...External and intemal sensations are the only passages that I can find of knowledge to understanding. These alone, as far as I can discover, are the windows...closet wholly shut from light, with only some little opening left, to let in external resemblances, or ideas of things without: would the pictures coming...

...becomes the expected. This is perhaps most evident when Locke speaks of mind as a camera obscura — "a Closet wholly shut from light, with only some little...openings left, to let in external visible Resemblances, tycIdeiu of things without" (2.12.17). Elsewhere he likens the understanding to a lantern whose painted...

...which are given once and forever, permanently establish both how we can see and indeed who we are: they are "the Windows by which light is let into this dark Room" of the self.5' "The infinite wise Contriver of us, and all things about us," writes Locke, "hath fitted...

...and acquired only by experience, that is to say, through the five senses: methinks, the Understand1ng is not much unlike a Closet wholly shut from light,...of things without; would the Pictures coming into such a dark Room but stay there, and lie so orderly as to be found upon occasion, it would very much...

...and internal Sensation, are the only passages that I can find, of Knowledge, to the Understanding. These alone, as far as I can discover, are the Windows...dark Room. For, methinks, the Understanding is not so much unlike a Closet wholly shut from light, with only some little openings left, to let in external...

...„For, methinks, the Understanding is not much unlike a Cioset wholly shut from light, with only sotne little openings 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 äs to be found upon occasion, it would very much...

...and internal sensation, are the only passages that I can find, of Knowledge, to the Understanding. These alone, as far as I can discover, are the Windows...of things without; would the Pictures coming into such a dark Room but stay there, and lie so orderly as to be found upon occasion, it would very much...

...which are given once and forever, permanently establish both how we can see and indeed who we are: they are "the Windows by which light is let into this dark Room" of the self. 4 "The infinite wise Contriver of us, and all things about us," writes Locke, "hath fitted...

...Locke's image of the understanding as a camera obscura in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding? "For, methinks, the Understanding is not much unlike...left ... to let in external visible Resemblances" (II.xi.17). The glass of the window would then be equivalent to the lens of the eye, and the monstrous...

...Locke says "understanding" is like "a closet wholly shut from light, with only some little opening left, to let in external visible resemblances, or ideas of things without [from outside]." So "understanding" is like the mind: an empty chamber at birth that fills up with...