...about the definition of Witz. In 1689, Locke writes: For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety,...from another, ideas wherein can be found the least difference.12 Thus Witz receives its concept from philosophy — the concept that unites all of its...

...figural language any legitimate epistemological role: For Wit lying most in the Assemblage of Ideas, and putting those together with Quickness and Variety,...Difference, thereby to avoid being misled by Similitude and by Affinity to take one thing for another. This is a Way of proceeding quite contrary to Metaphor...

...according to Locke, the ability to put things together. Wit lies mostly in the "assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety,...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy" (ibid.). Wit is typically the skill of the poet, since one form of this "putting together" is metaphor...

...not always the clearest Judgment, or deepest Reason. For Wit lying most in the assemblage of Ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety,...difference, thereby to avoid being misled by Similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another." 2 Basket: another reference to the "hamper of prog."...

...Kennzeichen der Dummheil). - Locke dagegen bestimmt: "For Wit lying most in the assemblage of Ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety,...difference, thereby to avoid being misled by Similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another" (Locke 156). In diesem letzteren Sinn ist jede Amphibolic...

...concern in Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, "wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety,...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy." 40 Locke's argument confirms the general picture described by Foucault as follows: "From the seventeenth...

...together with quickness and variety," for "entertainment and pleasantry"; as opposed to judgment, which "lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully,...difference, thereby to avoid being misled by Similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another."8 Wit can distort truth, as Locke suggests, and in that...

...nützlich sein (Essay 2,1i,2 = Locke (1979) 8.156): «For Wit lying most in the assemblage of Ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety,...difference, thereby to avoid being misled by Similitude, and by affinity to take one thingfor another.» (Zu der hier vertretenen Auffassung von Witz und Phantasie...

...qualifications of Locke's account of wit. Locke had said that wit consists "in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety,...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy." 51 In the 1704 note Addison quotes Locke's observation and says, "Thus does True wit, as this incomparable...

...inferiority when comparing it to the results of judgment: For Wit lying most in the assemblage of Ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety,...make up pleasant Pictures, and agreeable Visions in Fancy: Judoment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully, one from another,...