 These simple ideas, when offered to the mind, the understanding can no more refuse to have, nor alter, when they are imprinted, nor blot them out, and make new ones itself, than a mirror can refuse, alter, or obliterate the images or ideas which the objects...  An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - Page 92by John Locke - 1805 - 510 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Lior Zemer - Philosophy - 2007 - 304 pages
...senses) (ii) ideas of reflection These simple Ideas, when offered to the mind, the Understanding can no more refuse to have, nor alter when they are imprinted,...therein produce. As the Bodies that surround us, do diversely affect our organs, the mind is forced to receive the impressions; and cannot avoid the Perception... | |
 | Jonathan Eric Adler, Catherine Z. Elgin - Philosophy - 2007 - 897 pages
...what he does, when he thinks. These simple ideas, when offered to the mind, the understanding can no more refuse to have, nor alter, when they are imprinted, nor blot them out, and make new ones in itself, than a mirror can refuse, alter, or obliterate the images or ideas, which, the objects set... | |
 | Philip Vogt - Philosophy - 2008 - 222 pages
...Mirror and the Lamp, 57-58. 38. These simple Ideas, when offered to the mind, the Understanding can no more refuse to have, nor alter, when they are imprinted, nor blot them out, and make new ones in it self, than a mirror can refuse, alter, or obliterate the Images or Ideas, which, the Objects... | |
 | Education - 1830 - 550 pages
...what he does when he thinks. These simple ideas, when offered to the mind, the understanding can no more refuse to have, nor alter, when they are imprinted,...mirror can refuse, alter, or obliterate the images or idras which the objects set before it, do therein produce. As the bodies that surround us, do diversely... | |
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