 | John Richetti, John Bender, Deirdre David, Michael Seidel - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 1094 pages
...united in some Mens Minds, that 'tis very hard to separate them, they always keep in company, and this one no sooner at any time comes into the Understanding, but its Associate appears with it. Locke here is describing, as Sterne is narrating in the passage about his mother, peculiar associations,... | |
 | Edward Barrett, Marie Redmond - Computers - 1997 - 284 pages
...united in some men's minds that it is very hard to separate them, they always keep in company, and the one no sooner at any time comes into the understanding...gang, always inseparable, show themselves together. John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 2.33.5 (1690). 8. The new potential of the novel... | |
 | David Pierce, Peter Jan de Voogd - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 228 pages
...so united in men's minds that it is very hard to separate them; they always keep in company, and the one no sooner at any time comes into the understanding...gang always inseparable, show themselves together' (Locke, 1964: 250-1). The strategy that Hume offers us is 'custom'. We suspend our philosophical speculations... | |
 | Nicholas Wolterstorff - Philosophy - 1996 - 276 pages
...united in some men's minds, that 'tis very hard to separate them, they always keep in company, and the one no sooner at any time comes into the understanding...gang always inseparable show themselves together" (n,xxxiii,5). Locke's description of the injurious effects of custom on the mind rises to eloquence:... | |
 | Ian Cumming - Education - 1998 - 280 pages
...another connection of ideas wholly owing to chance or custom. Ideas always keep in company, and the one no sooner at any time comes into the understanding, but its associate appears with it. In his Leviathan3 Hobbes had observed that 'when a man thinketh on any thing whatsoever, His next Thought... | |
 | Charles Fox - Child psychology - 1999 - 404 pages
...in an individual mind that it is impossible to separate them. " They always keep in company, and the one no sooner at any time comes into the understanding,...are thus united, the whole gang, always inseparable, shew themselves together." • Such connection which varies from person to person is dependent on inclinations,... | |
 | Sang Hyun Lee - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 296 pages
...is very hard to separate them." These sorts of connections occur with automatic spontaneity, as "the one no sooner at any time comes into the understanding but its associate appears with it." Locke refers to the automatic power involved here as "custom" and the "habits of thinking," and further... | |
 | Raffaele Russo - Philosophy - 2001 - 280 pages
...united in some Mens Minds, that 'tis very hard to separate them, they always keep in company, and the one no sooner at any time comes into the Understanding...are thus united, the whole gang always inseparable shew themselves together", Essay, 2.33.5, P- 395)'n ("Custom settles habits of Thinking in the Understanding,... | |
 | Allardyce Nicoll - Drama - 2002 - 232 pages
...united in some men's minds, that it is very hard to separate them ; they always keep in company, and the one no sooner at any time comes into the understanding,...are thus united, the whole gang always inseparable shew themselves together. Whiter emphasizes that Locke's theory relates not to ideas which are naturally... | |
 | Simon Brittan - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2003 - 242 pages
...united in some Men's Minds, that 'tis very hard to separate them, they always keep in company, and the one no sooner at any time comes into the Understanding...are thus united, the whole gang always inseparable shew themselves together. (Essay 2.33.5) The "Chance or Custom" that determine the association of ideas... | |
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Besides this, there is another connexion of ideas wholly owing to chance or custom : ideas that in themselves are not at all of kin, come to be so united in some men's minds that it is very hard to separate them ; they always keep in company, and the... 
