 For methinks the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly shut from light, with only some little openings left to let in external visible resemblances or ideas of things without : [would the pictures coming into such a dark room but stay there,]...  Philosophical Essays - Side 77af Dugald Stewart - 1811 - 580 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | 1825 - 666 sider
...be judged very extravagant, if one should say otherwise." " Methinks," he says, in another place, " the understanding is not much unlike a closet, wholly...some little openings left, to let in external visible resemblances or ideas of things without ; would the pictures coming into a dark room but stay there,... | |
 | 1825 - 224 sider
...but that the mind is originally "like white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas," or, "not much unlike a closet wholly shut from light, with only some little opening left, to let in external visible resemblances, or ideas of things without;" and with Addison,... | |
 | 1826 - 570 sider
...substance of these reflections of Stewart ! With respect to the term itself, which Dr. Good has made the *"Methinks, the understanding is not much unlike a...closet, wholly shut from light, with only some little opening left to let in external visible resemblances or ideas of things without. Would the pictures... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1827 - 706 sider
...perceiving external objects, by a similitude very much resembling that of the cave. " Methinks," says he, " the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly shut from light, with only some little opening left, to let in external visible resemblances, or ideas of things without. Would the pictures... | |
 | John Locke - 1828 - 390 sider
...here again, that external and internal sensation are the only passages that I can find of knowledge to the understanding. These alone, as far as I can...closet wholly shut from light, with only some little opening left, to let in external visible resemblances, or ideas of things without : would the pictures... | |
 | John Locke - 1828 - 602 sider
...here again, that external and internal sensation are the only passages, that I can find, of knowledge to the understanding. These alone, as far as I can...closet wholly shut from light, with only some little opening left, to let in external visible resemblances, or ideas of things without : would the pictures... | |
 | John Locke - 1828 - 392 sider
...here again, that external and internal sensation are the only passages that I can find of knowledge to the understanding. These alone, as far as I can...closet wholly shut from light, with only some little opening left, to let in external visible resemblances, or ideas of things without : would the pictures... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 454 sider
...here again, that external and internal sensation are the only passages that I can find of knowledge to the understanding. These alone, as far as I can...some little openings left, to let in external visible resemblances, or ideas of things without; would the pictures coming into a dark room but stay there,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 450 sider
...here again, that external and internal sensation are the only passages that I can find of knowledge to the understanding. These alone, as far as I can...some little openings left, to let in external visible resemblances, or ideas of things without ; would the pictures coming into a dark room but stay there,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 482 sider
...external objects, by a similitude very much resembling that of the cave. — ' Methinks,' says he, ' the understanding is not much unlike a closet, wholly shut from light, with only some little opening left, to let in external visible resemblances or ideas of things without. Would the pictures... | |
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