 ... produced in us only by different degrees and modes of motion in our animal spirits, variously agitated by external objects, the abatement of any former motion must as necessarily produce a new sensation as the variation or increase of it; and so introduce...  An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - Page 106by John Locke - 1805 - 510 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Locke - 1824 - 552 pages
...in some cases at least, produce a positive idea, viz. that all sensation being produced in us only by different degrees and modes of motion in our animal...different motion of the animal spirits in that organ. ^ 5. But whether this be so or no, I will not here determine, but appeal to every one's own experience,... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - 1824 - 218 pages
...that positive ideas may arise from privative causes, because " all sensation being produced in us only by different degrees and modes of motion in our animal...new sensation, as the variation or increase of it." Here it is supposed that " a new sensation" is a " positive idea," and also that " the variation or... | |
 | James Rennie (surgeon.) - Singing - 1825 - 512 pages
...something in the manner in which Locke observes, that " positive ideas are produced from privative causes. The abatement of any former motion must as necessarily...new sensation, as the variation or increase of it." But though the sound is to be interrupted in these pauses, the gesture and countenance must express... | |
 | Thomas Reid - Act (Philosophy). - 1827 - 706 pages
...its own ideas. With regard to our sensations, the mind is passive, " they being produced in us only by different degrees and modes of motion in our animal spirits, variously agitated by external objects :" These, however, cease to be, as soon as they cease to be perceived ; but by the faculties of memory... | |
 | John Locke - 1828 - 392 pages
...in some cases at least, produce a positive idea, viz. that all sensation being produced in us only by different degrees and modes of motion in our animal...different motion of the animal spirits in that organ. § .5. But whether this be so or no, I will not here determine, but appeal to every one's own experience,... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1828 - 602 pages
...some cases at least, produce a positive idea ; viz., that all sensation being produced in us, only by different degrees and modes of motion in our animal...different motion of the animal spirits in that organ. § 5. But whether this be so, or no, I will not here determine, but appeal to every one's own experience,... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1828 - 390 pages
...in some cases at least, produce a positive idea, viz. that all sensation being produced in us only by different degrees and modes of motion in our animal...different motion of the animal spirits in that organ. § 5. But whether this be so or no, I will not here determine, but appeal to every one's own experience,... | |
 | James Mill - Psychology - 1829 - 328 pages
...privative cause might produce a positive idea; viz., that, all sensation being produced in us, only by different degrees and modes of motion in our animal spirits, variously agitated by external objects,—the abatement of any former motion, must as necessarily produce a new sensation, [for "... | |
 | James Mill - Psychology - 1829 - 334 pages
...particular sensation ; and for " new sensation," read, new feeling, or, new state of consciousness,] as the variation or increase of it: and so introduce a new idea." B. II. ch. viii. s. 4. " Absent " was such a word. " Absent," standing by itself, and unrestricted... | |
 | John Locke - 1831 - 458 pages
...reason why a privative cause may produce a positive idea: — that all sensation being produced in us by different degrees and modes of motion in our animal...any former motion must as necessarily produce a new idea as the variation or increase of it. Does not the shadow of a man, which is but the absence of... | |
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