 I must here in the entrance beg pardon of my reader for the frequent use of the word "idea," which he will find in the following treatise. It being that term which, I think, serves best to stand for whatsoever is the object of the understanding when a...  HAND-BOOK OF LITERATURE AND THE FINE ARTS; - Page 307by GEORGE RIPLEY - 1852Full view - About this book
 | Theology - 1835 - 700 pages
...best to stand for whatsoever is the object of the understanding, when a man thinks ; I have used it to express whatever is meant by phantasm, notion,...is which the mind can be employed about in thinking ; and I could not avoid frequently using it. I presume it will be granted me, that there are such ideas... | |
 | Robert Blakey - Ethics - 1833 - 402 pages
...seems but to stand for whatever is the object of the understanding when a man thinks. I have used it to express whatever is meant by phantasm, notion,...which the mind can be employed about in thinking; and I could not avoid frequently using it." Here is a very long and particular definition of the word... | |
 | Robert Blakey - Ethics - 1833 - 408 pages
...word idea, notion, which could not, from its etymology, be construed to mean image ; or, as he eays, whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking. Now, I should like to learn from these philosophers, who think they have accomplished such mighty things... | |
 | John Haslam - Language and languages - 1835 - 52 pages
...best to stand for whatsoever is the object of the understanding, when a man thinks. I have used it to express whatever is meant by Phantasm, Notion,...which the mind can be employed about in thinking; and I could not avoid frequently using it." Dr. REID follows nearly in the same track:—" It is a... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1838 - 590 pages
...understanding when a man thinks ; I have used it to express whatever is meant by phantasm, notions, species, or whatever it is, which the mind can be employed about in thinking ; and I could not avoid frequently using it.* I presume it will be easily granted me, that there are... | |
 | Johann Eduard Erdmann - Philosophy, Modern - 1840 - 460 pages
...best, to stand for whatsoever is the object of the understanding when a man thinks. I have used it to express whatever is meant by phantasm, notion,...which the mind can be employed about in thinking. Chapt. 1. §. 8. The things signified by „ ideas, " are nothing but the immediate objects of our... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1846 - 1080 pages
...expressions, that the term idea stands for whatever is the object of the understanding when a man thinks, or whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking : that the mind perceives nothing but its own ideas : that all knowledge consists in the perception... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge - Criticism - 1847 - 462 pages
...best to stand for whatsoever is tho object of the understanding, when a roan thinks ; I have used it to express whatever is meant by phantasm, notion,...which the mind can be employed about in thinking." Human Understand. I. iT s. 8. Ed.J t [" By the term, Impression, then, I mean all our more lively perceptions,... | |
 | Robert Blakey - Cognitive science - 1848 - 546 pages
...seems best to stand for whatever is the object of the understanding when a man thinks. I have used it to express whatever is meant by phantasm, notion,...is which the mind can be employed about in thinking ; and I could not avoid frequently using it." This is a very concise and clear definition. It displays... | |
 | Robert Blakey - Cognitive science - 1848 - 584 pages
...object of the understanding when a man thinks ;" and as being " synonymous with phantasm, NOTION, or species ; or whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking." And throughout his whole " Essay," there is not a single passage, when fairly and candidly interpreted,... | |
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