 When the understanding is once stored with these simple ideas, it has the power to repeat, compare, and unite them, even to an almost infinite variety, and so can make at pleasure new complex ideas. But it is not in the power of the most exalted wit or...  The Principles of Psychology - Page 6by William James - 1908Full view - About this book
 | John Locke - 1805 - 554 pages
...unite them, even to an almost infinite variety ; and so can make at pleasure new complex ideas. But it is not in the power of the most exalted wit, or enlarged understanding, by any quickness or variety of thought, to invent or frame one new simple idea in the mind, not taken in by the ways aforementioned... | |
 | John Locke - 1805 - 562 pages
...unite them, even to an almost infinite variety; and go can make at pleasure new complex ideas. 13ut it is not in the power of the most exalted wit, or enlarged understanding, by any quickness or variety of thought, to invent or frame one new simple idea in the mind, not taken in by the ways aforementioned... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1811 - 590 pages
...them, even to an almost infinite variety, and so " can make at pleasure new complex ideas. — But it is not " in the power of the most exalted wit, or enlarged un" derstanding, by any quickness or variety of thoughts, " to invent or frame one new simple idea... | |
 | James Fishback - 1813 - 326 pages
...unite them, even to an almost infinite variety, and so can make, at pleasure, new complex ideas. But it is not in the power of the most exalted wit, or enlarged understanding, by any quickness or va iety of thoughts, to invent or frame one new simple idea in the mind, not taken in by the ways before... | |
 | John Locke - 1813 - 518 pages
...accidents should subsist by themiclvei."cty ; and so can make at pleasure new complex ideas. But it is not in the power of the most exalted wit, or enlarged understand, ing, by any quickness or variety of thought, to invent or frame one new simple idea in... | |
 | John Locke - 1815 - 454 pages
...unite them, even to an almost infinite variety; and so can make at pleasure new complex ideas. But it is not in the power of the most exalted wit, or enlarged understanding, by any quickness or variety of thought, to invent or frame one new simple idea in the mind, not taken in by the ways afore-mentioned... | |
 | John Locke - 1823 - 380 pages
...unite them, even to an almost infinite variety; and so can make at pleasure new complex ideas. But it is not in the power of the most exalted wit or enlarged understanding, by any quickness or variety of thought, to invent or frame one new simple idea in the mind, not taken in by the words : " If the idea... | |
 | John Locke - 1824 - 552 pages
...unite them, even to an almost infinite variety ; and so can make at pleasure new complex ideas. But it is not in the power of the most exalted wit, or enlarged understanding, by any quickness or variety of thought, to invent or frame one new simple idea in the mind, not taken in by the ways aforementioned... | |
 | John Locke - 1824 - 702 pages
...unite them, even to an almost infinite variety; and so can make at pleasure new complex ideas. But it is not in the power of the most exalted wit, or enlarged understanding, by any quickness or variety ilance comes in by sensation and reflection ; or that it is a simple idea of sensation or reflection,... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1827 - 706 pages
...them even to an almost infinite variety, and so can make at pleasure new complex ideas : but that it is not in the power of the most exalted wit, or enlarged understanding, by any quickness or variety of thought, to invent or frame one new simple idea in the mind, not taken in by the two ways before mentioned... | |
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