 | Peter Lunenfeld - 2001 - 262 pages
...wonders. In proposing the concept of the tabula rasa, seventeenth-century philosopher John Locke presented "the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas." He went on to ask, "How comes it to be furnished?"8 In a like manner, our technocultures, having built... | |
 | Anne Jordan, Neil Lockyer, Edwin Tate - 2002 - 246 pages
...appearance of an object does not exist independently of the observer: Let us suppose that the mind be, as we say, white paper void of all characters,...ideas. How comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by the vast store which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted in it with almost endless variety?... | |
 | Daniel E. Lee - 2002 - 164 pages
...Human Understanding is the assertion that knowledge is gained via experience. He argues, "Let us then suppose the Mind to be, as we say, white Paper, void...Characters, without any Ideas, How comes it to be furnished . . .? To this I answer, in one word. From Experience: In that, all our Knowledge is founded; and from... | |
 | Tapio Luoma - 2002 - 246 pages
...the sole basis for knowledge. Cf. Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, 33: "Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper void...characters, without any ideas. How comes it to be furnished? . . . To this I answer, in one word, from experience . . . ; in that all our knowledge is founded,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2002 - 666 pages
...thinkers who followed unexpressed implications, seem to attack Christian guarantees. But in conceiving "the Mind to be, as we say, white Paper, void of all Characters, without any Ideas", and to be furnished by "Experience",3™ Locke not only made the mind dependent on external reality... | |
 | Mary Midgley - 2002 - 426 pages
...himself had meant hy it merely that we are horn without knowledge: "Let us then suppose the mind to he, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to he furnished? ... To this I answer in one word, from EXPERIENCE; in that all our knowledge is founded."10... | |
 | Natalie Depraz, Francisco J. Varela, Pierre Vermersch - 2003 - 296 pages
...characterises the meaning conferred upon experience by the English philosophers of the 18th and 19th centuries. Let us suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper,...ideas: - How comes it to be furnished? (...) Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer in one word, from EXPERIENCE (Hume... | |
 | Diane P. Freedman, Olivia Frey - 2003 - 516 pages
...immutable, universal laws" (72). The perspective is based on the epistemology of John Locke: "Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas" (.pj. In this schema1 truths are objective, and we take them in, unmarked by our places or ourselves.... | |
 | Thomas Augst - 2003 - 334 pages
...Understanding (1690), it still retained its association with the process of imprinting, writing, and engraving: "Let us suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper void of characters." 12 Locke's theories of education and psychological development would develop the figurative... | |
 | Athanassios Raftopoulos - 2005 - 258 pages
...let in particular Ideas, and furnish the yet empty Cabinet" (Locke 1689, I, 1, §15) or "Let us then suppose the Mind to be, as we say, white Paper, void of all Characters, without any Ideas;" (II, 1, §2) On the other hand, the rationalists asked whether it is possible that the mind presents... | |
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Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from EXPERIENCE. 
