...characters, without any ideas" (II. 1). He says that " external and internal sensation are the only passages that I can find of knowledge to the understanding....understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly shut out from light, with only some little opening left to let in external visible resemblances or ideas...

...characters, without any ideas" (II. 1). Pie says that " external and internal sensation are the only passages that I can find of knowledge to the understanding....windows by which light is let into this dark room ; for methiuks the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly shut out from light, with only some little...

...something is reported, something let in — and in the familiar comparison of the understanding to a ' closet, wholly shut from light, with only some...visible resemblances, or ideas, of things without.' (Book II. chap. xi. sec. 17.) Fe»ling 22. Phraseology of this kind, the standing heritage of the and...

...results of his introspection. Speaking of the senses he says : Locke II, 11:2. — "These alone * * are the windows by which light is let into this dark...visible resemblances, or ideas of things without." In this passage the figure used to express the whole process of the understanding is taken from the...

...introspection. Speaking of the senses he says : Lockt II, 11 :2. — "These alone " * are the icindows by which light is let into this dark room ; for methinks...visible resemblances, or ideas of things without." In this passage the figure used to express the whole process of the understanding is taken from the...

...inquire, and therefore cannot but confess here again, that external and internal sensation are the only passages that I can find of knowledge to the understanding. These alone, as far asT! can discover, are the window* by which light is let into this dark room; for methinks the understanding...

...of the Essay. This, in its Prolegomena and notes, is a mine of valuable and scholarly commentary. " Methinks the understanding is not much, unlike a closet...visible resemblances, or ideas of things without."» Upon this blankness, as upon fair wax, impressions are made, or into this vacancy, as into an empty...

...it is misused when taken as an equivalent to Locke's white paper or other sensualist similes. All " Methinks the understanding is not much unlike a closet...external visible resemblances, or ideas of things without."1 Upon this blankness, as upon fair wax, impressions are made, or into this vacancy, as into...

...inquire, and therefore cannot but confess here again, that external and internal sensation are the only passages that I can find of knowledge to the understanding....ideas of things without: would the pictures coming into such a dark room but stay there, and lie so orderly as to be found upon occasion, it would very...

...knowledge, from whence all the ideas we have, or can naturally have, do spring. . . . These alone, so far as I can discover, are the windows by which light is let into this dark room ; for metbiuks the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly shut from light, with only some little...