 It being that term which, I think, serves best to stand for whatsoever is the object of the 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...  Geschichte der Philosophie - Page 474by Ritter - 1852Full view - About this book
 | George Campbell - English language - 1801 - 404 pages
...conceptions of the intellect on the other, " it being that term which," in his opinion, " serves best to stand for whatsoever is the object of " the understanding, when a man thinks f." Accordingly he nowhere, that I remember, demies k, . with some logicians, " a pattern or copy of... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1805 - 554 pages
...idea," which he will find in the following treatise. It being that term, which, J think, serves best to stand for whatsoever is the object of the understanding...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... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1805 - 562 pages
...idea," which he will find in the following treatise. It being that term, which, I think, serves best to stand for whatsoever is the object of the understanding...to express whatever is meant by phantasm, notion, spe ies, or whatever it is which the mind can be cmployed about in thinking; and I could not avoid... | |
 | Thomas Cogan - Emotions - 1807 - 536 pages
...in apologizing for the frequent use of the word Idea, " it being that term which I think serves best to stand for whatsoever is the object of the understanding,...thinks. I have used it to express whatever is meant by phantasms, notions, species, or whatever it is which the mind is employed about in thinking." , Thus... | |
 | James Beattie (LL.D.) - Truth - 1807 - 400 pages
...some ideas, according to LOCKE'S definition of the word *), nor as suscep* The word idea serves best to stand for whatsoever is the object of the understanding...man thinks, — I have used it to express whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking. '•• Introduction to Esicy on Human Understanding^... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1808 - 346 pages
...Idea is that which I think serves best to stand for whatsoever is the object of the Understand ing, 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 take for granted the existence... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1813 - 518 pages
...idea, which he will find in the following treatise. It being that ttrm, which, I think, serves best to stand for whatsoever is the object of the understanding...thinks, I have used it to express whatever is meant by fihantasm, notion, sfiecies, or whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking l and... | |
 | John Locke - 1815 - 454 pages
...idea," which he will find in the following treatise. It being that term which, I think, serves best to stand for whatsoever is the object of the understanding...express whatever is meant by phantasm, notion, species, or whatever it is which the mind can be employed about $ 8. What idea stands for. in thinking; and... | |
 | John Locke - 1817 - 556 pages
...treatise. It being that term, which, 1 think, serves best to stand for whatsoever is the object pf the understanding when a man thinks ; I have used...express whatever is meant by phantasm, notion, species, or whatever it is which the mind can be em~ ployed about in thinking. ; and I could not avoid frequently... | |
 | English literature - 1822 - 582 pages
...term, and also the meaning, which he attaches to it. ' It being that term, which, I think, seems best to stand for whatsoever is the object of the understanding...express whatever is meant by phantasm, notion, species, or whatever it is, that the mind can be employed about in thinking.' Intro. \. 8. Having thus stated... | |
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