| John Locke - 1905 - 424 páginas
...of a trumpet. 6. What it is.— If any one asks me, what this solidity is, I send him to his senses to inform him: let him put a flint or a football between his hands, and then endeavor to join them, and he will know. If he thinks this not a sufficient explication of solidity,... | |
| John Locke - 1905 - 382 páginas
...of a trumpet. 6. What it is. — If any one asks me, what this solidity is, I send him to his senses to inform him : let him put a flint or a football between his hands, and then endeavor to join them, and he will know. If he thinks this not a sufficient explication of solidity,... | |
| William Ritchie Sorley - 1920 - 418 páginas
...he says1 without hesitation, " If any one asks me, what this solidity is, I send him to his senses to inform him. Let him put a flint or a football between...and then endeavour to join them, and he will know." But he will not know without going a long way beyond the simple idea. The simple ideas in the case... | |
| 1994 - 412 páginas
...he says1 without hesitation, " If any one asks me, what this solidity is, I send him to his senses to inform him. Let him put a flint or a football between...and then endeavour to join them, and he will know." But he will not know without going a long way beyond the simple idea. The simple ideas in the case... | |
| David A. Dilworth - 1989 - 252 páginas
...direct observation. Thus Locke writes: "If any one asks me, What solidity is, I send him to his senses to inform him. Let him put a flint or a football between his hands, and then endeavor to join them, and he will know."55 But in propounding the doctrine of the direct experience... | |
| Peter Walmsley - 1990 - 236 páginas
...of just such a tangible test: 'If any one asks me, What this Solidity is, I send him to his Senses to inform him: Let him put a Flint, or a Foot-ball...Hands; and then endeavour to join them, and he will know.'9 For Locke this idea of solidity or impenetrability 'of all other, seems the Idea most intimately... | |
| Elaine Scarry - 2001 - 310 páginas
...formation of the sense of solidity: "If any one asks me, What this solidity is, I send him to his senses to inform him. Let him put a flint or a football between...hands, and then endeavour to join them, and he will know."21 Some philosophers take Locke to mean, "apart from data of the sense of touch, we could not... | |
| Peter Walmsley - 2003 - 208 páginas
...Air inclosed in a Football. (2AA) If any one asks me, What this Solidity is, I send him to his Senses to inform him: Let him put a Flint, or a Foot-ball...and then endeavour to join them, and he will know. . . . The simple Ideas we have are such, as experience teaches them us; but if beyond that, we endeavour,... | |
| Noah Heringman - 2004 - 340 páginas
...with the following observation: "If any one asks me, What this Solidity is, I send him to his Senses to inform him: Let him put a Flint, or a Foot-ball between his Hands; and then endeavor to join them, and he will know." Such tactile examples convince us, Locke argues, that solidity... | |
| John Locke - 1800 - 540 páginas
...trumpet. SECT. 6. What it is. — If any one ask me what this solidity is? I send him to his senses to inform him ; let him put a flint or a football between his handu and then endeavour to join them, and he will know. If he thinks this not a sufficient explication... | |
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