...harmony, utility ; and since the maxim of their philosophy is, nihil est in intellectu, quod nonfuit prius in sensu, there is nothing in the intellect, which was not first in the senses ; virtue, according to them, is a thing altogether outward and artificial, a matter of mere...

...harmony, utility ; and since the maxim of their philosophy is, nihil est in intellectu, quod nonfuit prius in sensu, there is nothing in the intellect, which was not first in the senses ; virtue, according to them, is a thing altogether outward and artificial, a matter of mere...

...forms or ways of conceiving. This is what Leibnitz meant, when to the old adage of the Peripatetics, Nihil in intellectu quod non prius in sensu — there is nothing in the understanding not derived from the senses, or — there is nothing conceived that was not previously...

...or ways of conceiving. This is what Leibnitz meant, when to the old adage of the Peripatetics, NihU in intellectu quod non prius in sensu, (There is nothing in the understanding not derived from the senses, or— There is nothing conceived that was not previously...

...remanded the speculations of Plato , Bruno and Spinoza to the realms of cloudland. His famous con.clusion, nihil in intellectu quod non prius in sensu ("there...is nothing in the intellect which was not first in the sense"), seemed to set aside any possible faculty for apprehending the absolutely true, and to...

...influences of materialism to be referred to Kant and Sir WR Hamilton, and to the answer of Leibnitz, " That there is nothing in the intellect which was not first in sensation except the intellect itself." The same is our true position towards the foundation of the spiritual life,...

...critical faculty. This is the order of Nature. The child first perceives through the senses. Nihil est in intellectu quod non prius in sensu [There is nothing in the mind that was not first in the senses]. These perceptions are stored in the memory, and called up by...

...forms, or ways of conceiving. This is what Leibnitz meant, when to the old adage of the Peripatetics, Nihil in intellectu quod non prius in sensu (There is nothing in the Understanding not derived from the Senses, or — There is nothing conceived that was not previously...

...great educational reformer of the seventeenth century, gave lasting currency to the apothegm, Nihil est in intellectu quod non prius in sensu, "There is nothing in the mind which was not first in the senses." This declaration, true in an important sense, has been more...

...starting-point for Aristotle is the realistic principle, nihil est in intellect™ quod non prius fuerit in sensu — there is nothing in the intellect which was not first in the senses. Though he scale the empyrean of metaphysical speculation, he always has his feet on solid...