understanding of a man, iu reference to all objects of sight,...
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The Analectic Magazine...: Comprising Original Reviews, Biography ..., Volume 9

1817 - 608 pages
...dark closet, into which the resemblances of outward existences were admitted through loop-holes; — ' would the pictures coming into such a dark room but...and lie so orderly as to be found upon occasion.'* The construction of such theories as these, is the • * On Human Understanding, B. II. c. 11. { 17....
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Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volume 1

Dugald Stewart - Psychology - 1814 - 528 pages
...external objects, by a similitude " very much resembling that of the cave. — " Methinks," says he, " the understanding is not much unlike a closet, " wholly...found " upon occasion, it would very much resemble the under'," standing of a man, in reference to all objects of sight, " and the ideas of them."* • "...
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Philosophical Essays

Dugald Stewart - Philosophy - 1816 - 644 pages
...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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A Search of Truth in the Science of the Human Mind, Part First, Volume 1

Frederick Beasley - Philosophy - 1822 - 584 pages
...of the cave. " Methinks," says he, " the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly shut out from light, with only some little opening left to...things without. Would the pictures coming into such dark room but stay there, and lie so orderly as to be found upon occasion, it would very much resemble...
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The Works of John Locke, Volume 1

John Locke - Philosophy - 1823 - 388 pages
...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 opening...it would very much resemble the understanding of a Uark room. ? j . i_ /• ^ i , e man, in reference to all objects of sight, and the ideas of them....
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Volume 1

John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1824 - 702 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...dark room but stay there, and lie so orderly as to to found upon occasion, it would very much resemble the underi standing- of a man, in reference to...
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