 | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - Books - 1764 - 616 pages
...been very generally received by Philofophers, but of which I could find no folid proof. The hypothefis I mean is, That nothing is perceived but what is in...of them imprinted upon the Mind, which are called imprcjjions and ideas. 1 If this be true ; fuppofing certain impreilions and ideas to cx'iil fr:fcHify... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - Apologetics - 1775 - 452 pages
...been generally received by philofbphers, ' but of which I could find no folid proof. ' The hypothefis I mean is, that nothing * is perceived but what is...things that are external, ' but only certain images and piftures of ' them, imprinted upon the mind, which ' are called impreffions and ideas.' In faft, it... | |
 | James Wilson - Law - 1804 - 494 pages
...wanting From the age of Plato down to the present century, it has been the opinion of philosophers, that nothing is perceived but what is in the mind which perceives it : that the mind takes no direct cognizance of external things ; but that it perceives them through the medium... | |
 | Thomas Reid - Common sense - 1810 - 502 pages
...been very generally received by philosophers, but of which I could find no solid proof. The hypothesis I mean, is, That nothing is perceived but what is...of them imprinted upon the mind, which are called impressions and ideas. IF this be true ; supposing certain impressions and ideas to exist in my mind,... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1811 - 522 pages
...truth of that proposition which Dr REIDS whole work is intended to refute. The proposition is this, " That nothing is perceived but what is in the mind which perceives it." This proposition, according to SC is a self-evident truth, when its terms are explained. Let us attend,... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1811 - 522 pages
...truth of that proposition which Dr REIDS whole work is intended to refute. The proposition is this, " That nothing is perceived but what is in the mind which perceives it." This proposition, according to SC is a self-evident truth, when its terms are explained. Let us attend,... | |
 | Thomas Reid - Philosophy - 1822 - 432 pages
...been very generally received by philosophers, but of which I could find no solid proof. The hypothesis I mean is, that nothing is perceived but what is in...of them imprinted upon the mind, which are called impressions and ideas. If this be true; supposing certain impressions and ideas to exist in my mind,... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1823 - 320 pages
...been very generally received by philosophers, but of which I could find no solid proof. The hypothesis I mean, is. That nothing is perceived but what is...of them imprinted upon the mind, which are called impressions and ideas. If this be true ; supposing certain impressions and ideas to exist in my mind,... | |
 | English literature - 1825 - 666 pages
...been very generally received by philosophers, but of which I could find no solid proof. The hypothesis I mean is, — that nothing is perceived but what...of them imprinted upon the mind, which are called impressions and ideas"* Rejecting, therefore, the ancient hypothesis in regard to perception, he endeavoured... | |
 | Walter Vaughan - Headache - 1825 - 286 pages
...of his scholers, by leaving them no ground to believe any one thing, rather than its contrary, as if nothing is perceived, but what is in the mind which perceives it, he boldly drove back. He encouraged no prejudice against Christianity; a Religion which recommends... | |
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That nothing is perceived but what is in the mind which perceives it : That we do not really perceive things that are external, but only certain images and pictures of them imprinted upon the mind, which are called impressions and ideas. 
