 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
 | Peter Alexander - Science - 1985 - 362 pages
...'Tis 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...conformity between our Ideas and the reality of Things. (IV.iv.3) He already hints at the problems by using the word 'intervention'. He immediately goes on... | |
 | Edward Stillingfleet - Antitrinitarianism - 414 pages
...all that I can fee, the hopes of any Criterion is quite loft, as to the Point in Queftion : How (hall the mind when it perceives nothing but its own Ideas, know that they agree with the things them' jclves ? For upon thefe Grounds we can have no Certainty as to fimple Ideas, but only... | |
 | Martin J. Packer, Richard B. Addison - Psychology - 1989 - 340 pages
...the intervention of the ideas it has of them. Our knowledge therefore is real only so far as there is conformity between our ideas and the reality of things....ideas, know that they agree with things themselves? (Locke 1690/1975). Locke tried to finesse his way out of this problem with an unconvincing appeal to... | |
 | Robert K. C. Forman - Religion - 1997 - 322 pages
...in the cog/to. Locke, using the metaphor of knowledge as a representation of reality, proclaims that "[o]ur knowledge, therefore, is real only so far as...a conformity between our ideas and the reality of things."34 Among the philosophers taken as central by the tradition prior to Kant, there thus seems... | |
 | Dewey J. Hoitenga - Religion - 1991 - 288 pages
...understanding when it thinks" (Introduction, 8) and perception as having ideas (II, 1, 9), he asks, "How shall the mind, when it perceives nothing but...ideas, know that they agree with things themselves?" (IV, 4, 3) The answer is obvious: the mind cannot know such an agreement, for the simple reason that... | |
 | Michael Ayers - Philosophy - 1993 - 708 pages
...'Tis 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...but its own Ideas, know that they agree with Things themselves?62 That the question was not put in any spirit of perplexity is shown by Locke's clear,... | |
 | James Conniff - Political Science - 1994 - 384 pages
...knowledge left a large barrier in the path of the search for absolute truth. As Locke, himself, asked: "how shall the mind, when it perceives nothing but...ideas, know that they agree with things themselves?" 8 Locke admitted in a number of places that we cannot know if our sensations accurately mirror the... | |
 | Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka - Philosophy - 1994 - 328 pages
...‘Tis 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...Ideas, know that they agree with Things themselves? (IV, iv, 3) And he answers this question in the following way: [I] think there be two sorts of Ideas,... | |
 | Nicholas Wolterstorff - Philosophy - 1996 - 276 pages
..."'Tis 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...conformity between our ideas and the reality of things." From this passage it would appear that one's knowledge can be real without one's being sure that it... | |
 | Richard Eldridge - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 320 pages
...irrepudiably reliable judgments about the reality of things apart from the mind. Our knowledge ... is real only so far as there is a conformity between...This, though it seems not to want difficulty, yet, 1 think, there be two sorts of ideas that we may be assured agree with things. First, the first are... | |
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