 | John Locke - Philosophy - 1722 - 640 pages
...neither make fallen and Reflection. • When the Undemanding is once ftor'd with thefe fimple Ideas, it has the Power to repeat, compare, and unite them,...pleafure new complex Ideas. But it is not in the power of the moft exalted Wit, or enlarg'd Underftanding, by a quicknefs or variety of Thought, to invent or... | |
 | John Wynne - Knowledge, Theory of - 1752 - 280 pages
...mind being ohce ftored with the jtmple ideas, has the power to repeat, compare, and unite them to an infinite variety : and fo can make at pleafure new complex ideas. But the moft enlarged underftanding cannot frame one ncvfjimpIe idea; nor by any fotcc deftroy them that... | |
 | Etienne Bonnot de Condillac - Knowledge, Theory of - 1756 - 414 pages
...fuppofes, for inftance, that when once the underftanding is ftored with ideas by means of the fenfes, it has the power to repeat, compare, and unite them,...variety, and fo can make at pleafure new complex ideas .j-. But it is beyond all doubt that in our infancy we have had fenfations, long before we could derive... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1768 - 418 pages
...Senjation and Reflection, (i) them. I' When the Underftanding is once ftored with ""thefe fimple Ideas, it has the Power to repeat, compare, and unite them,...can make at Pleafure new complex Ideas. But it is hot in the Power (i) Againft this, that the Materials of all our Knowledge are fuggefted and furnifhed... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1796 - 560 pages
..." If the idea vf AMauCe be erouuded upon plain and evident reafon, then we muft thefe fimple ideas, it has the power to repeat, compare, and unite them,...pleafure new complex ideas. But it is not in the power of the moft exalted wit, or enlarged underftanding, by any quicknefs or variety of thought, to invent... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1796 - 556 pages
...unite them, even to an almoft infinite variety; and fo can make at pleafure new complex ideas. But it is not in the power of the moft exalted wit, or enlarged underftanding, by any quickncfs or variety of thought, to invent or frama one new fimple idea in the mind, not taken in by... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1801 - 986 pages
...above-mentioned, viz. fenfutkn and rtflc&ion* When the underftanding is once llored with thefe Gmple ideas, it has the power to repeat, compare, and unite them,...new complex ideas ; but it is not in the power of the moft exalted wit, or enlarged under{tanding, by any quicknifs or variety of thoughts, to invent... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1801 - 340 pages
...unite them, even to an almoft infinite variety, and fo can make at pleafure new complex ideas ; but it is not in the power of the moft exalted wit, or enlarged underftanding, by any quieknefs or variety of thoughts, to invent or frame one ncnufimple idea in the mind, not taken in... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1805 - 724 pages
...understanding it ence (bred with thefe (imple ideas, it has the power to reprit, compare, and unite them 5 even to an almoft infinite variety ; and fo can make at pleafure new complex ideas. But it is not in (he power of the rnoft exalted nit, or enlarged underftanding, by any quicknefs or variety of thoughts,... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1805 - 554 pages
...the idea •f substance be grounded upon plain awl evident reason, then we must these simple ideas, it has the power to repeat, compare, and unite them, even to an almost infinite variety ; and so can make at pleasure new complex ideas. But it is not in the power... | |
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When the understanding is once stored with these simple ideas, it has the power to repeat, compare, and unite them, even to an almost infinite variety, and so can make at pleasure new complex ideas. 
