...is not the sole rule of investigation or directory in judgment. You do not believe, with Aristotle, that " there is nothing in the intellect which was not previously in the senses ;" or, with Locke, that " all ideas of reflection are formed from ideas of sensation." T. No ; we have...

...is not the sole rule of investigation or directory in judgment. You do not believe, with Aristotle, that " there is nothing in the intellect which was not previously in the senses;" or, with Locke, that " all ideas of reflection are formed from ideas of sensation." T. IJo ; we have...

...Sensation, (2) Reft.ection. * (1) All our primary or elementary ideas are derived through the Senses. There is nothing in the Intellect which was not previously in the Senses? or which has not been founded on the operations of the Senses. (This dictum is not universally accepted...

...Human Understanding, while laying down the general principle, nihil in intellectu quod non in sensu, that there is nothing in the intellect which was not previously in the senses, excepts one very important idea, namely, that of substance, or the combined, total impression of an...

...induction is properly formed. IV. THE STOICS were the first, so far as is known, to lay down the principle that there is nothing in the intellect which was not previously in the senses (see Origen, contra Celsum, Book vn.). But those who quote this statement often forget that the Stoics...

...sense-organs is the thing of first and greatest importance. You remember the famous aphorism of Leibnitz: "There is nothing in the intellect which was not previously in the senses — except the intellect itself." As a matter of fact, the stoutest champions of the theory of soul...

...arises the exceptional Jiaracter of absolute certainty which Hume himself concedes to mathematics ? If there is nothing in the intellect which was not previously in the senses, how shall we explain the ideas -of cause, necessary connection, and necessity? As was seen, the Scotch...

...understood in any such way. Leibnitz afterwards set the matter in a clear light in commenting on the maxim that there is nothing in the intellect which was not previously in sense. To this he added the clause, " Except the intellect itself." That is, the intellect is organic,...

...highest cognitive faculty, or that sensations are his most perfect intellectual product. It is true that there is nothing in the intellect which was not previously in the senses, except, as Leibniz puts it, the intellect itself.1 The sensitive faculties merely supply the material...

...constituted it is a universal gift, though too many of us hide it in a napkin. A well-worn aphorism declares that there is nothing in the intellect which was not previously in the sense. This truth is implied in the word " idea," which, apparently most abstract, in reality means...