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" Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from EXPERIENCE; in that all our knowledge... "
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Volume 1

John Locke - 1796 - 556 pages
...from that if ultimately derives itfelf. Our obfervation em-> ployed either about external fenfible objects, or about the internal operations of our minds, perceived and reflected on by ourfelves, is that which fupplies -our uadcrftandings with all the materials of thinking, I wherein...
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding; with Thoughts on the ..., Volume 1

John Locke - 1801 - 340 pages
...almoft endlefs variety ? Whence has it all the materials of reafon and knowledge ? To this I anfwer, in one word, from experience; in that all our knowledge is founded, and from that it ultimately derives itfelf. Our obfervation employed either about external fenfible objects, or about the internal operations...
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: With Thoughts on the Conduct of ...

John Locke - 1801 - 950 pages
...almoft endlefs variety ? Whence has it all the materials of reafon and knowledge ? To this I anfwcr, in one word, from experience} in that all our knowledge is founded, and from that it ultimately derives itfelf. Our obfervation employed «ither about external fenjible objects, or about ike internal operations...
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Volume 1

John Locke - 1805 - 554 pages
...the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from experience; in all that our knowledge is founded, and from that it ultimately...reflected on by ourselves, is that which supplies our i with all the materials of thinking. These two are the fountains of knowledge, from whence all the...
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Elements of General Knowledge: Introductory to Useful Books in the ..., Volume 2

Henry Kett - 1805 - 340 pages
...from sensation or reflection ; or one complex idea, which is not com. posed of these original ones. " Our observation employed either about external sensible...understandings with all the materials of thinking. These two are the fountains of knowledge, from whence all the ideas we have, or can naturally have, do spring."...
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Elements of General Knowledge: Introductory to Useful Books in the ..., Volume 2

Henry Kett - 1805 - 340 pages
...from sensation or reflection ; or one complex idea, which is not com. posed of these original ones. " Our observation employed either about external sensible...understandings with all the materials of thinking. These two are the fountains of knowledge, from whence all the ideas we have, or can naturally have, do spring."...
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Volume 1

John Locke - 1805 - 562 pages
...ultimately derives itself. Our observation employed either about external sensible objects, or abottt^ the internal operations of our minds, perceived and...understandings with all the. materials of thinking. \. 1, T7* VERY man being conscious to him- id ca k tnc These two are the fountains of knowledge, from...
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Volume 1

John Locke - 1806 - 390 pages
...almoft endlefs variety ? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge ? To this I anfwer, in one word, from experience ; in that all our knowledge is founded, and from that it ultimately derives itfelf. Our obfervation employed either about external fenfible objects, or about the internal operations...
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An Analytical Abridgment of Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding

John Locke - 1808 - 346 pages
...ideas, or materials of thinking, from observation, employed either about external sensible oljects, or about the internal operations of our minds, perceived and reflected on by ourselves. Our Senses convey into the mind, from particular sensible objects, several distinct perceptions, that...
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Philosophical Essays

Dugald Stewart - 1811 - 590 pages
...endless variety? Whence has it all the " materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, " in a word, from experience. In that all our knowledge "...founded, and from that it ultimately derives itself."* In what sense this celebrated maxim ought to be understood, I shall endeavour to shew more particularly,...
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