..." whatsoever is the object of the understanding when a man thinks, . . . phantasm, notion, species, or whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking " " has lost the meaning it had for the scholastics from whom Locke borrowed it. The mediaeval writers...

...object of the understanding when a man thinks, . . . whatever is meant by phantasm. notion. species, or whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking",2) also jedes Gedachte zur Kennzeichnung dieses seines Charakters als Gedachtes, nennt er...

...understanding when a man thinks; I have used it to express whatever is meant by phantasm, notion, species, or whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking; and I could not avoid frequently using it. I presume it will be easily granted me, that there are such...

...object of the understanding when a man thinks, . . . whatever is meant by phantasm, notion, species, or whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking".2) also jedes Gedachte zur Kennzeichnung dieses seines Charakters als Gedachtes, nennt er...

...one hand, he says often, in distinct and studied expressions, that the term idea stands for whatever is the object of the understanding when a man thinks,...which the mind can be employed about in thinking: that the mind perceives nothing but its own ideas: that all knowledge consists in the perception of...

...understanding when a man thinks, I have used it to express whatever is meant by phantasm, notion, species, or whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking. ... I presume it will be easily granted me that there are such ideas in men's minds; every one is conscious...

...explains: "... I have used it [ie, idea] to express whatever is meant by phantasm, notion, species, or whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking; . . ." But later (III, III, 6t), without any explicit notice of the widening of use, he writes: "......

...one hand, he says often, in distinct and studied expressions, that the term idea stands for whatever ment, and save ourselves the trouble of a tedious...probable * tnliva. It is not conceivable how anyth : that the mind perceives nothing but its own ideas : that all knowledge consists in the perception...

...on his own use of the term "idea" that it stands for "whatever is meant by phantasm, notion, species or whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking." He presumes that it will be easily granted that such items are to be found in the mind. The passage...

...understanding when a man thinks, I have used it to express whatever is meant by phantasm, notion, species, or whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking; and I could not avoid frequently using it."2 Locke tries to reduce the vagueness by classifying ideas...