 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
 | Joachim Gessinger - 1994 - 824 sider
...vor. [...] 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 discover, are the Windows which light is let into this dark Room. For, methinks, the Understanding is not much unlike a Closet... | |
 | Aileen Douglas - 1995 - 244 sider
...Black and White" — is in keeping with the Essay's recurring images of enclosure and containment. The understanding is "not much unlike a Closet wholly shut from light" (163); it is as a "worm shut up in one drawer of a Cabinet" (120). Locke's localization of sensation... | |
 | Suren Lalvani - 1996 - 288 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... | |
 | Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz - 1996 - 528 sider
...of it. However, those who know him more intimately assure me that it is quite genuine. PHIL. §17. 'The understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly...some little openings left, to let in external visible [images] ;1 would the [images]2 coming into such a dark room but stay there, and lie so orderly as... | |
 | Beate Allert - 1996 - 292 sider
...there is a dispassionate and monadic "mind" examining images that transparent senses have "let in": "For, methinks, the understanding is not much unlike...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... | |
 | Patricia Carr Brückmann - 1997 - 204 sider
...furnish the yet empty Cabinet."56 But we are all in the dark, for, so far as he can tell, only sensations are "the Windows by which light is let into this dark Room. For, methinks, the Understanding is not so much unlike a Closet wholly shut from light, with only some little openings left, to let in external... | |
 | Z. Radman - 1996 - 208 sider
...camera obscura which gathers information from the external world through the use of light rays. [...] 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... | |
 | Lambros Kordelas - 1998 - 254 sider
...xii, 17: »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...discover, are the Windows by which light is let into this darkRoom. For, methinks. the Understanding is not much unlike a Closet wholly shut from light. with... | |
 | Michael Simpson - 1998 - 500 sider
...this syllogism, whereby the text is said to be read as well as written in the closet, goes like this: 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... | |
 | Amal Asfour, Dr Paul Williamson, Paul Williamson - 1999 - 360 sider
...from experience: 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 such a dark Room but stay... | |
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