 | Gary Remer - Philosophy - 1996 - 336 pages
...the convention-nature distinction to knowledge, Hobbes finds that "there is no conception in a mans mind, which hath not at first, totally, or by parts, been begotten upon the organs of Sense." 7 3 Accordingly, we cannot conceive of anything that is imperceptible, like God, because its existence... | |
 | G. J. Barker-Benfield - History - 1992 - 554 pages
...perception," and at the opening of Leviathan Hobbes wrote: "there is no conception in a man's mind, which has not at first totally, or by parts, been begotten upon the organs of sense." 13. John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, edited by Peter H. Nidditch (Oxford: Clarendon... | |
 | Tom Sorell - Philosophy - 1996 - 420 pages
...empiricist view that "there is no conception in a man's mind, which hath not at first, totally, or by part, been begotten upon the organs of sense. The rest are derived from that original" (Lev. ch. 1, EW III, 1) Hobbes differs from standard empiricism in that he appreciates that language... | |
 | H. James Jensen - English drama - 1996 - 478 pages
...SENSE; (For there is no conception in a man's mind, which has not at first, totally, or by parts, d* been begotten upon the organs of sense.) The rest are derived from that original. . . . The cause of sense, is the external body, or object, which presses the organ proper to each sense,... | |
 | Peter A. Morton - Philosophy - 1996 - 522 pages
...working, produces diversity of appearances. The original of them all is that which we call "sense," for there is no conception in a man's mind which hath...of sense. The rest are derived from that original. To know the natural cause of sense is not very necessary to the business now in hand; and I have elsewhere... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - Philosophy - 2008 - 516 pages
...working, produceth diversity of appearances. The original of them all, is that which we call SENSE, for there is no conception in a man's mind, which hath...of sense. The rest are derived from that original. To know the natural cause of sense, is not very necessary to the business now in hand; and I have elsewhere... | |
 | Wayne P. Pomerleau - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 566 pages
...representational theory requires that sensation be the ultimate original source of all thought. For there is no conception in a man's mind which hath...by parts, been begotten upon the organs of sense. Sensation occurs as a result of an external body or object pressing against the appropriate sense organ.... | |
 | Frederick Ferre, Frederick Ferré - Philosophy - 1998 - 416 pages
...working, produceth diversity of appearances. The original of them all, is that which we call SENSE, for there is no conception in a man's mind, which hath...of sense. The rest are derived from that original (Hobbes 1839: vol. 3, 1). From this is follows, deductively, that imagination can be nothing other... | |
 | Ronald Paulson - History - 1998 - 292 pages
...senses posited by empiricism. "Imagination," Hobbes wrote in 1651, "is nothing but decaying sense" : "there is no conception in a man's mind which hath...by parts, been begotten upon the organs of sense." Compounded or rearranged, he adds, sense impressions can result in images of the imagination: [W]hen... | |
 | Daniel Ray White - Social Science - 1998 - 282 pages
...motion: "concerning the thoughts of man . . . [t]he original of them all is that which we call sense, for there is no conception in a man's mind which hath...by parts, been begotten upon the organs of sense" (25). Thus man in his body, mind, and society is understood in accordance with the materialist and... | |
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The original of them all, is that which we call SENSE, for there is no conception in a man's mind, which hath not at first, totally or by parts, been begotten upon the organs of sense. 
