...thoroughgoing Empiricist. A few definitions will help us to understand this philosophy. An Idea is whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking (Int. Sec. 8). It is thus a general term lor the crude materials of thought. It is the product of any...

...manifested. These phenomena Locke calls " ideas." " I have used it to express whatever is meant by phantom, notion, species, or whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking." This is the very watchword of Locke. His philosophy is a study of ideas. It is the distinction of Locke,...

...borrows from Descartes) Locke means 'whatever is the object of the understanding, when a man thinks ' or ' whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking.' It includes thus the simplest experiences like heat, and the most complex like those of civilisation...

...from external sense on the one hand, and from internal sense on the other? All ideas (and "idea" means "whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking") are adventitious. "Nihil est in intellectu quod non fuerit in sensu." The mind is originally an absolute...

...external sense on the one hand, and from internal sense on the other ? All ideas (and "idea" means "whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking" ) are adventitious. "Nihil est in intellectu quod non fuerit in sensu." The mind is originally an absolute...

...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...about in thinking ; and I could not avoid frequently using it." — Locke's Essay, b. i, oh. 1, § 8. Again he says, — " Idea is the object of thinking...

...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 in thinking." (Essay, Book i. cap. i. § 8.) stantial 'self and to objective substances in the same dogmatic way...

...the understanding when a man thinks ' : hence he uses it ' to express whatever is meant by phantasm, notion, species, or whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking.' 2 For Berkeley ' idea ' means, as Professor Fraser says, ' object presented to the senses, or represented...

...objects of the mind. Locke says that he uses the term 'idea' "to express whatever is meant by phantasm, notion, species, or whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking."™ "By idea," says Berkeley, "I mean any sensible or imaginable thing" (I, 47). Although they both speak...

...objects of the mind. Locke says that he uses the term 'idea' "to express whatever is meant by phantasm, notion, species, or whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking."26 "By idea," says Berkeley, "I mean any sensible or imaginable thing" (I, 47). Although...