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" It may also lead us a little towards the original of all our notions and knowledge, if we remark how great a dependence our words have on common sensible ideas; and how those which are made use of to stand for actions and notions quite removed from sense,... "
An essay concerning human understanding. To which are now added, i. analysis ... - Page 426
by John Locke - 1824
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The Rhetoric of Empiricism: Language and Perception from Locke to I.A. Richards

Jules David Law - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1993 - 282 pages
...Notions and Knowledge, if we remark, how great a dépendance our Words have on common sensible Ideas; and how those, which are made use of to stand for...Imagine, Apprehend, Comprehend, Adhere, Conceive, Instill, Disgust, Disturbance, Tranquillity, etc. are all Words taken from the Operations of sensible...
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: Critical Assessments, Volume 1

R. S. Woolhouse - Philosophy - 1994 - 536 pages
...Notions and Knowledge, if we remark, how great a Dependance our Words have on common sensible Ideas; and how those, which are made use of to stand for...Ideas are transferred to more abstruse Significations . . . vg to Imagine, Apprehend, Comprehend, Adhere, Conceive, Instill, Disgust, Disturbance, Tranquillity,...
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The Emerson Effect: Individualism and Submission in America

Christopher Newfield - Literary Collections - 1996 - 292 pages
...Notions and Knowledge, if we remark, how great a dependance our Words have on common sensible Ideas; and how those, which are made use of to stand for...that come not under the cognizance of our senses; v.ff. to Imagine, Apprehend, Comprehend, Adhere, Conceive, Instill, Disgust, Disturbance, Tranquility,...
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The Emerson Effect: Individualism and Submission in America

Christopher Newfield - Literary Collections - 1996 - 294 pages
...sense, hare their rite from thence, and from ohrious tensihle Ideas are transferred to more ahstrute significations, and made to stand for Ideas that come...senses; vg. to Imagine, Apprehend, Comprehend, Adhere, Conceire, Instill, Disgust, Disturhance, Tranqutlity, etc. are all Words taken from the Operations...
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At Zero Point: Discourse, Culture, and Satire in Restoration England

Rose A. Zimbardo - History - 1998 - 222 pages
...Notions and Knowledge, if we remark, how great a dependence our Words have on common sensible Ideas; and how those, which are made use of to stand for...from sense, have their rise from thence, and from ohvious sensible Ideas are transferred to more abstruse significations, and are made to stand for Ideas...
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The Resonance of Emptiness: A Buddhist Inspiration for a Contemporary ...

Gay Watson - Psychology - 1998 - 340 pages
...as the eighteenth century when John Locke stated: "sensible ideas are transferred to more abstract significations, and made to stand for ideas that come not under the cognizance of the senses."85 Imagination as shown by Johnson is the relation between the prelinguistic and the spoken,...
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Impartial Stranger: History and Intertextuality in Gibbon's Decline and Fall ...

Peter Cosgrove - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 300 pages
...Notions and Knowledge, if we remark, how great a dependence our words have on common sensible Ideas: and how those, which are made use of to stand for...are transferred to more abstruse significations." 22 The great foliage of conceptual clarity rests on the sure-rootedness of the tree in the ground of...
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Regularitäten des semantischen Wandels bei Wahrnehmungsverben des Deutschen

Volker Harm - German language - 2000 - 252 pages
...notions and knowledge, if we remark how great a dependence our words have on common sensible ideas; and how those, which are made use of to stand for...notions quite removed from sense, have their rise from thence."I0I Neu an der Generalisierung Traugotts ist lediglich, daß die Entwicklungsrichtung 'konkret'...
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Realism and Appearances: An Essay in Ontology

John W. Yolton - Philosophy - 2000 - 176 pages
...notes the link between ideas and words, but uses the term "notion" rather than "idea": sensible Ideas; and how those, which are made use of to stand for Actions and Notions quite removed from sense, how their rise from thence, and from obvious sensible Ideas are transfeered to more abstruse significations,...
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The Cambridge History of the English Language, Volume 3

Richard M. Hogg, Norman Francis Blake, Roger Lass, R. W. Burchfield - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1992 - 812 pages
...Notions and Knowledge, if we remark, how great a dependence our Words have on common sensible Ideas; and how those, which are made use of to stand for...that come not under the cognizance of our senses: eg to Imagine, Apprehend, Comprehend, Adhere, Conceive, Instil, Disgust, Disturbance, Tranquillity,...
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