 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...  An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - Page 73by John Locke - 1805 - 510 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James McCosh - Philosophy - 1887 - 340 pages
...be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas ; how comes it to be furnished? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge...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... | |
 | Justin Almerin Smith - Church history - 1887 - 382 pages
...experience,' he asserted a principle which, carried out in directions 6 " Whence has it [the mind] all the materials of Reason and Knowledge ? 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... | |
 | Thomas Case - Cognition - 1888 - 442 pages
...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...To this I answer in one word, from experience : in that, all our knowledge is founded ; and from that it ultimately derives itself. Our observations employed... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1890 - 240 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Charles John Smith - English language - 1890 - 802 pages
...analysis. "Whence comes it (the mind) by that vust store which the busy and boundless fancy of mnn hoi painted on it with an almost endless variety? whence...knowledge? To this I answer in one word, from experience ; on that all our knowledge is founded, and from that it ultimately derives itself." — LOCKE. CONCORD.... | |
 | William Fleming - Philosophy - 1890 - 458 pages
...i.) assigned experience as the only and universal source of human knowledge. " Whence hath the mind all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer in one word, from experience; in that all our knowledge is founded, and from that ultimately derives itself. Our observation, employed... | |
 | Josiah Royce - Philosophy, Modern - 1892 - 546 pages
...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...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... | |
 | James Fitzjames Stephen - Literature - 1892 - 440 pages
...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 variety ? To this I answer in one word, from Experience.' Under the head of Experience, however, Locke distinctly... | |
 | Noah Knowles Davis - 1892 - 376 pages
...the favorite text and formula of his followers. His doctrine he states as follows: " Whence hath mind all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer in one word, from experience; in that all our knowledge is founded, and from that ultimately derives itself. Our observation employed... | |
 | Charles John Smith - English language - 1893 - 796 pages
...must be taken as axiome, being incapable of further analysis. "Whence cornea it (the mind) by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy of man...knowledge? To this I answer in one word, from experience ; on that all our knowledge is founded, and from that it ultimately derives itself," —LOOKS. CONCORD.... | |
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