| Victor Cousin - 1853 - 444 страници
...reference makes a tacit supposition of their conformity to that thing." Book IV. Chap. IV. § 3 : " It is evident, the mind knows not things immediately,...has of them. Our knowledge, therefore, is real, only so far as there is a conformity between our ideas and the reality of things." These two passages are... | |
| John Locke - 1854 - 536 страници
...will appear that all the certainty of general truths a man has, lies in nothing else. SECT. 3. — It is evident the mind knows not things immediately,...has of them. Our knowledge therefore is real, only so fer as there is a conformity between our ideas and the reality of things. But what shall be here... | |
| John Locke, James Augustus St. John - 1854 - 576 страници
...believe it will appear that all the certainty of general truths a man has lies in nothing else. 3. It is evident the mind knows not things immediately,...has of them. Our (knowledge, therefore, is real only so far as there is a conformity between our ideas and the reality of things. But i what shall be here... | |
| Thomas Reid - 1855 - 528 страници
...will satisfy him that they are in others." Speaking of the reality of our knowledge, he says, — " It is evident the mind knows not things immediately,...has of them. Our knowledge, therefore, is real, only so far as there is a conformity between our ideas and the reality of things. But what shall be here... | |
| Samuel Bailey - 1855 - 278 страници
...letter is remarkable. After telling us that the mind perceives nothing but its own ideas ; that it knows not things immediately, but only by the intervention of the ideas it has of them ; and yet that there are external things with which some of these ideas agree ; he proceeds to say,... | |
| Thomas Reid - 1857 - 528 страници
...will satisfy him that they are in others." Speaking of the reality of our knowledge, he says, — " It is evident the mind knows not things immediately,...only by the intervention of the ideas it has of them. Oar knowledge, therefore, is real, only so far as there is a conformity between our ideas and the reality... | |
| George Henry Lewes - 1857 - 838 страници
...which would be made of it; and he stated the problem with remarkable precision. " It is evident that the mind knows not things immediately, but only by the intervention of ideas it has of them. Our knowledge therefore is real, only so far as there is a conformity between... | |
| Sir William Hamilton - 1859 - 772 страници
...philosopher, is not destined to be negatived in the present instance. In opposition to Locke's thesis, " that the mind knows not things immediately, but only by the intervention of the ideas it has of them," and in opposition to the whole doctrine of representation, it is maintained, in terms, by Sergeant,... | |
| Sir William Hamilton - 1861 - 584 страници
...philosopher, is not destined to be negatived in the present instance. In opposition to Locke's thesis, "that the mind knows not things immediately, but only by the intervention of * the ideas it has of them," and in opposition to the whole doctrine of representation, it is maintained, in terms, by Sergeant,... | |
| Sir William Hamilton - 1861 - 584 страници
...philosopher, is not destined to be negatived in the present instance. In opposition to Locke's thesis, "that the mind knows not things immediately, but only by the intervention of the ideas it has of them," and in opposition to the whole doctrine of representation, it is maintained, in terms, by Sergeant,... | |
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