 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
 | John Morley - Authors, English - 1894 - 618 pages
...white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas," and then asks : " 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... | |
 | John Mackintosh - Scotland - 1895 - 486 pages
...Book, proceeded to show whence the understanding receives its ideas. He asks, " Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy and boundless fancy of...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
...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...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... | |
 | Edward John Hamilton - Perception - 1899 - 460 pages
...void of all characters, without any itkun ; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by th.at 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... | |
 | Michael Huemer - Philosophy - 2002 - 636 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...To this I answer, in one word, From Experience: In that, all our Knowledge is founded; and from that it ultimately derives it self. Our Observation employ'd... | |
 | Jesse J. Prinz - Philosophy - 2004 - 372 pages
...impossible. Desiderata on a Theory of Concepts How comes [the mind] to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy of man...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
...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...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
...ideas ,..'. He asks how the mind is 'furnished' with ideas. Then he asks, 'Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy and boundless fancy of...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
...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...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... | |
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