 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
 | Donald A. Crosby - 1988 - 474 pages
...understanding as being "not unlike a closet wholly shut from light, with only some little openings left, to let in external visible resemblances, or ideas of things without —" These little openings or windows are the senses, and by them alone is some small amount of light... | |
 | Jocelyn Harris - 2003 - 288 pages
...enlightenment. Sensations, he argues, 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 ... (II.xi.17) 'Like... | |
 | M.T. Dalgarno, E.H. Matthews - 1989 - 508 pages
...internal entities and storage for them. This description is evident in the following passage from Locke: 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 picture... | |
 | Donald Preziosi - 1989 - 290 pages
...Forest Lawn recalls John Locke's description of the workings of the mind as a kind of camera obscura: "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... | |
 | H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson - 2005 - 978 pages
...the camera obscura as a model for the way in which such pictures are painted in the mind: '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'. The dominant metaphor... | |
 | S. Payne - 1990 - 274 pages
...internal and external senses "are the windows by which light is let into this dark room. For methinks the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly...visible resemblances, or ideas of things without" See Locke Essay Concerning Human Understanding II, 11, par. 17 (Yolton edition vol. 1, p. 129), and... | |
 | Jonathan Crary - 1992 - 190 pages
...1982), pp. 38—43. discover, are the windows by which light is let into this dark room. For, methinks, the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly...left ... to let in external visible resemblances, or some idea of things without; would the pictures coming into such a dark room but stay there and lie... | |
 | Simon Varey - 1990 - 240 pages
...in, a 'Cabinet' furnished with ideas by the senses, a 'dark Room' illuminated through windows, for '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'.100 Like the edifice... | |
 | Francis J. Broucek - 1991 - 190 pages
...as far as 1 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... | |
 | Michael Joseph Schuck - 1991 - 244 pages
...internal sensation" are the sole "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." John Locke, An Kssay Concerning... | |
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