An essay concerning human understanding. With the notes and illustr. of the author, and analysis of his doctrine of ideas
- Kind
- Book
- Date
- 1853
- Retrieved
- Apr 27, 2013
- ISBN
- CTsIAAAAQA
2 memes from this reference
The Mind as a Blank Slate
1. Idea is the object of thinking.—Every man being conscious to himself that he thinks, and that which his mind is applied about whilst thinking being the ideas that are there, it is past doubt that men have in their minds several ideas, such as are those expressed by the words, “whiteness, hardness, sweetness…
Molyneux's problem
I shall here insert a problem of that very ingenious and studious promoter of real knowledge, the learned and worthy Mr. Molyneux, which he was pleased to send me in a letter some months since; and it is this:- "Suppose a man born blind, and now adult, and taught by his touch to distinguish between a cube and a sphere…