An Essay on the Origin of Human Knowledge: Being a Supplement to Mr. Locke's Essay on the Human Understanding. Translated from the French of the Abb? de Condillac
An Essay on the Origin of Human Knowledge: Being a Supplement to Mr. Locke's Essay on the Human Understanding. Translated from the French of the Abb? de Condillac
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1756 edition. Excerpt: ... give it a new habit. For by means of the signs.which he is able to recall at pleasure, he revives, or at least is often capable of reviving the ideas which, are connected with them. Afterwards he obtains a greater command over his imagination, in proportion as he invents more signs, because he thereby ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1756 edition. Excerpt: ... give it a new habit. For by means of the signs.which he is able to recall at pleasure, he revives, or at least is often capable of reviving the ideas which, are connected with them. Afterwards he obtains a greater command over his imagination, in proportion as he invents more signs, because he thereby procures more means of employing it. And here it is we begin to perceive the superiority of the human soul over that of brutes. For on the one hand it is certain that it does not depend on them, to affix their ideas to arbitrary signs; and on the other it seems indubitable that this incapacity does not proceed intirely from the organization. Is not their body as proper for the language of action as ours? have not many of them every thing necessary for the articulation of sounds? why therefore, if they are capable of the fame operations as we, do not they give some proofs of it? These particulars shew in what manner the use of different signs contributes to the progress of the imagination, contemplation, and memory. But all this shall be still further explained in the following chapter. C H A P. V. Of Reflexion. 47. A S soon as the memory is formed, and the JLJL habit of the imagination is in our power, the signs recollected by the former, and the ideas revived by the latter, begin to free the foul from from her dependence in regard to the objects by which she was surrounded. As (he has it now in her power to recall the things which she has seen, she may direct all her attention towards them, and transfer it from the present object. At the sight of a picture, for instance, we recollect the knowledge we have of nature, and of the rules by which we learn to imitate; then we transfer our attention successively from this picture to that...
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