 It being that term which, I think, serves best to stand for whatsoever is the object of the understanding when a man thinks, I have used it to express whatever is meant by phantasm, notion, species, or whatever it is which the mind can be employed about...  The Quarterly Review - Page 4801822Full view - About this book
 | George Campbell - 1801 - 404 pages
...the conceptions of the intellect on the other, " it being that term which," in his opinion, " serves best to stand for whatsoever is the object of " the understanding, when a man thinks f." Accordingly he nowhere, that I remember, demies k, . with some logicians, " a pattern or copy of... | |
 | John Locke - 1805 - 554 pages
...word " idea," which he will find in the following treatise. It being that term, which, J think, serves best to stand for whatsoever is the object of the...meant by phantasm, notion, species, or whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking ; and I could not avoid frequently using it (i). I... | |
 | John Locke - 1805 - 562 pages
...word " idea," which he will find in the following treatise. It being that term, which, I think, serves best to stand for whatsoever is the object of the...to express whatever is meant by phantasm, notion, spe ies, or whatever it is which the mind can be cmployed about in thinking; and I could not avoid... | |
 | Thomas Cogan - 1807 - 536 pages
...says, in apologizing for the frequent use of the word Idea, " it being that term which I think serves best to stand for whatsoever is the object of the...thinks. I have used it to express whatever is meant by phantasms, notions, species, or whatever it is which the mind is employed about in thinking." , Thus... | |
 | James Beattie (LL.D.) - 1807 - 400 pages
...have some ideas, according to LOCKE'S definition of the word *), nor as suscep* The word idea serves best to stand for whatsoever is the object of the...man thinks, — I have used it to express whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking. '•• Introduction to Esicy on Human Understanding^... | |
 | John Locke - 1808 - 346 pages
...Idea is that which I think serves best to stand for whatsoever is the object of the Understand ing, when a man thinks : I have used it to express whatever...meant by phantasm, notion, species, or whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking. I take for granted the existence of Ideas in all... | |
 | John Locke - 1813 - 518 pages
...word idea, which he will find in the following treatise. It being that ttrm, which, I think, serves best to stand for whatsoever is the object of the...thinks, I have used it to express whatever is meant by fihantasm, notion, sfiecies, or whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking l and... | |
 | John Locke - 1815 - 454 pages
...word " idea," which he will find in the following treatise. It being that term which, I think, serves best to stand for whatsoever is the object of the...meant by phantasm, notion, species, or whatever it is which the mind can be employed about $ 8. What idea stands for. in thinking; and I could Hot avoid... | |
 | John Locke - 1817 - 556 pages
...treatise. It being that term, which, 1 think, serves best to stand for whatsoever is the object pf the understanding when a man thinks ; I have used...meant by phantasm, notion, species, or whatever it is which the mind can be em~ ployed about in thinking. ; and I could not avoid frequently using it (1.)... | |
 | 1854 - 718 pages
...perpetually occurs throughout his Essay. He says, ' It being that term ' which I think best serves to stand for whatsoever is the object • of the understanding when a man thinks, I have used it to • express whatsoever is meant by phantasm, notion, species, or ' whatever it is which the mind can be employed... | |
| |
