...suppose, what I have said in the foregoing book will be much more easily admitted when I have shown whence the understanding may get all the ideas it...the mind ; for which I shall appeal to every one's observation and experience. Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all...

...stamped upon their uiinds in their very firat being. This opinion I have, at large, examined already. — Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white...paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; ho w comes it to be furnished? — Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this...

...so, I shall endeavour to explain as clearly and concisely as I can. " Let us suppose," says Locke, " the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas: How comes ft to be furnished ? Whence comes it by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy of man has...

...especially applicable to the present case. If we turn to Book II., chap. i., sect. 2, we read thus : " Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white...characters, without any ideas ; how comes it to be furnished ?" Locke in this passage never denies that the mind may be possessed of certain inherent properties...

...suppose, -what I have said in the foregoing book will be much more easily admitted, when 1 have shown whence the understanding may get all the ideas it...or reflection. — Let us then suppose the mind to he, as we eay. white paper, voiil of all characters, without any ideas ; how comes it to be furnished...

...much more easily admitted when 1 have shown whence the understanding may get all the ideas it luw, and by what ways and degrees they may come into the mind ; for which I shall appeal to every one's observation and experience. t. Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of...

...wiederholt wird. An essay concerning human understanding Book II. eh. I. f. 2. p. 67 (ed. Lond. 1741). Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white...paper, void of all characters, without any Ideas. Doch schon §. 5 p. 69, the mind furnishes the Understanding with Ideas of its own operations. 9. Dies...

...opinions a man holds except by taking them at first hand, in his own words, we will quote : ' § 2. Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white...paper void of all characters without any ideas ; how cornes it to be furnished ? Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy and boundless fancy...

...experience ' is somewhat vague and broad, inasmuch as it flows from two fountain heads, — sensation and reflection. "Let us then suppose the mind to be as...characters without any ideas, how comes it to be furnished? . . . To this I answer in one word from experience. . . . Our observation employed either about external...

...experience ' is somewhat vague and broad, inasmuch as it flows from two fountain heads, — sensation and reflection. "Let us then suppose the mind to be as...characters without any ideas, how comes it to be furnished? . . . To this I answer in one word from experience. . . . Our observation employed either about external...