 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
 | Sang Hyun Lee - 2000 - 296 pages
...sensory ideas (ie, simple ideas) can never be fabricated out of other ideas. Thus Locke held 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."" The sensation of beauty, for Edwards,... | |
 | Robert J. Maciunas - 2002 - 392 pages
...unite them, even to an infinite variety, and so can make at pleasure new complex ideas. But it is not 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.7"... | |
 | Frederick Copleston - 2003 - 452 pages
...the mind has these simple ideas it cannot alter or destroy them or substitute new ones at will. '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:... | |
 | Asa Mahan - 2003 - 493 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 mentioned: nor... | |
 | Paul Hyland, Olga Gomez, Francesca Greensides - 2003 - 496 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 before mentioned:... | |
 | Paul Hyland, Olga Gomez, Francesca Greensides - 2003 - 494 pages
...unite them, even to an ahuost infinite varietv, and so can make at pleasure new complex ideas. But it is not in the power of the most exalted wit, or enlarged understanding, hy am quickness or variety of thought, to invent or frame one new simple idea in the mind, not taken... | |
 | Saree Makdisi - 2003 - 432 pages
...organs of perception. Passive sensory perception, Locke argued, is the basis of all knowledge. "It is not in the Power of the most exalted wit, or enlarged Understanding," he writes, "to invent or frame one new simple Idea in the mind," not taken in by the perceptions through... | |
 | Jonathan Eric Adler, Catherine Z. Elgin - 2007 - 897 pages
...unite them even to an almost infinite variety, and so can make at pleasure new complex ideas. But it hey taught their pupils that those ills under which they thought, to invent or frame one new simple idea in the mind, not taken in by the ways before mentioned:... | |
 | Lex Newman - 2007 - 18 pages
...opt for the subjective genitive because we are utterly passive in our perception of simple ideas. "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" (E II.ii.2: 119-20). Despite being expressed by an... | |
 | John Locke - 1800 - 540 pages
...them, even to an almost infinite variety ; and во 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... | |
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