 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1891 - 764 sivua
...here exempted ?) ' in their thinking 1 Locke, On the Human Understanding, iii. 2, 1. and reasoning within themselves, make use of words, instead of ideas,...of their meditation contains in it complex ideas.' * But this is in reality an altogether different question ; it is the question whether, after our notions... | |
 | John Locke - 1894 - 516 sivua
...separately is, that most men, if not all, in their thinking and reasonings within themselves, make verv hard use of words instead of ideas ; at least when the subject of treated of. their meditation contains in it complex ideas. Which is a great evidence of the imperfection... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1921 - 660 sivua
...yet harder to treat of mental and verbal propositions " separately, is, that most men, if not all, in their thinking and reasonings within " themselves,...their " meditation contains in it complex ideas." — LOCKE, book iv. c. 5. J 3, 4. " But to return to the consideration of truth. We must, I say. "... | |
 | John Locke - 1924 - 438 sivua
...most men, if not all, in their thinking and reasonings within themselves, make use of 1 Cf. II. 32. i. words instead of ideas, at least when the subject of their meditation contains in it complex ideas. When we make any propositions within our own thoughts about white or black, sweet or bitter, a triangle... | |
 | Michael Losonsky - 2001 - 252 sivua
...also plays a role in the constitution of mental propositions. Locke writes that "most Men, if not all, in their Thinking and Reasonings within themselves,...of their Meditation contains in it complex Ideas" (E 4.5.4). Whatever ideas are produced by our use of language are the products of voluntary activity,... | |
 | Michael Losonsky - 2006 - 304 sivua
...case where we are talking or writing about propositions. Most human beings, if not all, Locke writes, "in their Thinking and Reasonings within themselves, make use of Words instead of Ideas'" (1975, 574, IV.5.4). This occurs primarily when people have thoughts involving complex ideas. As is... | |
 | Lex Newman - 2007 - 18 sivua
...that in our thinking words come to replace our ideas. Most human beings, if not all, Locke writes, "in their Thinking and Reasonings within themselves, make use of Words instead of Ideas" (E IV. v. 4: 574). Since our ideas are unstable, Locke maintains that occur to our Thoughts, than the... | |
 | John Locke - 1800 - 540 sivua
...it yet harder to treat of mental and verbal propositions separately is, that most men, if not all, in their thinking and reasonings within themselves,...instead of ideas ; at least when the subject of their meditations contains in it complex ideas. Which is a great evidence of the imperfection and uncertainty... | |
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And that which makes it yet harder to treat of mental and verbal propositions separately, is, that most men, if not all, in their thinking and reasonings within themselves, make use of words instead of ideas, at least when the subject of their meditation... 
