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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 125
by John Locke - 1813
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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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An essay concerning human understanding; with Thoughts on the ..., Volume 3

John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1801 - 334 pages
...nothing elfe. § 3. Anfw. Notfo, where Ideas agree with Thirtgt. IT is evident, the mind knows not things immediately, but only by the intervention of...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...
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: With Thoughts on the Conduct of ...

John Locke - 1801 - 950 pages
...in nothing elfe. § 3. Anfw. Notfo, wbfre Ideas agree with Things. IT is evident, the mind knows not things immediately, but only by the intervention of the ideas it has of Chap. 4. Reality of Knowledge, 45 them. Our knowledge therefore is real, only fo far as there is a...
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Essays on the Powers of the Human Mind, Volume 2

Thomas Reid - Philosophy - 1803 - 676 pages
...given them the name of ideas. " It is evi" dent," fays Mr LOCKE, book 4. ch. 4. " the " mind knows not things immediately, but only " by the 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...
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Elements of Intellectual Philosophy: Or, An Analysis of the Powers of the ...

Robert Eden Scott - Cognition - 1805 - 524 pages
...others. ' — * It is evident, ' he fays again, * the mind knows not things imme* diately, * diately, but only by the intervention of the * ideas it has of them. ' Berkeley, indeed, infers the reality of ideas from this circumftance, that magnitude and figure,...
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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 Thomas Reid ...: With Account of His Life and Writings, Volume 3

Thomas Reid - Philosophy - 1815 - 434 pages
...them the name of ideas. « It is evident," says Mr. Locke, book 4. chapter 4. " the mind knows not things immediately, but only by the intervention of the ideas it has of them." And in the same paragraph he puts this question : " How shall the mind when it perccives nothing but...
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An essay concerning human understanding. Also, extr. from the author's works ...

John Locke - 1819 - 460 pages
...a man has, lies in nothing else. §• 3. It is evident the mind knows not things immediately, / jj but only by the intervention of the ideas it has of them. ^x Our knowledge therefore is real, only so far as there is a conformity between our ideas and the...
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Essay concerning human understanding (concluded) Defence of Mr. Locke's ...

John Locke - Coinage - 1824 - 530 pages
...certainty of general truths a man has, lies in nothing else. § 3. It is evident the mind knows not things immediately, but only by the intervention of...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
...certainty of general truths a man has, lies in nothing else. § 3. It is evident the mind knows not things immediately, but only by the intervention of...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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