 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
 | Jay William Hudson - 1911 - 150 pages
...which experience gradually writes its record. Or, again, it is a "dark room" says Locke: "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" (II, xi, § 17).... | |
 | University of Missouri - 1911 - 130 pages
...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" (II, xi, § 17). Complex ideas, ideas of Modes, Substance, Relation, may appear at first sight underivative... | |
 | James Seth - 1912 - 404 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 shut from light, with only some little openings left, to let in external visible resemblances, or ideas of things without : would the pictures... | |
 | Raymond Gregory - 1919 - 112 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...would the pictures coming into such a dark room but stay,there, and lie so orderly as to be found upon occasion, it would very much resemble the understanding... | |
 | John Locke - 1924 - 438 pages
...alone, as far as T~can discover; are the windows oy whfch light is let into this dark room. For methinks the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly...some little opening left to let in external visible 1 resemblances or ideas of things without : would the pictures coming into such a dark room but stay... | |
 | Lewis White Beck - 1966 - 332 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 shut from light, with only some little openings left, to let in external visible resemblances, or ideas of things without: would the pictures... | |
 | Walter J. Ong - 1967 - 828 pages
...alone, so 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... | |
 | Meyer Howard Abrams - 1971 - 420 pages
...internal senses are said to be 'the windows by which light is let into this darld room.' For, methinks, the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly shut from light, with only some litde openings left, to let in external visible resemblances, or ideas of things without: would the.... | |
 | John W. Yolton - 1984 - 262 pages
...sensation to "the windows by which light is let into this dark room" of the understanding. "For, methinks, the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly...visible resemblances, or ideas of things without." Comparing the eye to a camera obscura was standard in writings on optics. Robert Hooke remarks in his... | |
 | John W. Yolton - 1984 - 262 pages
...sensation to "the windows by which light is let into this dark room" of the understanding. "For, methinks, the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly...visible resemblances, or ideas of things without." Comparing the eye to a camera obscura was standard in writings on optics. Robert Hooke remarks in his... | |
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