...but a confident representative realist, speaks in one place of the human understanding as being "not unlike a closet wholly shut from light, with only...external visible resemblances, or ideas of things without —" These little openings or windows are the senses, and by them alone is some small amount of light...

...Austen makes an event out of Locke's traditional metaphor for enlightenment. Sensations, he argues, are the Windows by which light is let into this dark...external visible Resemblances, or Ideas of things without ... (II.xi.17) 'Like the bright Sun-shine', this kind of knowledge leaves 'no room for Hesitation,...

...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...

...Forest Lawn recalls John Locke's description of the workings of the mind as a kind of camera obscura: "The understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly...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...

...internal entities and storage for them. This description is evident in the following passage from Locke: the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly...resemblances, or ideas of things without; would the picture coming into such a dark room but stay there, and lie so orderly as to be found upon occasion,...

...he takes the camera obscura as a model for the way in which such pictures are painted in the mind: 'methinks the Understanding is not much unlike a Closet...visible Resemblances, or Ideas of things without'. The dominant metaphor of ideas as pictures reinforces Locke's demonstration that our simple ideas are...

...discursive activity," see Timothy J. Reiss, The Discourse of Modernism (Ithaca, 1982), pp. 38—43. discover, are the windows by which light is let into...closet wholly shut from light, with only some little opening left ... to let in external visible resemblances, or some idea of things without; would the...

...theory of knowledge, and reminds the reader of Locke's remark that the internal and external senses "are the windows by which light is let into this dark...closet wholly shut from light, with only some little opening left, to let in external visible resemblances, or ideas of things without" See Locke Essay...

...in, a 'Cabinet' furnished with ideas by the senses, a 'dark Room' illuminated through windows, for 'the Understanding is not much unlike a Closet wholly...external visible Resemblances, or Ideas of things without'.100 Like the edifice that is the universe, human beings are 'framed' according to the same...

...sensation are the only passages 1 can find of knowledge to the understanding. These alone, as far as 1 can discover, are the windows by which light is let...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...