 | Pierre Bayle - Biography - 1826 - 442 pages
...as that they have sense ; but it is only on particular ideas, just as they receive them from their senses; they are the best of them tied up within those...faculty to enlarge them by any kind of abstraction*." There is in the " Nouvelles de la Republique des Lettres," an abstract of a book intituled, "Essais... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1768 - 418 pages
...Ideasj]\j& as they received them from their Senfes. They are, the beft of them, tied up within thofe narrow Bounds, and have not (as I think) the Faculty to enlarge them by any kind of Abjiraflion. §.12. How far Idiots are concerned in the ,,. , Want or Weaknefs of any, or all of the... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1796 - 556 pages
...ideas, juft as they received them from their fenfes. They are the beft of them tied up within thofe narrow bounds, and have not (as I think) the faculty to enlarge them by any kind of abftraction. madmen 1 . t ^ le want or weaknefs of any, or all of the foregoing faculties, an exact... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1801 - 340 pages
...ideas, juft as they received them from their- fenfes. They are the beft of them tied up within thofe narrow bounds, and have not (as I think) the faculty to enlarge them by any kind of abftraSion. § 12. Idiots and Madmen. How far idiots are concerned in the want or weaknefs of any,... | |
 | John Locke - 1801 - 950 pages
...Chap. il. Difcernifig. 133 They arc the beft of theta tied up wkhin thofe narrowbounds, and have nst (as I think) the faculty to enlarge them by any kind of abftra&ion. § \ I. Idiots and Madmen. How far idiots are concerned in the want or weaknefs of any,... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1805 - 554 pages
...as that they have sense ; but it is only in particular ideas, just as they received them from their senses. They are the best of them tied up within those...faculty to enlarge them by any kind of abstraction. §. 12. How far idiots are concerned in madmen" tne M"ant or weakness of any, or all of the foregoing... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1805 - 562 pages
...received them from their senses. 'They, are the best of them tied up within those narrow to u nds, and have not (as I think) the faculty to enlarge them by any kind of abstraction. §. 11. How far idiots are concerned in " tne want or weakness of any, or all of the foregoing faculties,... | |
 | John Locke - Books and reading - 1806 - 390 pages
...as they received them from their fenfes. • They are the bed of them tied up within thofejiarrovv bounds, and have not (as I think) the faculty to enlarge them by any kind of abjiraciion. § 12. Idiots and Mifnen. How far idiots are concerned in the want or weaknefs of any,... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1813 - 518 pages
...as that they have sense ; but it ia only in particular ideas, just as they received them from their senses. They are the best of them tied up. within...faculty to enlarge them by any kind of abstraction. § 12. Idiots and madmen. How far idiots are Concerned in the want or weakness, of any, or all of the... | |
 | John Locke - 1815 - 454 pages
...particular ideas, just as they received them from their senses. They are the best of them tied vip within those narrow bounds, and have not (as I think)...faculty to enlarge them by any kind of abstraction. § 11. J12. Idiots and madmen. ots are concerned in the want or weakness of any, or all of the foregoing... | |
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It seems as evident to me that they do some of them in certain instances reason as that they have sense, but it is only in particular ideas, just as they receive them from their senses. 
