 It is evident the mind knows not things immediately, but only by the intervention of the ideas it has of them. Our knowledge therefore is real only so far as there is a conformity between our ideas and the reality of things.  An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - Page 127by John Locke - 1805 - 510 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alfred Weber - Philosophy - 1896 - 650 pages
...other things by sensation. It is true, we do not know them immediately, and consequently our knowledge is real only so far as there is a conformity between our ideas and the reality of things.1 But we are not absolutely without a criterion for knowing whether our ideas agree with the... | |
 | Alfred Weber - Philosophy - 1904 - 652 pages
...other things by sensation. It is true, we do not know them immediately, and consequently our knowledge is real only so far as there is a conformity between our ideas anl the reality of things.1 But we are not absolutely without a criterion for knowing whether our ideas... | |
 | John Watson - Philosophy - 1898 - 526 pages
...by the introduction of the ideas it has of them";2 for, on this view, knowledge is possible only if there is a "conformity between our ideas and the reality of things." As Locke himself puts it : " How shall the mind, when it perceives nothing but its own ideas, know... | |
 | Paul Janet, Gabriel Séailles - Philosophy - 1902 - 432 pages
...is evident the mind knows not things immediately, but only by the intervention of the ideas it has of them. Our knowledge therefore is real only so far...conformity between our ideas and the reality of things" (Bk. II, Ch. IV). How can we be sure of this conformity ? Sensible knowledge is neither a simple intuition... | |
 | William Knight - 1902 - 256 pages
...so far as there is a conformity between our ideas and the reality of things. But what shall here be the criterion? How shall the mind, when it perceives nothing but its own ideas, know that they nijrae with the things themselves ? " The sentence italicised embodies the fundamental position of... | |
 | James Macbride Sterrett - Idealism - 1904 - 136 pages
...ideas. Knowledge consisting thus of ideas, what can we have of reality ? He answers, ' ' Our knowledge is real only so far as there is a conformity between...our ideas and the reality of things. " " But what, ' ' he adds, ' ' shall here be our criterion ? How shall the mind, when it perceives only its own ideas,... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1905 - 382 pages
...is evident the mind knows not things immediately, but only by the intervention of the ideas it has of them. Our knowledge therefore is real only so far...I think there be two sorts of ideas that we may be 1 assured agree with things. 4. As, First, all simple ideas do. — First, The first are simple ideas,... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1905 - 424 pages
...evident the mind knows not things imme- ^ diately, but only by the intervention of the ideas it has of them. Our knowledge therefore is real only so far...but its own ideas, know that they agree with things them-,/ selves? This, though it seems not to want difficulty, yet I think there betj^P sorts'of ideas... | |
 | Henry Lee - 326 pages
...have, to be his Interpreters. III. However to go on in his way. He fays, Knowledge is real only fo far as there is a conformity between our ideas and the reality of things. But this very ™ iy hewrta conformity, I fay, is not difeoverable in any Cafe whatever meerly b) ideas.... | |
 | Thomas Reid, William Hamilton, Harry M. Bracken, Thomas Reid, Sir William Hamilton - Knowledge, Theory of - 1094 pages
...is evident the mind knows not things immediately, but only by the intervention of the ideas it has of "them. Our know-ledge, therefore, is real, only...shall the mind, when it perceives nothing but its own idea*, know that they agree with things themselves ? This, though it seems not to want difficulty,... | |
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