 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1805 - 554 pages
...visible resemblances, or ideas of things without : would the pictures coming -jnto such a dark rooi& but stay there, and lie so orderly as to be found upon...understanding of a man, in reference to all objects of sight, aaid the ideas of them. These are my guesses concerning the means whereby the understanding comes to... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1805 - 562 pages
...dark room but stay there, and lie so orderly Darkroom §• ^7- I pretend not to teach, but to inas to be found upon occasion, it would very much Resemble...reference to all objects of sight, and the ideas of them. These are my guesses concerning the means whereby the understanding comes to have and retain simpld... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Philosophy - 1811 - 590 pages
...visible re" semblances, or ideas of things without; would the pic" tures coming into a dark room but stay there, and lie " so orderly as to be found upon...very " much resemble the understanding of a man, in refer•' ence to all objects of sight, and the ideas of them."* I have been induced to multiply these... | |
 | 1817 - 608 pages
...existences were admitted through loop-holes; — ' would the pictures coming into such a dark room but stay there, and lie so orderly as to be found upon occasion.'* The construction of such theories as these, is the • * On Human Understanding, B. II. c. 11. { 17.... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Psychology - 1814 - 528 pages
...visible resemblances or ideas of things " without. 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 under'," standing of a man, in reference to all objects of sight, " and the ideas of them."* • "... | |
 | John Locke - 1815 - 454 pages
...visible resemblances, or ideas of things without: would the pictures coming into such a dark room but stay there, and lie so orderly as to be found upon...reference to all objects of sight, and the ideas of them. These are my guesses concerning the means whereby the understanding comes to have and retain simple'ideas,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Philosophy - 1816 - 644 pages
...visible resemblances, or ideas of things without. " Would the pictures coming into a dark room but " stay there, and lie so orderly as to be found upon " occasion, it would very much resemble the under" standing of a man, in reference to all objects of " sight, and the ideas of them." * I have... | |
 | John Locke - 1817 - 556 pages
...resemblances, or ideas of things without : would the pictures coming iuto such a dark room but stay there, ami lie so orderly as to be found upon occasion, it would...reference to all objects of sight, and the ideas of them. These are my guesses concerning the means whereby the understanding comes to have and retain simple... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Psychology - 1821 - 382 pages
...resemblances or ideas of things " without. Would the pictures coming into such a dark room but •' stay there, and lie so orderly as to be found upon...to " all objects of sight, and the ideas of them. "J " Plato's subterranean cave, and Mr. Locke's dark closet, may be " applied with ease to all the... | |
 | Thomas Reid - Philosophy - 1822 - 432 pages
...visible resemblances, or ideas of things without. Would the pictures coming into such a dark room .but stay there, and lie so orderly as to be found upon...reference to all objects of sight, and the ideas of them." Plato's subterranean cave, and Mr. Locke's dark closet, may be applied with ease to all the systems... | |
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For methinks the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly shut from light, with only some little opening left to let in external visible resemblances or ideas of things without: would the pictures coming into such a dark room but stay there, and... 
