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 | John Locke - 1805 - 554 pages
...These alone as far as I can discover, are the windows by which, light is let into 'this- dark room: for methinks the understanding is not much unlike a closet...ideas of things without : would the pictures coming -jnto such a dark rooi& but stay there, and lie so orderly as to be found upon occasion, it would very... | |
 | John Locke - 1805 - 562 pages
...These alone as far as I can discover, are the windows by which light is let into this dark room: for methinks the understanding is not much unlike a closet...resemblances, or ideas of things without: would the pictures coining into sucli a dark room but stay there, and lie so orderly Darkroom §• ^7- I pretend not... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1811 - 590 pages
...alone, as far as I -' can discover, are the windows by which light is let into " this dark room. 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 re" semblances, or ideas of things without; would the pic"... | |
 | John Locke - 1813 - 518 pages
...These alone, as far as I can discover, are the windows by which light is let into this dark rtom : for methinks the understanding is not much Unlike a closet...dark room but stay there, and lie so orderly as to be found upon occasioni it would very much resemble the Understanding of a man, iu reference to all... | |
 | 1817 - 608 pages
...dark closet, into which the resemblances of outward existences were admitted through loop-holes; — ' would the pictures coming into such a dark room but stay there, and lie so orderly as to be found upon occasion.'* The construction of such theories as these, is the • * On Human Understanding,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1814 - 528 pages
...external objects, by a similitude " very much resembling that of the cave. — " Methinks," says he, " the understanding is not much unlike a closet, " wholly...dark " room but stay there, and lie so orderly as to be found " upon occasion, it would very much resemble the under'," standing of a man, in reference... | |
 | John Locke - 1815 - 454 pages
...These alone, as far as I can discover, are the windows by which light is let into this dark room; for methinks the understanding is not much unlike a closet...dark room but stay there, and lie so orderly as to be found upon occasion, it would very much resemble the understanding of a man, in reference to all... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1816 - 644 pages
...alone, as far as I can discover, are " the windows by which light is let into this dark " room. 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... | |
 | John Locke - 1819 - 518 pages
...as far as I can discover, are the windows by which light is let into this dark room ; for methiuks the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly...dark room but stay there, and lie so orderly as to be found upon occasion, it would very much resemble the understanding of a man, in reference to all... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1821 - 706 pages
...understanding is not much un•' like a closet, wholly shut from light, with only some little open" ing left, to let in external visible resemblances or ideas...dark room but " stay there, and lie so orderly as to be found upon occasion, it would '• very much resemble the understanding of a man, in reference to... | |
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