 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
 | Lewis White Beck - History - 1966 - 332 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... | |
 | Mortimer Jerome Adler - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1991 - 208 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. ... I presume it will be easily granted me that there are such ideas in men's minds; every one is conscious... | |
 | Alfred North Whitehead - Philosophy - 2010 - 452 pages
...subject-predicate bias is slight in its warping effect. He first (I, I, 8*) explains: "... I have used it [ie, idea] to express whatever is meant by phantasm, notion,...which the mind can be employed about in thinking; . . ." But later (III, III, 6t), without any explicit notice of the widening of use, he writes: "...... | |
 | Eva T. H. Brann - Philosophy - 1991 - 828 pages
...Concerning Understanding II 1). Locke remarks on his own use of the term "idea" that it stands for "whatever is meant by phantasm, notion, species or...which the mind can be employed about in thinking." He presumes that it will be easily granted that such items are to be found in the mind. The passage... | |
 | Terence Penelhum - Philosophy - 1992 - 240 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."2 Locke tries to reduce the vagueness by classifying ideas... | |
 | James W. Manns - Philosophy - 1993 - 250 pages
...as the word which stands for "whatsoever is the object of the understanding when a man thinks, . . . whatever is meant by phantasm, notion, species, or...which the mind can be employed about in thinking." 2 But surely this broader definition includes the "images of things" of which Descartes speaks; and... | |
 | Roman Murawski, Jerzy Pogonowski - Computational linguistics - 1997 - 588 pages
...remember his assumptions concerning the sources of human cognition and knowledge. Locke believed that "whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking" comes from experience alone, either the experience of sensation, or that of reflection. Then, there... | |
 | Frederick Ferre, Frederick Ferré - Philosophy - 1998 - 416 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 (Locke 1956: 15-16). This is an endlessly debated definition.... | |
 | C. J. McCracken, I. C. Tipton - Philosophy - 2000 - 314 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. 2. 1. 1. Every man being conscious to himself that he thinks,... | |
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