| Sir William Hamilton - 1862 - 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,... | |
| H. Coleman - 1865 - 234 страници
...from those of Descartes. Speaking of the reality of our knowledge, he says that it is evident that the mind knows not things immediately, but only by...ideas it has of them. Our knowledge, therefore, is only real in so far as there is a conformity between our ideas and the reality of things. But what... | |
| Noah Porter - 1869 - 752 страници
...mind to know, Locke teaches by the following definitions : "The mind knows not things immedialely, but only by the intervention of the ideas it has of them. Our knowledge, therefore, is real only so far as there is a conformity between our ideas and the reality of things" (R. IT. c. iv. $ 3). This... | |
| Amos Dean - 1869 - 542 страници
...connection and agreement, or disagreement and repugnancy of any one of our ideas. " * * * 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 - 1870 - 590 страници
...potest, quod non '* Poatremo nemo a-grotus quicquam Bom- dicatur ab aliquo philosophorum." — LECT. 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,... | |
| Noah Porter - 1871 - 592 страници
...What knowledge is, or what it is for the mind to know, Locke teaches by the following definition : " The mind knows not things immediately, but only by...has of them. Our knowledge, therefore, is real only so far as there is a conformity between our ideas and the reality of things" (Essay, B. iv. c. iv.... | |
| David Hume - 1874 - 604 страници
...of ™* human knowledge,' where he puts the problem thus : — ' It is i Book n. chap. xzi. sec. 3. evident the mind knows not things immediately, but...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... | |
| Noah Porter - 1874 - 606 страници
...What knowledge is, or what it is for the mind to know, Locke teaches by the following definition : " The mind knows not things immediately, but only by...has of them. Our knowledge, therefore, is real only so far oa there is a conformity between our ideas and the reality of things" (Essay, B. iv. c. iv.... | |
| Noah Porter - 1874 - 594 страници
...,'.';,. is, or what it is for the mind to know, Locke teaches by the following definition : "The miud knows not things immediately, but only by the intervention...has of them. Our knowledge, therefore, is real only so far as there is a conformity between our ideas and the reality of things" (Essay, B. iv. e. iv.... | |
| George Berkeley - 1874 - 430 страници
...of.' This is a distinct admission that we have no immediate proper knowledge of the external world. ' The mind knows not things immediately, but only by the intervention of the ideas it has of them.' (iv. iv. 3.) This strictly taken means that we know only our ideas and infer the existence of things.... | |
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