 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 opening left, to let in external visible resemblances, or ideas of things...  Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind - Page 43by Dugald Stewart - 1821Full view - About this book
 | John Locke - 1805 - 554 pages
...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 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
...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 coining into sucli a dark room but stay there, and lie so orderly Darkroom §• ^7- I pretend not... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1811 - 590 pages
...understanding is >' not much unlike a closet, wholly shut up from light, with "only some little opening left, to let in external visible " resemblances, or..."•pictures coming into such a dark room but stay there, and -'tie so orderly as to be found upon occasion, it would very " much resemble the understanding of a... | |
 | John Locke - 1813 - 518 pages
...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...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 objects of sight,... | |
 | 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...and lie so orderly as to be found upon occasion.'* The construction of such theories as these, is the • * On Human Understanding, B. II. c. 11. { 17.... | |
 | John Locke - 1815 - 454 pages
...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...reference to all objects of sight, and the ideas of them. These are my guesses concerning the means whereby the understanding comes to have and retain... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1816 - 644 pages
...understanding is not " much unlike a closet, wholly shut from light, with " only some little openings left, to let in external " visible resemblances, or...of things without. " Would the pictures coming into a dark room but " stay there, and lie so orderly as to be found upon " occasion, it would very much... | |
 | John Locke - 1817 - 556 pages
...resemblances, or ideas of things without : would the pictures coming iuto such a dark room but stay there, ami lie so orderly as to be found upon occasion, it would...reference to all objects of sight, and the ideas of them. These are my guesses concerning the means whereby the understanding comes to have and retain... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1822 - 432 pages
...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...reference to all objects of sight, and the ideas of them." Plato's subterranean cave, and Mr. Locke's dark closet, may be applied with ease to all the... | |
 | Frederick Beasley - 1822 - 584 pages
...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...things without. Would the pictures coming into such dark room but stay there, and lie so orderly as to be found upon occasion, it would very much resemble... | |
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