 | Edward Dowden - Literary Criticism - 1900 - 364 pages
...any other fact in nature : " I thought that the first step towards satisfying several inquiries which the mind of man was very apt to run into was to take...they were adapted. Till that was done I suspected that we begau at the wrong end, and in vain sought for satisfaction in a quiet and secure possession... | |
 | Ludwig Noiré - Knowledge, Theory of - 1900 - 374 pages
...Essay concerning human understanding : ' I thought the first step towards satisfying several enquiries, the mind of man was very apt to run into, was to take a survey of our own understandings, examine our own powers, and see to what things they were adapted. Till that was done,... | |
 | Alexander Campbell Fraser - Philosophers - 1904 - 398 pages
...the conviction that " the first step towards satisfying several inquiries that the mind of man was apt to run into was, to take a survey of our own understanding,...powers, and see to what things they were adapted." Till this was done, he "suspected we began at the wrong end, and in vain sought for satisfaction, whilst... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1905 - 424 pages
...Essay.— This was that which gave the first rise to this Essay concerning the Understanding. For I thought that the first step towards satisfying several inquiries...apt to run into, was, to take a survey of our own understandings, examine our own powers, and see to what things they were adapted. Till that was done,... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1905 - 382 pages
...— This was that which gave the first rise to this Essay concerning the Understanding. For I thought that the first step towards satisfying several inquiries...apt to run into, was, to take a survey of our own understandings, examine our own powers, and see to what things they were adapted. Till that was done,... | |
 | Samuel Alexander - Philosophy - 1908 - 116 pages
...of the later words of Kant in his preface to the Critique of Pure Reason. 'I thought,' Locke says, ' that the first step towards satisfying several inquiries...very apt to run into, was to take a survey of our own understandings, examine our own powers, and see to what things they were adapted. Till that was done... | |
 | John Watson - Experience (Religion) - 1912 - 398 pages
...whatever. " I thought," he tells us, " that the first step towards satisfying several inquiries that the mind of man was very apt to run into, was to take a view of our own understanding, examine our own powers, and see to what things they were adapted. Till... | |
 | Douglas Clyde Macintosh - Knowledge, Theory of - 1915 - 542 pages
...original, certainty, and extent of human knowledge," undertaken, the author informs us, on the supposition "that the first step towards satisfying several inquiries...very apt to run into, was to take a survey of our own understandings, examine our own powers, and see to what things they were adapted." 1 It is assumed... | |
 | Douglas Clyde Macintosh - Knowledge, Theory of - 1915 - 538 pages
...inquiries the mind of man was very apt to run into, was to take a survey of our own understandings, examine our own powers, and see to what things they were adapted." l It is assumed at the outset that "the object of the understanding when a man thinks," what the mind... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1928 - 428 pages
...concerning the understanding. For I thought that the first step towards satisfying several enquiries, the mind of man was very apt to run into, was to take a survey of our own understandings, examine our own powers, and see to what things they were adapted. Till that was done,... | |
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For I thought that the first step towards satisfying several inquiries the mind of man was very apt to run into, was, to take a survey of our own understandings, examine our own powers, and see to what things they were adapted. 
