 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
 | University of Missouri - Philosophy - 1911 - 130 pages
...from external sense on the one hand, and from internal sense on the other? All ideas (and "idea" means "whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking") are adventitious. "Nihil est in intellectu quod non fuerit in sensu." The mind is originally an absolute... | |
 | Jay William Hudson - Philosophy - 1911 - 124 pages
...external sense on the one hand, and from internal sense on the other ? All ideas (and "idea" means "whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking" ) are adventitious. "Nihil est in intellectu quod non fuerit in sensu." The mind is originally an absolute... | |
 | James Seth - Philosophy, English - 1912 - 404 pages
...an idea is ' whatsoever is the object of the understanding when a man thinks ' : hence he uses it ' to express whatever is meant by phantasm, notion,...which the mind can be employed about in thinking.' 2 For Berkeley ' idea ' means, as Professor Fraser says, ' object presented to the senses, or represented... | |
 | Francis Aveling - Knowledge, Theory of - 1912 - 280 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." (Essay, Book i. cap. i. § 8.) stantial 'self and to objective substances in the same dogmatic way... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1843 - 666 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." — Locke's Essay, b. i, oh. 1, § 8. Again he says,... | |
 | Columbia University. Department of Philosophy - Philosophy - 1918 - 288 pages
...philosophers affirm that 'ideas' are the only immediate objects of the mind. Locke says that he uses the term 'idea' "to express whatever is meant by phantasm,...which the mind can be employed about in thinking."™ "By idea," says Berkeley, "I mean any sensible or imaginable thing" (I, 47). Although they both speak... | |
 | Sterling Power Lamprecht - 1918 - 186 pages
...outset of the Essay, an idea is "whatsoever is the object of the understanding when a man thinks," or "whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking." 27 Practically the same definition of the term idea is repeated later, and on the whole predominates... | |
 | Paul Deussen - Philosophy - 1920 - 628 pages
...Begriffe, sondern ebensosehr die anschaulichen Vorstellungen und Phantasiebilder versteht, also alles, ~whatever is meant by phantasm, notion, species, or...is which the mind can be employed about in thinking (Essay I, § 8), whatsoever the mind perceives' in itself, or is the immediate object qf perception,... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1928 - 428 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... | |
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