...ideas of all sorts are in the nature of mental pictures. 'Let us suppose,' he says, ' the mind to be white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with...

...somewhat vague and broad, inasmuch as it flows from two fountain heads, — sensation and reflection. "Let us then suppose the mind to be as we say white.... . To this I answer in one word from experience. . . . Our observation employed either about external sensible objects or about the internal operations...

...somewhat vague and broad, inasmuch as it flows from two fountain heads, — sensation and reflection. "Let us then suppose the mind to be as we say white.... . To this I answer in one word from experience. . . . Our observation employed either about external sensible objects or about the internal operations...

...nature of intelligence, is John Locke. He tells us, " All ideas come from sensation or reflection. Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white...characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished ? Whence comes it by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with...

...the second opens by giving the "original" whence all our ideas are derived. "Let us," says Locke, " suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any itkun ; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by th.at vast store which the busy and boundless...

...they may come into the mind, for which I shall appeal to every one's own observation and experience. Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white...characters, without any ideas : how comes it to be furnished ? Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it,...

...they may come into the mind; for which I shall appeal to every one's own observation and experience. Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white...characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished ? Whence comes it by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it, with...

...to every one's own observation and experience. 2. All ideas come from sensation or reflection. — Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white...without any ideas ; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that' vast store, which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with...

...to every one's own observation and experience. 2. All ideas come from sensation or reflection.— >" Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white...characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy and boundless fancy of man 2s has painted on it...

...which Descartes turned, a distinct and independent source of information. "Let us, then," he continues, "suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void...characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished ? Whence comes it by that vast p store which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it,...