 | Noah Porter - 1873 - 730 pages
...mind knows not. things immediately, but only by the intervention of tlie Ideas it has of them. <>ur knowledge, therefore, is real only so far as there Is a conformity between our ideas and tho reality of tvii gs" (R iv. c. iv. < 3). This language seems at first to nscert aw plainly as possible... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1874 - 594 pages
...or what it is for the mind to know, Locke teaches by the following definition : "The miud knows not things immediately, but only by the intervention of...conformity between our ideas and the reality of things" (Essay, B. iv. e. iv. \ 3). Of the relation of these " ideas " to their correspondent qualities or... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1874 - 592 pages
...following definition : . "The mind knows not things immediately, but only by the intervention of tho ideas it has of them. Our knowledge, therefore, is...conformity between our ideas and the reality of things" (Essay, B. iv. c. iv. § 3). Of the relation of these "ideas" to thcir correspondent qualities or objects,... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1874 - 606 pages
...or what it is for the mind to know, Locke teaches by the following definition : " The mind knows not things immediately, but only by the intervention of...them. Our knowledge, therefore, is real only so far oa there is a conformity between our ideas and the reality of things" (Essay, B. iv. c. iv. $ 3). Of... | |
 | George Berkeley - 1874 - 436 pages
...ought to have said, to be consistent with himself, our inferences therefore as to things are correct only so far as there is a conformity between our ideas and the reality of things. Locke was too acute to fail to perceive the embarrassment of his position, but he was not acute enough... | |
 | George Berkeley - 1874 - 430 pages
...distinct admission that we have no immediate proper knowledge of the external world. ' The mind knows not things immediately, but only by the intervention of the ideas it has of them.' (iv. iv. 3.) This strictly taken means that we know only our ideas and infer the existence of things.... | |
 | Joseph Haven - 1876 - 434 pages
...object of our knowledge. " It is evident," he says, " that the mind knows not things immediately, but by the intervention of the ideas it has of them. Our...conformity between our ideas and the reality of things" (Book iv. chapter 4, §3). But how do we know whether there is such a conformity ? A most important... | |
 | Joseph Alden - 1876 - 312 pages
...12. immediately, but only by the intervention of the ideas it has of them. Our knowledge is therefore real, only so far as there is a conformity between...be here the criterion? How shall the mind, when it percei%res nothing but its own ideas, know that they agree with things themselves ? This, though it... | |
 | 1893 - 578 pages
...hypothesis.] A Seth — Epistemology in Locke and Kant. [Locke was right in holding that " the mind knows not things immediately, but only by the intervention of the ideas it has of them " . He was wrong in holding that "our knowledge is only conversant about ideas ". Professor Seth remarks... | |
 | John Locke - 1877 - 544 pages
...the certainty of general truths A man has lies in nothing else. 3. It is evident the mind knows not things immediately, but only by the intervention of...perceives nothing but its own ideas, know that they REALTTY OF KNOWLEDGE. 171 agree with things themselves 1 This, though it seems not to \ want difficulty,... | |
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It is evident the mind knows not things immediately, but only by the intervention of the ideas it has of them. Our knowledge, therefore, is real only so far as there is a conformity between our ideas and the reality of things. 
