 | Ernest Belfort Bax - Philosophy - 1886 - 460 pages
...we call sense. 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." In Hobbes we have the first distinct expression of the English empiricist doctrine — the doctrine which... | |
 | Richard Claverhouse Jebb - Electronic books - 1882 - 252 pages
...proceeds to deduce the existence of the Deity from the faculties of the human soul. Hobbes had said : " There is no conception in a man's mind which hath...been begotten upon the organs of sense : the rest arc derived from that original." Bentley, on the contrary, undertakes to prove that " the powers of... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - Political science - 1889 - 932 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 ndw in hand ; and I have... | |
 | Charles Bray - Cooperation - 1889 - 434 pages
...holding the dogma, " Nihil est in intellectu, quod non prius f uerit in sensu," for he says that " there is no conception in a man's . mind which hath...or by parts, been begotten upon the organs of sense ;" as the Phrenologist holds that such conceptions are formed by the faculties of Reflection and Relative... | |
 | Francis Bowen - Philosophy, Modern - 1889 - 516 pages
...begins with particulars, and is derived from mere sensations, so that, to quote Hobbes's own language, " there is no conception in a man's mind, which hath...or by parts, been begotten upon the organs of sense ; " and " a man can have no thought representing anything not subject to sense." We might quote against... | |
 | Henry Webb Brewster - Perception - 1893 - 176 pages
...appearances. * * * The original of them all, is that which we call sense (For there is no conception in man's mind, which hath not at first, totally, or by...sense.); the rest are derived from that original. * * * The cause of sense, is the external body, or object, which presseth the organ proper to each... | |
 | John Morley - Authors, English - 1894 - 618 pages
...of the Leviathan, are: — "The original of all the thoughts of men 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." And Condillac, aiming at a theory still more simple, derives from sensations not only all our knowledge... | |
 | Richard William Church - Philosophy - 1895 - 714 pages
...proceeds to deduce the existence of the Deity from the faculties of the human soul. Hobbes had said : ' There is no conception in a man's mind which hath...sense : the rest are derived from that original.' Bentley, on the contrary, undertakes to prove that ' the powers of cogitation, and volition, and sensation,... | |
 | Charles Bradlaugh - Free thought - 1895 - 340 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." The effect of this is to deny any possible knowledge other than as results from the activity of the... | |
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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. 
