 | John Morley - Authors, English - 1894 - 618 pages
...he compares the mind to " white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas," and then asks : " Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy...To this I answer in one word, from Experience* In that all our knowledge is founded ; and from that it ultimately derives itself. Our observation employed... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1894 - 692 pages
...3°™^°™ it to be furnished ? Whence comes it by that vast store °r Reflccwhich the busy^nd_boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the i Cf. Introd. § 8. It must be re- appear, and gradually multiply, in new membered that ' ideas,' as... | |
 | John Mackintosh - Scotland - 1895 - 486 pages
...Locke, in his Second Book, proceeded to show whence the understanding receives its ideas. He asks, " Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy...has painted on it, with an almost endless variety 1 Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge ? To this I answer in one word, from experience... | |
 | William De Witt Hyde - Idealism - 1897 - 364 pages
...suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished ? Whence comes it by that vast store...To this I answer in one word, from experience; in that all our knowledge is founded, and from that it ultimately derives itself. Our observation employed... | |
 | Jesse J. Prinz - Philosophy - 2004 - 372 pages
...her, this book would have been impossible. Desiderata on a Theory of Concepts How comes [the mind] to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store...knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from EXPERIENCE. Locke (1690, II.i.2) 1.1 Introduction Without concepts, there would be no thoughts. Concepts are the... | |
 | Phillip T. Slee - Education - 2002 - 548 pages
...suppose the mind to be, as we say white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store,...painted on it with an almost endless variety. Whence has all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer in one word; from experience: in that all... | |
 | Rom Harre - Medical - 2002 - 340 pages
...have in their minds several ideas ,..'. He asks how the mind is 'furnished' with ideas. Then he asks, 'Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy...has painted on it, with an almost endless variety.' In section 3 of that chapter he says, 'our senses . . . convey into the mind several distinct perceptions... | |
 | Anne Jordan, Neil Lockyer, Edwin Tate - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2002 - 246 pages
...paper void of all characters, without any ideas. How comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by the vast store which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted in it with almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this... | |
 | Steven Pinker - Psychology - 2003 - 532 pages
...suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper void of all characters, without any ideas. How comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store...and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from Locke was taking aim at theories of innate ideas in which people were thought to be born with mathematical... | |
 | Cordula Neis - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2003 - 680 pages
...suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas: - How comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store...has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? (Locke 1959: 121/122) Die Vorstellung des Geistes als ein leeres Blatt Papier impliziert jedoch nicht... | |
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Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless... 
