...ideas, illustrates it in the following manner : " These alone," (sensation and reflection) " as far aa I can discover, are the windows by which light is let into this dark room ; for methinka the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly shut from light, with only some little...

...but that the mind is originally "like white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas," or, "not much unlike a closet wholly shut from light, with only some little opening left, to let in external visible resemblances, or ideas of things without;" and with Addison,...

...substance of these reflections of Stewart ! With respect to the term itself, which Dr. Good has made the *"Methinks, the understanding is not much unlike a...closet, wholly shut from light, with only some little opening left to let in external visible resemblances or ideas of things without. Would the pictures...

...perceiving external objects, by a similitude very much resembling that of the cave. " Methinks," says he, " the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly shut from light, with only some little opening left, to let in external visible resemblances, or ideas of things without. Would the pictures...

...external 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...closet wholly shut from light, with only some little opening left, to let in external visible resemblances, or ideas of things without : would the pictures...

...external 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...closet wholly shut from light, with only some little opening left, to let in external visible resemblances, or ideas of things without : would the pictures...

...external 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...closet wholly shut from light, with only some little opening left, to let in external visible resemblances, or ideas of things without : would the pictures...

...understanding is not much unlike a closet, wholly shut up from light, with only some little opening left, to let in external visible resemblances, or...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...

...understanding is not much unlike a closet, wholly shut up from light, with only some little opening left, to let in external visible resemblances, or...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...

...external objects, by a similitude very much resembling that of the cave. — ' Methinks,' says he, ' the understanding is not much unlike a closet, wholly shut from light, with only some little opening left, to let in external visible resemblances or ideas of things without. Would the pictures...