...the less prolix passages, in which the distinction between the two sources of ideas is expressed : ' External objects furnish the mind with the ideas of...the understanding with ideas of its own operations' (BoOK n. chap. i. sec. 5). We have seen already that with Locke perception and idea are equivalent...

...the less prolix passages, in which the distinction between the two sources of ideas is expressed : ' External objects furnish the mind with the ideas of...the understanding with ideas of its own operations' (BOOK n. chap. i. sec. 5). We have seen already that with Locke perception and idea are equivalent...

...knowledge. So he says himself, " External objects furnish the mind with the ideas of sensible qualities ; and the mind furnishes the understanding with ideas of its own operations." Nothing can be plainer. Of these two, indeed, he contends, that we know the^latter much better than...

...or the other of these. — The understand ii£ stems to me not to have the least glimmering of any ideas which it doth not receive from one of these two. External obj.vts furnish ti.e m.nd with the ideas of sensible qualities, which ar* all tlKw different perceptions...

...arising from any thought. 5. The understanding seems to me not to have the least glimmering of any ideas which it doth not receive from one of these...taken a full survey of them and their several modes, combinations, and relations, we shall find to contain all our whole stock of ideas ; and that we have...

...arising from any thought." " The Understanding seems to me not to have the least glimmering of any ideas which it doth not receive from one of these...objects furnish the mind with the ideas of sensible qualiI ties, which are all those different perceptions they produce in us; I and the mind furnishes...

...itself." Sensation is the means of experience from external objects, and reflection is the inner sense. "External objects furnish the mind -with the ideas...the understanding with ideas of its own operations." The understanding forms complex ideas by uniting the simple ones given in experience. That Kant was...

...arising from any thoughts." " The Understanding seems to me not to have the least glimmering of any ideas which it doth not receive from one of these...the Understanding with ideas of its own operations." (Bk. II., ch. i., §§ 2-S-) In deriving our knowledge from two distinct sources, Sensation and Reflection,...

...arising from any thought.'' " The Understandingj.eeans to me not to have thejeast glimmering of any ideas which it doth not receive from one of these...External objects furnish the mind with the ideas of sen^""" sible qualities, which are all those different perceptions they" produce in us ; and the mind...

...arising from any thought. ' § 5. The understanding seems to me not to have the least glimmering of any ideas, which it doth not receive from one of these...understanding with ideas of its own operations' ' These words of Locke are quoted at this length and cannot be too carefully noticed, not merely because it...