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" 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 73
by John Locke - 1805 - 510 pages
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A class-book of English prose, with biogr. notices, explanatory notes and ...

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...
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The Prose and Prose Writers of Britain from Chaucer to Ruskin: With ...

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...
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The Vocabulary of Philosophy, Mental, Moral and Metaphysical: With ...

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...
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The Vocabulary of Philosophy, Mental, Moral, and Metaphysical: With ...

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,...
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Transactions of the ... Annual Session, Volumes 1-6

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...
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Synonyms Discriminated: A Complete Catalogue of Synonymous Words in the ...

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,...
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The Institutes of English Public Law: Embracing an Outline of General ...

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...
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Philosophy of English Literature: A Course of Lectures Delivered in the ...

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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The Unitarian Review and Religious Magazine, Volume 2

Charles Lowe, Henry Wilder Foote, John Hopkins Morison, Henry H. Barber, James De Normandie - Unitarianism - 1874 - 540 pages
...no hint or suggestion of any knowledge prior to experience. The mind is a blank. He then inquires, " Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge...To this I answer, in one word, from experience; in that all knowledge is founded, and from that it ultimately derives itself." He holds that experience...
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Unitarian Review and Religious Magazine, Volume 2

Charles Lowe, Henry Wilder Foote, John Hopkins Morison, Henry H. Barber, James De Normandie, Joseph Henry Allen - Unitarianism - 1874 - 532 pages
...no hint or suggestion of any knowledge prior to experience. The mind is a blank. He then inquires, " Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge...To this I answer, in one word, from experience; in that all knowledge is founded, and from that it ultimately derives itself." He holds that experience...
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