 | Henry Allon - Christianity - 1847 - 594 pages
...between our sensations and our mental faculties. The following is his definition of Sensation : — ' Our senses, conversant about particular sensible objects,...derived by them to the understanding, I call SENSATION.' — I. 34. This language is far enough from being the happiest that might have been chosen. But even... | |
 | Gustav Hartenstein - Philosophy - 1870 - 560 pages
...understanding rvith all the materials of thinking ... (j 3. This great source 'of most of the ideas rve have depending wholly upon our senses and derived by them to the understanding , I call Sensation. § 4. The other source . . . tho' it be no sense, äs having nothing to do with external objects, yet... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1877 - 504 pages
...them: And thus we come by those ideas we have of yellow, white, heat, cold, soft, hard, bitter, siveet, and all those which we call sensible qualities; which,...derived by them to the understanding, I call SENSATION. " Secondly, the other fountain from which experience furiiisheth the understanding with ideas, is the... | |
 | William Dexter Wilson - History - 1877 - 180 pages
...distinct perceptions of "things, . . thus we come by those ideas which we have of "yellow, white, etc., and all those which we call sensible qualities, which,...ideas we have, depending wholly upon our senses "and directed by them to the understanding, I call SENSATION." Sensation, therefore, is not, according to... | |
 | William Dexter Wilson - History - 1877 - 168 pages
...those ideas which we have of "yellow, white, etc., and all those which we call sensible qual" ities, which, when I say the senses convey into the mind,...ideas we have, depending wholly upon our senses "and directed by them to the understanding, I call SENSATION/' Sensation, therefore, is not, according to... | |
 | Robert Cleary - 1878 - 240 pages
...REFLECTION. What are the definitions of Sensation given by Locke ? — I. As a source of Ideas — " The great source of most of the ideas we have, depending...senses, and derived by them to the understanding." (Book II., chap. i., sect. 3.) II. As an organic affection — " Such an imfact be assumed as a fact... | |
 | John Locke - 1879 - 722 pages
...and thus wa come by those ideas we have of yellow, white, heat, cold, soft, hard, bitter, swec-t, nnd all those which we call sensible qualities ; which...by them to the understanding, I call, "sensation." 4i The operittioTU of our minds the other source of them.— Sc'condly. The other fountain, from which... | |
 | Joseph Angus - English literature - 1880 - 726 pages
...fountain of knowledge, from whence all the ideas we have, or can naturally have, do spring. 3. Firat, Our senses, conversant about particular sensible objects,...derived by them to the understanding, I call sensation. 4. Secondly, The other fountain, from which experience furnisheth the understanding with ideas, is... | |
 | William Dexter Wilson - Psychology - 1880 - 412 pages
..." mean, they, from external objects, convey into the mind what " produces there those percep'ions. This great source of most " of the ideas we have, depending wholly upon our senses " and directed by them to the understanding, I call SENSA' ' TION." Sensation, therefore, is not, according... | |
 | Biography - 1883 - 836 pages
...convey into the mind several distinct perceptions of things, according to those various ways in which those objects do affect them. And thus we come by...derived by them to the Understanding, I call SENSATION." " Secondly, the other Fountain, from which Experience furnisheth the Understanding with Ideas, is the... | |
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First, our senses, conversant about particular sensible objects, do convey into the mind several distinct perceptions of things, according to those various ways wherein those objects do affect them ; and thus we come by those ideas we have of yellow,... 
