 | John Buchan - English literature - 1923 - 746 pages
...which is commonly called an object. . . . 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. Leviathan, Part I. i. Here comes in his doctrine of motion. The only reality, including the cognitive... | |
 | Matthew Thompson McClure - Logic - 1925 - 512 pages
...Concerning our ideas, Thomas Habbes writes: "The original of them all is that which we call SENSE, for there is no conception in a man's mind, which hath...sense. The rest are derived from that original."' A similar passage may be cited from Hume: "Nothing, at first view, may seem more unbounded than the... | |
 | Joseph Peterson - Education - 1925 - 362 pages
...all knowledge comes from sensory experiences. " There is no conception in a man's mind which hath not first, totally or by parts, been begotten upon the organs of sense" (130, Chapter 1). Thus all imaginations and even dreams are limited. "Whatever we imagine is finite"... | |
 | Rolfe Arnold Scott-James - Criticism - 1928 - 406 pages
...Beautiful. Concerning the Thoughts of man . . . the Original of them all, is that which we call Sense ; (For there is no conception in a man's mind, which hath...the organs of Sense.) The rest are derived from that originall. . . . After the object is removed, or the eye shut, we still retain an image of the thing... | |
 | Maria Alicia Amadei-Pulice - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 276 pages
...working produceth diversity of appearances. The original of them all is that which we cali sense, (for there is no conception in a man's mind which hath...the organs of sense). The rest are derived from that original.3 La importancia que Hobbes le asigna a los sentidos en la formación de las ideas es sorprendentemente... | |
 | James W. Cornman, Keith Lehrer, George Sotiros Pappas - Philosophy - 1992 - 396 pages
...which he claims is the source of all of a person's thoughts, imaginings, dreams and remembrances, "for there is no conception in a man's mind, which hath...the organs of sense. The rest are derived from that original."17 His materialism becomes clear when he says that sense is "some internal motion in the... | |
 | Edwin Webb - Education - 1992 - 184 pages
...recognition made three centuries previously by Thomas Hobbes. In Leviathan (1651) Hobbes had written: 'There is no conception in a man's mind, which hath...by parts, been begotten upon the organs of sense.' Products of the imagination, the reminder serves to tell us, are in this way composited out of elements... | |
 | Lynn McDonald - Philosophy - 1996 - 412 pages
...principles of political organization from atoms in motion. The origin of all thought was sense, "for there is no conception in a man's mind, which hath...totally, or by parts, been begotten upon the organs of sense."21 The cause of sense was the external body or object pressing the sense organ, directly for... | |
 | Philip Beeley - Continuity - 1996 - 420 pages
...§ l, EW III, l: "The original of them all (sc. thoughts of man), 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" 52 Siehe Hobbes, De corpore IV, 25, § 8, OL I, 325: "Ortus perpetuus turn sentientibus tum cogitantibus... | |
 | David Wootton - Political Science - 1996 - 964 pages
...working, produceth diversity of appearances. The original of them all, is that which we call SENSE; (For nother. To know the natural cause of sense, is not very necessary to the business now in hand; and I have elsewhere... | |
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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. 
