 | Oswald Hanfling - 1989 - 218 pages
...the statement itself is, or could be, known in that way. Locke thought he could prove his case if he 'should only shew (as I hope I shall in the following...this Discourse), how Men, barely by the use of their Faculties, may attain to all the Knowledge they have' (Essay Concerning Human Understanding, 1.2.1).... | |
 | 216 pages
...there are in the Understanding certain Innate Principles — some Primary Notions, Kowal "Ei/coiai, Characters, as it were, stamped upon the Mind of man,...very first being, and brings into the world with it" (i. ii. 1). Divested of the doctrine of Pre-existence, this is the very doctrine of Plato, enounced... | |
 | Brian Beakley, Peter Ludlow - 1992 - 460 pages
...there are in the understanding certain innate principles; some primary notions, /coiva» ëvvoiaa, characters, as it were stamped upon the mind of man;...the falseness of this supposition, if I should only show (as I hope I shall in the following parts of this Discourse) how men, barely by the use of their... | |
 | Margret A. Winzer - 1993 - 482 pages
...blow for empiricism (Berlin, 1956). Before Locke, ideas were generally believed to be innate, that is, "stamped upon the mind of man, which the soul receives...very first being; and brings into the world with it" (Locke, [1690] 1894, p. 37). If disabilities are also innate and imprinted before birth by God, the... | |
 | Vere Claiborne Chappell - 1994 - 354 pages
...established Opinion amongst some Men, That there are in the Understanding certain innate Principles ... as it were stamped upon the Mind of Man, which the...very first Being; and brings into the World with it" (E I.ii.1: 48). These supposed innate principles were divided into the "practical," or moral and religious... | |
 | Thomas C. Pfizenmaier - 1997 - 256 pages
...that there are in the understanding certain innate principles, some primary notions, koinai ennoiai, characters, as it were stamped upon the mind of man,...the falseness of this supposition, if I should only show (as I hope I shall in the following parts of this Discourse) how men, barely by the use of their... | |
 | Roger Smith - 1997 - 1074 pages
...By 'innate ideas' Locke referred to what he took to be common belief in 'some primary notions . . . Characters, as it were stamped upon the Mind of Man,...very first Being; and brings into the World with it', such as the idea of God, of substance, of identity or of the right words for things. He denied that... | |
 | Maryanne Cline Horowitz - 1998 - 404 pages
...that there are in the understanding certain innate principles; some primary notions, koinai cшшai, characters, as it were stamped upon the mind of man; which the soul receives in its very being, and brings into the world with it."22 Locke is attacking the doctrine of innate ideas while... | |
 | Ian Cumming - 1998 - 280 pages
...are in the understanding certain 'innate principles, some primary notions or characters, stamped on the mind of man, which the soul receives in its very first being, and brings into the world with it.' After rejecting the theory of innate ideas he proceeded with his own exposition of how the mind received... | |
 | Niraj Verma - 1998 - 206 pages
...innate principles, some primary notions, . . . characters, as it were, stamped upon the mind of men, which the soul receives in its very first being, and brings into the world with it" (1894, p. 122). Although epistemologically no longer accepted, the Lockean metaphor is not without... | |
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It is an established opinion amongst some men, that there are in the understanding certain innate principles; some primary notions, Koival (.wouu, characters, as it were stamped upon the mind of man, which the soul receives in its very first being, and... 
