 ... the brain ; but, that he never supposed it to have an existence apart from the mental energy of which it is the object. Locke, he asserts, like Arnauld, considered the idea perceived and the percipient act, to constitute the same indivisible modification...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 1891831Full view - About this book
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1872 - 590 pages
...act to constitute the game indivisible modification of the conscious mind. This we shall consider. In his language, Locke is, of all philosophers, the...vacillating, various, and even contradictory ; as hus been noticed by Reid and Stewart, and Brown himself, — indeed, we believe, by every philosopher... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1872 - 578 pages
...philosophers, the most figurative, ambiguous, vacillating, various, and even contradictory; as hus been noticed by Reid and Stewart, and Brown himself, — indeed, we believe, by every philosopher who has had occasion to animadvert on Locke. The opinions of such a writer are not, therefore,... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1885 - 530 pages
...his terms, and that he uses the same word with different meanings. Sir William Hamilton says : — " Locke is of all philosophers the most figurative,...ambiguous, vacillating, various, and even contradictory." The following is an extract from his little book on The Conduct of the Understanding, which was published... | |
 | John Locke - 1890 - 240 pages
...severe rebuke. Thus, to give but one instance, we find Sir William Hamilton speaking as follows:* — "In his language, Locke is, of all philosophers, the...ambiguous, vacillating, various, and even contradictory" — an opinion, which, coming from so distinguished a quarter, is not to be lightly esteemed. At the... | |
 | 216 pages
...dispute, and the following are the words with which he opens the consideration of the question : — " In his language, Locke is, of all Philosophers, the...who has had occasion to comment on this Philosopher. Thus, on the matter under discussion, though really distinguishing, Locke verbally confounds, the objects... | |
 | Jules David Law - 1993 - 282 pages
..."experience" as a paradoxical structure of attention and inattention. Locke's Grammar of Reflection In his language, Locke is, of all philosophers, the...ambiguous, vacillating, various, and even contradictory;. . . The opinions of such a writer are not, therefore, to be assumed from isolated and casual expressions,... | |
 | John Locke - 1988 - 328 pages
...William Hamilton (quoted in a good article on Locke in Edinburgh Review, vol. 99, April 1854) says: "Locke is of all philosophers the most figurative,...ambiguous, vacillating, various and even contradictory." To hear Locke spoken of as an ambiguous writer, is to say the 1 Take the following passage in proof... | |
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