An Essay on the Origin of Human Knowledge: Being a Supplement to Mr. Locke's Essay on the Human UnderstandingJ. Nourse, 1756 - 339 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة xiv
... " contrary to the opinion of that philofo- " C " C pher ; that the eye naturally judges of fi- " gure , magnitude , fituation and distance . " Our Our author having thus acknowledg- ed his mistake , proceeds xiv The TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE .
... " contrary to the opinion of that philofo- " C " C pher ; that the eye naturally judges of fi- " gure , magnitude , fituation and distance . " Our Our author having thus acknowledg- ed his mistake , proceeds xiv The TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE .
الصفحة xxii
... of more difpute , by reason of the ha- bit we have formed of perceiving founds , as fomething without us . However , this fenfe has has fuch difficulty in judging of distance and fituation , xxii The TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE .
... of more difpute , by reason of the ha- bit we have formed of perceiving founds , as fomething without us . However , this fenfe has has fuch difficulty in judging of distance and fituation , xxii The TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE .
الصفحة xxiii
... distance and fituation , and is fo often mistaken a bout them , that we fhould have agreed at length , that it does not judge of them by it- felf . } But how could the fight be informed by the touch ; the fight that judges of diftances ...
... distance and fituation , and is fo often mistaken a bout them , that we fhould have agreed at length , that it does not judge of them by it- felf . } But how could the fight be informed by the touch ; the fight that judges of diftances ...
الصفحة xxviii
... distance , by means of two fticks , of which it neither knew the length nor direction . Now the rays are to the eye , what a ftick is to the hand and the eye may be looked upon as an organ , which in fome measure has an infinite number ...
... distance , by means of two fticks , of which it neither knew the length nor direction . Now the rays are to the eye , what a ftick is to the hand and the eye may be looked upon as an organ , which in fome measure has an infinite number ...
الصفحة xxix
... distance , magnitude , fituati- on , and figure . To apply this to the ftatue , it puts its hand on its eye , and the colours disappear ; it draws back its hand , and the colours appear again . From thence it is induced to think that ...
... distance , magnitude , fituati- on , and figure . To apply this to the ftatue , it puts its hand on its eye , and the colours disappear ; it draws back its hand , and the colours appear again . From thence it is induced to think that ...
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الصفحة 145 - ... variety of shadow or colour, collecting the figure, it makes it pass for a mark of figure, and frames to itself the perception of a convex figure and an uniform colour, when the idea we receive from thence is only a plane variously coloured ; as is evident in painting.
الصفحة 145 - Not. For though he has obtained the experience of how a globe, how a cube, affects his touch; yet he has not yet attained the experience, that what affects his touch so or so, must affect his sight so or so; or that a protuberant angle in the cube, that pressed his hand unequally...
الصفحة 239 - By which we may give some kind of guess what kind of notions they were, and whence derived, which filled their minds who were the first beginners of languages; and how nature, even in the naming of things, unawares suggested to men the originals and principles of all their knowledge...
الصفحة 145 - I shall here insert a problem of that very ingenious and studious promoter of real knowledge, the learned and worthy Mr. Molineux, which he was pleased to send me in a letter some months since; and it is this: "Suppose a man born blind, and now adult, and taught by his touch to distinguish between a cube and a sphere of the same metal, and nighly of the same bigness, so as to tell, when he felt one and the other, which is the cube, which the...
الصفحة 145 - I agree with this thinking gentleman, whom I am proud to call my friend, in his answer to this his problem ; and am of opinion, that the blind man, at first sight, would not be able with certainty to say which was the globe, which the cube, whilst he only saw them...
الصفحة 144 - When we set before our eyes a round globe of any uniform colour, vg gold, alabaster, or jet, it is certain that the idea thereby imprinted in our mind is of a flat circle variously shadowed, with several degrees of light and brightness coming to our eyes.
الصفحة 129 - The names they first gave to them are confined to these individuals; and the names of nurse and mamma the child uses, determine themselves to those persons. Afterwards, when time and a larger acquaintance have made them observe, that there are a great many other things in the world, that in some common agreements of shape, and several other qualities, resemble their father and mother, and those persons they have been used to, they frame an idea, which they find those many particulars do partake in;...
الصفحة 6 - When the understanding is once stored with these simple ideas, it has the power to repeat, compare, and unite them, even to an almost infinite variety, and so can make at pleasure new complex ideas.
الصفحة 98 - Though the qualities that affect our senses are, in the things themselves, so united and blended that there is no separation, no distance between them; yet it is plain the ideas they produce in the mind enter by the senses simple and unmixed.
الصفحة vi - But we having by use been accustomed to perceive what kind of appearance convex bodies are wont to make in us, what alterations are made in the reflections of light by the difference of the sensible figures of bodies, the judgment presently, by an habitual custom, alters the appearances into their causes...