 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 448 sider
...external visible resemblances, or ideas, of things without : Would the pictures coming into such a dark room but stay there, and lie so orderly as to...reference to all objects of sight, and the ideas of them.' In a different part of his Essay, he has crowded into a few sentences a variety of such theories, shifting... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 538 sider
...in external visible resemblances or ideas of things without. Would the pictures coming into such a dark room but stay there, and lie so orderly as to...reference to all objects of sight, and the ideas of them.'2 " Plato's subterranean cave, and Mr. Locke's dark closet, may be applied with ease to all the... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 452 sider
...visible resemblances, or ideas, of things without : Would ihe pictures coming into such a dark room Irut stay there, and lie so orderly as to be found upon...reference to all objects of sight, and the ideas of them.' In a different part of his Essay, he has crowded into a few sentences a variety of such theories, shifting... | |
 | Francis Wayland - 1854 - 436 sider
...things without. Would the pictures coming into such a dark room but stay there and lie orderly, so as to be found upon occasion, it would very much resemble...reference to all objects of sight and the ideas of them." — Book n., chap. 2, sec. 17. From these quotations, — and many of the same kind might be added,... | |
 | Francis Wayland - 1854 - 444 sider
...things without. Would the pictures coming into such a dark room but stay there and lie orderly, so as to be found upon occasion, it would very much resemble...reference to all objects of sight and the ideas of them." — Book 11., chap. 2, sec. 17. From these quotations, — and many of the same kind might be added,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 536 sider
...resemble the understanding of a man, in reference to all objects of sight, and the ideas of them.'2 " Plato's subterranean cave, and Mr. Locke's dark closet, may be applied with ease to all the systems of perceptions that have been invented ; for they all suppose that we perceive not external objects immediately,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1855 - 542 sider
...let in external visible resemblances, or ideas of things without. Would the pictures coming into a dark room but stay there, and lie so orderly as to...found upon occasion, it would very much resemble the un1 Locke's Essay, book ii. chap. viii. dity, Extension, Figure, Motion or Rest, sprts. II and 12.... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1857 - 528 sider
...in external visible resemblances or ideas of things without. Would the pictures coming into such a dark room but stay there, and lie so orderly as to...found upon occasion, it would very much resemble the under, standing of a man, in reference to all objects of sight, ind the ideas of them." Plato's subterranean... | |
 | 1858 - 588 sider
...left to let in external visible resemblances of things without. Would the pictures coming into such a dark room but stay there, and lie so orderly as to be * Abercrombie, " On the Intellectual Powers." found on occasion, it would very much resemble the understanding... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1859 - 508 sider
...in external visible resemblances or ideas of things without,, Would the pictures coining into such a dark room but stay there, and lie so orderly as to...closet, may be applied with ease to all the systems of perceptions that have been invented : for they all suppose, that we perceive not external objects immediately... | |
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For methinks the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly shut from light, with only some little opening left to let in external visible resemblances or ideas of things without: would the pictures coming into such a dark room but stay there, and... 
