 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 opening left, to let in external visible resemblances, or ideas of things...  Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind - Page 33by Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 490 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Locke - 1805 - 554 pages
...visible resemblances, or ideas of things without : would the pictures coming -jnto such a dark rooi& but stay there, and lie so orderly as to be found...understanding of a man, in reference to all objects of sight, aaid the ideas of them. These are my guesses concerning the means whereby the understanding comes to... | |
 | John Locke - 1805 - 562 pages
...dark room but stay there, and lie so orderly Darkroom §• ^7- I pretend not to teach, but to inas to be found upon occasion, it would very much Resemble...reference to all objects of sight, and the ideas of them. These are my guesses concerning the means whereby the understanding comes to have and retain simpld... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1811 - 590 pages
...let in external visible re" semblances, or ideas of things without; would the pic" tures coming into a dark room but stay there, and lie " so orderly as...very " much resemble the understanding of a man, in refer•' ence to all objects of sight, and the ideas of them."* I have been induced to multiply these... | |
 | 1817 - 608 pages
...resemblances of outward existences were admitted through loop-holes; — ' would the pictures coming into such a dark room but stay there, 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.... | |
 | John Locke - 1813 - 518 pages
...left, to let in external visible resemblances, or ideas of things without : would the pictures coming into such a dark room but 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,... | |
 | John Locke - 1815 - 454 pages
...left, to let in external visible resemblances, or ideas of things without: would the pictures coming into such a dark room but stay there, and lie so orderly...reference to all objects of sight, and the ideas of them. These are my guesses concerning the means whereby the understanding comes to have and retain simple'ideas,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1816 - 644 pages
...to let in external visible resem" blances, or ideas, of things without : Would the " pictures coming into such a dark room but stay " there, and lie so orderly as to be found upon oc" casion, it would very much resemble the under" standing of a man, in reference to all objects of... | |
 | John Locke - 1817 - 556 pages
...resemblances, or ideas of things without : would the pictures coming iuto such a dark room but stay there, ami lie so orderly as to be found upon occasion, it would...reference to all objects of sight, and the ideas of them. These are my guesses concerning the means whereby the understanding comes to have and retain simple... | |
 | Alexander Maxwell (bookseller.) - 1817 - 240 pages
...satisfaction can be derived from the perusal of all the controversies upon the subject of materi(8) " Plato's subterranean cave, and Mr. Locke's dark closet, may be applied with ease to all the systems of perception that have been invented : for they all suppose that we perceive not external objects immediately,... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1822 - 432 pages
...left, to let in external visible resemblances, or ideas of things without. Would the pictures coming into such a dark room .but stay there, and lie so...closet, may be applied with ease to all the systems of perception that have been invented ; for they all suppose that we perceive not external objects immediately,... | |
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