The Enlightenment and English Literature: Prose and Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, with Selected Modern Critical EssaysJohn L. Mahoney |
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... mind and matter and advances his revolutionary epistemology . Marveling at the diversity of nature in his Discours de la méthode of 1637 , he " ... believed it to be impos- sible for the human mind to distinguish the forms or species of ...
... mind and matter and advances his revolutionary epistemology . Marveling at the diversity of nature in his Discours de la méthode of 1637 , he " ... believed it to be impos- sible for the human mind to distinguish the forms or species of ...
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... mind ; for which I shall appeal to every one's own observation and experience . 2. All ideas come from sensation or reflection.— Let us then suppose the mind to be , as we say , white paper , void of all characters , without any ideas ...
... mind ; for which I shall appeal to every one's own observation and experience . 2. All ideas come from sensation or reflection.— Let us then suppose the mind to be , as we say , white paper , void of all characters , without any ideas ...
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... mind enter by the senses simple and unmixed . For though the sight and touch often take in from the same object , at the same time , different ideas - as a man sees at once motion and colour , the hand feels softness and warmth in the ...
... mind enter by the senses simple and unmixed . For though the sight and touch often take in from the same object , at the same time , different ideas - as a man sees at once motion and colour , the hand feels softness and warmth in the ...
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Mark Akenside | 10 |
Alexander Pope | 15 |
from THE DUNCIAD | 98 |
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