I call idca, and the power to produce any idea in our mind, I call quality of the subject wherein that power is. Thus a snowball having the power to produce in us the ideas of white, cold, and round, — the power to produce those ideas in us, as they... An introduction to mental philosophy - Page 8by sir George Ramsay (9th bart.) - 1853Full view - About this book
| John Locke - 1816 - 1048 pages
...Thus a snow-ball having the power to produce in us the ideas of white, cold, and round, the powers to produce those ideas in us, as they are in the snow-ball, 1 call qualities ; and as they are sensations or perceptions in our understandings, I call them ideas... | |
| John Locke - 1817 - 556 pages
...Thus a snow-ball having the power to produce in us the ideas of white, cold, and ' round, the powers to produce those ideas in us, as they are in the snow-ball, I call qualities; and as they are sensations or perception in our understandings, I call them ideas : which idxjas, if I speak of sometime^ as in th«... | |
| John Locke - Coinage - 1824 - 606 pages
...Thus a snow-ball having the power to produce in us the ideas of white, cold, and round, the powers to produce those ideas in us, as they are in the snow-ball,...understandings, I call them ideas : which ideas, if 1 speak of sometimes, as in the things themselves, I would be understood to mean those qualities in... | |
| John Locke - Coinage - 1824 - 606 pages
...produce in us the ideas of white, cold, and round, the powers to produce those ideas in us, as they arc in the snow-ball, I call qualities; and as they are...understandings, I call them ideas: which ideas, if 1 speak of sometimes, as in the things themselves, I would be understood to mean those qualities in... | |
| Thomas Reid - 1846 - 1080 pages
...Thii and some of the following strictures on Locke arc«ralher hypercritical.— H . [244-246] in ne, as they are in the snowball, I call qualities ; and,...or perceptions in our understandings, I call them ii/cas ; which ideas, if I speak of them sometimes as in the things themselves, I would be understood... | |
| JOHN MURRAY - 1852 - 786 pages
...is. Thus a snowball having the power to produce in us the ideas of white, cold, and round, the powers to produce those ideas in us as they are in the snowball,...perceptions in our Understandings, I call them ideas; [by] which ideas, if I speak of them sometimes as in the things themselves, I would be understood to... | |
| John Locke - Philosophy - 1854 - 560 pages
...Thus a snowball having the power to produce in us the ideas of white, cold, and round, the-ppwer_to produce those ideas in us, as they are in the snowball,...sensations or perceptions in our understandings, I call i them ideas ; which ideas, if I speak of sometimes as in the things themselves, I would be understood... | |
| John Locke - 1854 - 536 pages
...is. Thus a snowball having the power to produce in us the ideas of white, cold, and round, the powers to produce those ideas in us, as they are in the snowball, I call qualities ; and as they are sensations 01 perceptions in our understandings, I call them ideas; which ideas, if 1 Bpeak of sometimes as in... | |
| James McCosh - Philosophy - 1884 - 96 pages
...of the subject wherein that power is* Thus a snow-ball having the power to produce in us the ideas of white, cold, and round, the power to produce those...they are in the snow-ball I call qualities ; " and then he speaks of primary and secondary qualities (II., 8). But by what logical pro- cess can he reach... | |
| Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison - Philosophy, German - 1885 - 264 pages
...adds, " a snowball having the power to produce in us the ideas of white, cold, and round, the powers to produce those ideas in us, as they are in the snowball,...perceptions in our understandings, I call them ' ideas.' " 2 Strictly speaking, however, we have no knowledge of the qualities as qualities ; we merely infer... | |
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