 | Harry Porter Weld - Psychology - 1928 - 324 pages
...understanding. For I thought that the first step — was to take a survey of our own understandings, examine our own powers, and see to what things they were adapted. — JOHN LOCKE. 13. General psychology. Any treatise on psychology which has as its title or subtitle... | |
 | Daniel Bell Leary - Behaviorism (Psychology) - 1928 - 464 pages
...understanding. For I thought that the first step — was to take a survey of our own understandings, examine our own powers, and see to what things they were adapted." LOCKE CHAPTER I THE PSYCHOLOGY OF DELUSION AND BELIEF 1. The Psychology of Belief in General. 2. The... | |
 | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - Philosophy - 1977 - 248 pages
...cognition of this subjectivity. In other words, it is a critique of the cognitive faculties. 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. [. . .] Thus men,... | |
 | Reinhard Brandt - Philosophy - 1981 - 248 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... | |
 | Jocelyn Harris - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 288 pages
...its aim may be as serious as his, to explore how one may take 'a Survey of our own Understandings, examine our own Powers, and see to what Things they were adapted' (1.i. 7). To exercise our reason, says Locke, is to praise the God who gave it, and this is what Catherine... | |
 | 216 pages
...see what objects our Understandings were, or were not, fitted to deal with" (Epistle). — "I thought 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" (Introduction) -—... | |
 | Vere Claiborne Chappell - Philosophy - 1994 - 354 pages
...setting out to inquire into knowledge Locke is setting out "to take a Survey of our own Understandings, examine our own Powers, and see to what Things they were adapted" (E Ii 7: 47). In the background to his questions was a contemporary debate that arose from a large... | |
 | Merold Westphal - History - 1998 - 262 pages
...philosophical enterprise, with the comment that one can read the same thing in Kant. "For I thought that the first step towards satisfying several inquiries...very apt to run into, was, to take a survey of our understandings, examine our own powers, and see to what things they were adapted . . . Thus men, extending... | |
 | Lambros Kordelas - Consciousness - 1998 - 254 pages
...Fundament stellen zu können: »[For] I thought that the first Step toward 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«.101 Das erste der... | |
 | Merold Westphal - Philosophy - 2009 - 338 pages
...to define the limits of [human] understanding. Descartes1 For I thought that the first step toward 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. . . . Whereas, were... | |
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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. 
