 I can discover, are the windows by which light is let into this dark room; for methinks the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly shut from light, with only some little openings left to let in external visible resemblances, or ideas of things...  Elements of the philosophy of the human mind - Page 50by Dugald Stewart - 1829Full view - About this book
 | John Locke - 1805 - 554 pages
...as far as I can discover, are the windows by which, light is let into 'this- dark room: for methinks the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly...ideas of things without : would the pictures coming -jnto such a dark rooi& but stay there, and lie so orderly as to be found upon occasion, it would very... | |
 | John Locke - 1805 - 562 pages
...alone as far as I can discover, are the windows by which light is let into this dark room: for methinks the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly...resemblances, or ideas of things without: would the pictures coining into sucli a dark room but stay there, and lie so orderly Darkroom §• ^7- I pretend not... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1811 - 590 pages
...far as I -' can discover, are the windows by which light is let into " this dark room. For methinks the understanding is not " much unlike a closet, wholly shut from light, with only " some little openings left, to let in external visible re" semblances, or ideas of things without; would the pic"... | |
 | John Locke - 1813 - 518 pages
...as far as I can discover, are the windows by which light is let into this dark rtom : for methinks the understanding is not much Unlike a closet wholly...stay there, and lie so orderly as to be found upon occasioni it would very much resemble the Understanding of a man, iu reference to all objects of sight,... | |
 | 1817 - 608 pages
...dark closet, into which the resemblances of outward existences were admitted through loop-holes; — ' would the pictures coming into such a dark room but...and lie so orderly as to be found upon occasion.'* The construction of such theories as these, is the • * On Human Understanding, B. II. c. 11. { 17.... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1816 - 644 pages
...far as I can discover, are " the windows by which light is let into this dark " room. For, methinks the understanding is not " much unlike a closet, wholly shut from light, with " only some little openings left, to let in external " visible resemblances, or ideas of things without. " Would the pictures... | |
 | Frederick Beasley - 1822 - 584 pages
...of the cave. " Methinks," says he, " the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly shut out from light, with only some little opening left to...things without. Would the pictures coming into such dark room but stay there, and lie so orderly as to be found upon occasion, it would very much resemble... | |
 | John Locke - 1824 - 702 pages
...as far as I can discover, are the windows by which light is let into this dark room: for, methinks, the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly...dark room but stay there, and lie so orderly as to to found upon occasion, it would very much resemble the underi standing- of a man, in reference to... | |
 | John Locke - 1824 - 606 pages
...as far as I can discover, are the windows by which light is let into this dark room : for methinks the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly...pictures coming into such a dark room but stay there s and lie so orderly as to be found upon occasion, it would very much resemble the understanding of... | |
 | Thomas Hancock - 1824 - 584 pages
...our knowledge is founded: and from that it ultimately derives itself." Book 2. Ch. i. '• Methinks, the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly...visible resemblances, or ideas of things without," Book 2. Ch. xii " Tbe great source of most of the ideas we have, depending wholly upon our senses,... | |
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