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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. "
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - Page 127
by John Locke - 1805 - 510 pages
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The Works of John Locke, Esq, Volume 1

John Locke - Philosophy - 1722 - 640 pages
...interventi°n °f *hc Ideas it has of them. Our Knowledg therefore is real, only rasa f0far as tnere js a Conformity between our Ideas and the Reality of Things. But what (hall be here the Criterion ? How (hall the Mind, when it perceives nothing but its own Ideas, know...
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The works of John Locke. To which is added the life of the author ..., Volume 1

John Locke - 1801 - 398 pages
...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...ideas, know that they agree with things themselves r This, though it seems not to want difficulty, yet, I think, there be two sorts of ideas, that, we...
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An essay concerning human understanding; with Thoughts on the ..., Volume 3

John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1801 - 334 pages
...but only by the intervention of the ideas it has of them. Our knowledge therefore is real, only fo far as there is a conformity between our ideas and the reality of things. But what fhall be here the criterion ? How lhall the mind, w-hen it perceives nothing but its own ideas, know...
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Essays on the Powers of the Human Mind, Volume 2

Thomas Reid - Philosophy - 1803 - 676 pages
...intervention of the ideas it has of " them." And in the fame paragraph he puts this queftion : " How mall the mind, when it " perceives nothing but its own ideas, know " that they agree with things themfelves ?" This theory I have already confidered, in treating of perception, of memory, and of conception....
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An Analytical Abridgment of Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding

John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1808 - 346 pages
...things immediately, but only by the intervention of its ideas : our knowledge therefore is only real, so far as there is a conformity between our ideas and the reality of things. The difficulty then is to find the criterion of this conformity ; since the mind perceives nothing...
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The Works of John Locke, Volume 2

John Locke - Philosophy - 1823 - 444 pages
...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...ideas, know that they agree with things themselves 1 This, though it seems not to want difficulty, yet, I think, there be two sorts of ideas, that, we...
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Essay concerning human understanding (concluded) Defence of Mr. Locke's ...

John Locke - Coinage - 1824 - 530 pages
...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...criterion ? How shall the mind, when it perceives nothing butitsown ideas, know that they agree with things themselves ? This, though it seems not to want difficulty,...
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An essay concerning human understanding. To which are now added, i. analysis ...

John Locke - 1824 - 518 pages
...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...our ideas and the reality of things. But what shall lie here the criterion ? How shall the mind, when it perceives nothing butitsown ideas, know that they...
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Essays on the Powers of the Human Mind: To which are Added, An Essay on ...

Thomas Reid - Act (Philosophy). - 1827 - 706 pages
...the intervention of the ideas it has of them." And in the same paragraph he puts this question : " How shall the mind, when it perceives nothing but...know that they agree with things themselves?" This theory I have already considered, in treating of perception, of memory, and of conception. The reader...
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Handbuch der allgemeinen Geschichte der Philosophie für alle ..., Volume 2

Ernst Reinhold - 1829 - 612 pages
...evident-j the mind knows not things immediately, but only by the in 1er ven lion of íhe ideas it has of them. Our knowledge therefore is real, only so...conformity between our ideas and the reality of things. aj 1. c. $. 4. Simple ideas are not fictions of our fancies, i Stoeítené fann bie jur Minutât ber...
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