...^Eschylus, he compares the mind to " white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas," and then asks: [^Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy...materials of Reason and Knowledge? To" this I answer in one word, from Experience: In that all our knowledge is founded; and from that it ultimately derives...

...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...

...second opens by giving the "original" whence all our ideas are derived. " Let us," says Locke, " suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all...materials of reason and knowledge ? To this I answer, in one word, from exjrwience. In that all our knowledge is founded and from that it ultimately derives...

...he compares the mind to " white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas," and then asks : " Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy...materials of Reason and Knowledge ? To this I answer in one word, from Experience : In that all our knowledge is founded ; and from that it ultimately derives...

...he__ccm£ares the mind to " white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas," and then asks :— " Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy...it, with an almost endless variety ? Whence has it alljthe materials of Season and Knowledge P To this I answer in one_wprd, From Experience .In that...

...opens by giving the "original" whence all our ideas are derived. " Let us," says' Locke, " suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without anv ideas; how comes it to be furnished ? Whence comes it by that vast store which the busy and boundless...

...Locke, in his Second Book, proceeds to show whence the understanding receives its ideas. He asks, " Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy...materials of reason and knowledge ? To this I answer in one word, from experience : in that all our knowledge is founded, and from that it ultimately derives...

...whatever is in the mind. His main postulates are laid down by himself as follows : — " Let us suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all...without any ideas, how comes it to be furnished? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer in one word, from experience. In...

...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...

...how we get our ideas. Locke is much addicted to speak of truths by means of images, and he supposes the mind to be, "as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas" (II.' 1). He says that " external and internal sensation arc the only, passages that I can find of...