 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
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1891 - 176 pages
...serves 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 easily granted me, that there are... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1894 - 692 pages
...can correspond with and be represented by' — all alike are ' ideas ' in Locke's meaning of idea. ' Whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking,' Locke tells us (Introduction, § 8) is what is meant by an idea in the Essay ; and as every one is... | |
 | John Locke - Intellect - 1900 - 172 pages
...important part in the Essay. In the introduction to that great work, Locke tells us that an idea is " whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking." A simple idea is only one element in knowledge. XXX. P. 79. In his Thoughts Concerning Education, Locke... | |
 | Orrok Colloque - Teleology - 1904 - 72 pages
...are as follows: An idea is "whatsoever is the object of the understanding, when a man thinks" . . . "whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking." Ideas are the material with which the mind works. They are obtained wholly from experience. They come... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1905 - 382 pages
...serves 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. I presume it will be easily granted me, that there are such... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1905 - 424 pages
...best to stand for whatsoever is the object of the y 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. ' I presume it will be easily granted me, that there are... | |
 | William Stanley Jevons - Logic - 1905 - 368 pages
...term used ambiguously, but generally equiva* lent to thought, notion, concept Defined by Locke as " Phantasm, notion, species, or whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking." To have an itU.w of a thing is to think of that thing. Identity, law of, 117—8 Idol ici^ioAoi', elfios,... | |
 | Hiram Van Kirk - 1907 - 158 pages
...thoroughgoing Empiricist. A few definitions will help us to understand this philosophy. An Idea is whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking (Int. Sec. 8). It is thus a general term lor the crude materials of thought. It is the product of any... | |
 | Archibald Browning Drysdale Alexander - Philosophy - 1908 - 644 pages
...manifested. These phenomena Locke calls " ideas." " I have used it to express whatever is meant by phantom, notion, species, or whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking." This is the very watchword of Locke. His philosophy is a study of ideas. It is the distinction of Locke,... | |
 | Samuel Alexander - Philosophy - 1908 - 116 pages
...borrows from Descartes) Locke means 'whatever is the object of the understanding, when a man thinks ' or ' whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking.' It includes thus the simplest experiences like heat, and the most complex like those of civilisation... | |
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