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" Knowledge then seems to me to be nothing but the perception of the connexion and agreement, or disagreement and repugnancy, of any of our ideas. "
Elements of Natural Philosophy: Arranged Under the Following Heads: Matter ... - Page 267
1808 - 272 pages
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Die Giltigkeit unserer Erkenntnis der objektiven Welt

Walter Taylor Marvin - Knowledge, Theory of - 1899 - 106 pages
...Unterscheidung ist bereits in Ausführungen von Locke enthalten. Locke hat allerdings das Erkennen definiert als „the perception of the connexion and agreement or disagreement and repugnancy of any of our ideas". 2 ) Jedoch im zweiten Buch J ) Quatrteme partte. ') Book IV Ohap. 2 seot. 2. seines...
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The Columbia History of Western Philosophy

Richard Henry Popkin - History - 1999 - 868 pages
...in the earlier books, Locke's discussion is set by his terminology of ideas. Knowledge, he says, is "the perception of the connexion and agreement or disagreement and repugnancy of any of our ideas." We must see that the idea of "round" "excludes" the idea of "square" to see that...
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Berkeley's Principles and Dialogues: Background Source Materials

C. J. McCracken, I. C. Tipton - Philosophy - 2000 - 314 pages
...its own ideas, which it alone does or can contemplate," and then defines knowledge as "nothing but the perception of the connexion and agreement, or disagreement and repugnancy, of any of our ideas" - a characterization that, on the face of it, seems to rule out knowledge of anything...
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The Externalist Challenge

Richard Schantz - Philosophy - 2004 - 534 pages
...more explicit about meta-epistemology than Descartes. "Knowledge then seems to me to be nothing but the perception of the connexion and agreement, or disagreement and repugnancy of any of our Ideas. In this alone it consists." (Essay, IV, 1, ii).2 In chapter 14 of Bk. 4 he is at...
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The Works of the Honourable James Wilson, L.L.D.

James Wilson, Bird Wilson - Law - 2005 - 1436 pages
...to consider it as a very important discovery. " Knowledge," says he, " seems to me to be nothing but the perception of the connexion and agreement, or disagreement and repugnancy of any of our ideas. In this alone it consists. For since the mind, in all its thoughts and reasonings,...
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Central Works of Philosophy: The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

John Shand - Philosophy - 2005 - 250 pages
...action is given at the beginning of the first chapter: "Knowledge then seems to me to be nothing but the perception of the connexion and agreement, or disagreement and repugnancy of any of our Ideas" (IV. i. 2). There are four kinds of agreement or disagreement: identity or diversity,...
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The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-century Philosophy, Volumes 1-2

Knud Haakonssen - Electronic reference sources - 2006 - 668 pages
...sensation, or the work of the sensitive faculty. Condillac, inspired by Locke's definition of knowledge as 'the perception of the connexion and agreement, or disagreement and repugnancy of any of our Ideas' (Essay, IV. i. 2), insisted that judgement, however complex it may seem, 'is still...
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Locke, Language and Early-Modern Philosophy

Hannah Dawson - Political Science - 2007 - 295 pages
...evident, that our knowledge is only conversant about them. Knowledge then seems to me to be nothing but the perception of the connexion and agreement, or disagreement and repugnancy of any of our ideas. In this alone it consists.15 This inflexible ideational circumscription dominates...
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The Cambridge Companion to Locke's 'Essay Concerning Human Understanding'

Lex Newman - Philosophy - 2007 - 18 pages
...that our knowledge is only conversant about them. §2. Knowledge then seems to me to be nothing but the perception of the connexion and agreement, or disagreement and repugnancy of any of our Ideas. Where this Perception is, there is Knowledge, and where it is not, there, though...
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The Constitution of Literature: Literacy, Democracy, and Early English ...

Lee Morrissey - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 264 pages
...activity possible, Johnson's idea of imagination reflects Locke's definition of knowledge as "nothing but the perception of the connexion and agreement, or disagreement and repugnancy, of any of our ideas" (An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, 4. 1. 2. 522). In Johnson's model imagination...
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