Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless... An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - Page 73by John Locke - 1805 - 510 pagesFull view - About this book
| Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...void of all characters, without any ideas ; how comes it to be furnished 1 Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy and boundless fancy of...Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge 1 To this I answer, in one word, from experience ; in that all our knowledge is founded, and from that... | |
| Robert Demaus - English literature - 1860 - 580 pages
...void of all characters, without any ideas ; how comes it to be furnished .' Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy and boundless fancy of...has painted on it, with an almost endless variety I Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge 1 To this I answer, in one word, from experience... | |
| William Fleming - Philosophy - 1860 - 710 pages
...has assigned experience as the only and universal source of human knowledge. "Whence hath the mind all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from experience; in that, all our knowledge is founded, and from that ultimately derives itself. Our observation, employed... | |
| William Fleming - Philosophy - 1860 - 912 pages
...has assigned experience as the only and universal source of human knowledge. "Whence hath the mind all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from expericnce; in that, all our knowledge is founded, and from that ultimately derives itself. Our observation,... | |
| Homeopathic Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania - 1867 - 702 pages
...Locke, another celebrated philosopher, expressed himself as follows: "Whence comes the mind by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy of man...has painted on it, with an almost endless variety? I answer, in a word, from experience. In this, all knowledge is founded ; from this the whole emanates... | |
| English language - 1871 - 630 pages
...must be taken as axioms, being incapable of further analysis. " Whence comes it (the mind) by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy of man...variety ? whence has it all the materials of reason anil knowledge ? To this I answer in one word, from experience ; on that all our knowledge is founded,... | |
| David Nasmith - Constitutional history - 1873 - 552 pages
...comes it 1 Human Understanding, Book iv., ch. 3, ยง 22. B to be furnished ? Whence comes it by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy of man...To this I answer in one word, from experience ; in that all our knowledge is founded; and from that it ultimately derives itself.'1 Is it foolish to ask... | |
| John Bascom - English literature - 1893 - 458 pages
...characters, without any ideas ; how comes it to be furnished ? Whence comes it by that vast storehouse, which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted...To this I answer in one word, from experience ; in that all our knowledge is founded, and from that it ultimately derives 'tself. Our observation, employed... | |
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