 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...  Elementary Arithmetic - Σελίδα 235των William W. Speer - 1897 - 314 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 454 σελίδες
...objects of reflection, are to me the only originals from whence all our ideas take their beginnings." * " When the understanding is once stored with these simple...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... | |
 | Robert Owen - 1829 - 568 σελίδες
...all our knowledge, which are suggested and furnished to the mind only by sensation and reflection. When the understanding is once stored with these simple...power to repeat, compare, and unite them, even to :m almost infinite variety, and so can make, at pleasure, new complex ideas. But it is not in the power... | |
 | John Haslam - 1835 - 52 σελίδες
...them into propositions: other Truths require a train of Ideas placed in order."—Vol. I. p. 63. " When the understanding is once stored with these simple...and so can make at pleasure new complex Ideas."— Vol I. p. 81. Ideas are the memorial phantasms of visual perception, a largess bestowed, perhaps exclusively,... | |
 | Robert Owen - 1839 - 556 σελίδες
...mind only by sensation and reflection. When the understanding is once stored with these simpleideas, it has the power to repeat, compare, and unite them,...pleasure, new complex ideas. But it is not in the power of the most exalted wit, or enlarged understanding, by any ([uickness or variety of thoughts, to invent... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1846 - 1080 σελίδες
...with simple ideas of sensation and reflection, has the power to repeat, to compare, ai.d to combine them, even to an almost infinite variety, and so can make at pleasure new complex ideas : but that is not in the power of the most exalted wit, or enlarged * That Locke did not (u even Mr Stewart... | |
 | John Locke - 1849 - 588 σελίδες
...suggested and furnished to the mind only by those two ways above mentioned, viz. sensation and reflection.* When the understanding is once stored with these simple...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 thoughts, to invent... | |
 | John Locke - 1849 - 588 σελίδες
...suggested and furnished to the mind only by those two ways above mentioned, viz. sensation and reflection.* When the understanding is once stored with these simple...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 thoughts, to invent... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1850 - 522 σελίδες
...with simple ideas of sensation and reflection, has the power to repeal, to compare, and to combine 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... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1851 - 248 σελίδες
...sensation and reflection are the only sources of materials. But we will continue to hear Locke : — " When the understanding is once stored with these simple...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... | |
 | JOHN MURRAY - 1852 - 786 σελίδες
...and is not distinguishable into different ideas. The mind can neither make nor destroy them.—When the Understanding is once stored with these simple...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... | |
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