work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
3276,"","Reading S. H. Clark's ""Locke and Metaphor Reconsidered"" in JHI 59:2 (1998), p. 253",2005-03-21 00:00:00 UTC,"I Cannot but think my self beholden to any Occasion that procures me the Honour of a Letter from you. I return my Acknowledgments for those great Expressions of Civilty and Marks of Friendship I receiv'd in yours of the eighth Instant; and wish I had the Opportunity to shew the Esteem I have of your Merit, and the Sense of your Kindness to me, in any real Service. The Desire of your Friend in the inclos'd Letter you sent me, is what of my self I am inclin'd to satisfy: and am only sorry, that so copious a Subject has lost, in my bad Memory, so much of what heretofore I could have said, concerning the Great and Good Man, of whom he enquires. Time, I daily find, blots out apace the little Stock of my Mind, and has disabled me from furnishing all that I would willingly contribute to the Memory of that Learned Man. But give me leave to assure you, that I have not know a fitter Person than he, to be preserv'd as an Example, and propos'd to the Imitation of Men of Letters. [...]
(p. 7)",,8537,"3322 VIII, 42 in Works...","""Time, I daily find, blots out apace the little Stock of my Mind, and has disabled me from furnishing all that I would willingly contribute to the Memory of that Learned Man..""",Writing,2013-10-13 15:54:00 UTC,""
4178,"",Past Masters,2004-02-26 00:00:00 UTC,"HYLAS. Explain to me now, O Philonous! how it is possible there should be room for all those trees and houses to exist in your mind. Can extended things be contained in that which is unextended? Or are we to imagine impressions made on a thing void of all solidity? You cannot say objects are in your mind, as books in your study: or that things are imprinted on it, as the figure of a seal upon wax. In what sense therefore are we to understand those expressions? Explain me this if you can: and I shall then be able to answer all those queries you formerly put to me about my substratum.
PHILONOUS. Look you, Hylas, when I speak of objects as existing in the mind or imprinted on the senses; I would not be understood in the gross literal sense, as when bodies are said to exist in a place, or a seal to make an impression upon wax. My meaning is only that the mind comprehends or perceives them; and that it is affected from without, or by some being distinct from itself. This is my explication of your difficulty; and how it can serve to make your tenet of an unperceiving material substratum intelligible, I would fain know.
HYLAS. Nay, if that be all, I confess I do not see what use can be made of it. But are you not guilty of some abuse of language in this?
PHILONOUS. None at all: it is no more than common custom, which you know is the rule of language, hath authorized: nothing being more usual, than for philosophers to speak of the immediate objects of the understanding as things existing in the mind. Nor is there any thing in this, but what is conformable to the general analogy of language; most part of the mental operations being signified by words borrowed from sensible things; as is plain in the terms comprehend, reflect, discourse, &c. which being applied to the mind, must not be taken in their gross original sense.
(Vol ii, p. 241)
",,10848,"•INTEREST. Metaphors and anti-metaphors, figurative language and ordinary language.
•Both of the metaphors most readily associated with Locke (inscribed surface/container) are here denied.
•I had two entries: they were split into two metaphors room/wax. I deleted the second.
","""You cannot say objects are in your mind, as books in your study: or that things are imprinted on it, as the figure of a seal upon wax.""",Impressions and Rooms,2013-09-12 04:08:26 UTC,Third Dialogue
4332,Blank Slate,"Searching ""tabula rasa"" in ECCO",2006-10-09 00:00:00 UTC,"For before the Vessel be seasoned with one kind of Liquor, it is equally capable of all, and so the Wax is indifferent to any Impression, before it is moulded and determined by a particular Seal: If the Mind be a rasa Tabula, as Aristotle would have it, then this White Paper may best be inriched with good Inscriptions, before it be soiled or blotted with Evil: Or if there be any innate, connatural Notions, which the Platonists affirm, it is best then to awaken them, before evil Customs of Life deaden their Vigour; as it happens to the Body from an Obstruction in the Nerves: For doubtless, all evil is a kind of Intellectual Opium, which casts the Faculties of the Mind (as I may so say) into a Moral Apoplexy; and so, according to the Opinion of one Philosopher, blots the White Paper; according to another, it is destructive of the very first Principles in nature: Whereas he, who lays his Foundation upon the Principles of Virtue, shall direct the Course of his Life with that Uniformity, as will bear him up under all Accidents, he can be exposed to; he will be guided by such Rules, as he never needs change; but his whole Life will be blameless, his Actions well weigh'd, his Words discreet, his thoughts regular, and in all Things shall he live according to the utmost Perfection Human nature is capable of.
(p. 23)",,11329,"•I've included four times: Vessel, Wax, Tabula Rasa, and Paper
•Cites Aristotle not Locke. Hedges with Platonist position.","""For before the Vessel be seasoned with one kind of Liquor, it is equally capable of all, and so the Wax is indifferent to any Impression, before it is moulded and determined by a particular Seal: If the Mind be a rasa Tabula, as Aristotle would have it, then this White Paper may best be inriched with good Inscriptions, before it be soiled or blotted with Evil""","",2009-09-14 19:35:48 UTC,"Reasons, Why Youth is the fittest Time to learn Virtue"
7470,"",Reading,2013-06-17 20:07:59 UTC,"We observed a long Antrum or Cavity in the Sinciput, that was filled with Ribbons, Lace and Embroidery, wrought together in a most curious Piece of Network, the Parts of which were likewise imperceptible to the naked Eye. Another of these Antrums or Cavities was stuffed with invisible Billet-doux, Love-Letters, pricked Dances, and other Trumpery of the same Nature. In another we found a kind of Powder, which set the whole Company a Sneezing, and by the Scent discovered it self to be right Spanish. The several other Cells were stored with Commodities of the same kind, of which it would be tedious to give the Reader an exact Inventory.",,20899,"","""We observed a long Antrum or Cavity in the Sinciput, that was filled with Ribbons, Lace and Embroidery, wrought together in a most curious Piece of Network, the Parts of which were likewise imperceptible to the naked Eye. Another of these Antrums or Cavities was stuffed with invisible Billetdoux, Love-Letters, pricked Dances, and other Trumpery of the same Nature. In another we found a kind of Powder, which set the whole Company a Sneezing, and by the Scent discovered it self to be right Spanish. The several other Cells were stored with Commodities of the same kind, of which it would be tedious to give the Reader an exact Inventory.""",Rooms and Writing,2013-06-17 20:07:59 UTC,""
7622,Lockean,ECCO-TCP,2013-08-18 04:53:06 UTC,"LUCINUS
As to the first Entry of Ideas into the Mind, you know Aristotle has been blamed for affirming that nothing is in the Understanding which was not before in the Senses. But there seems to be no great danger in that Opinion, if we do not limit the Senses to too small a number. You remember Mr. Locke's Account of their Entry?
AEMILIUS
Not well.
LUCINUS
'Tis to this purpose:
""The Senses at first let in particular Ideas, and furnish the yet empty Cabinet: and the Mind, by degrees growing familiar with some of them, they are lodg'd in the Memory, and Names got to them, &c.""
AEMILIUS
Obscurum per Obscurius. The question is, how this Familiarity arises? and how the Cabinet comes to be sensible of any thing that's put into it? A Scritore knows nothing of the Papers which the careful Banker locks up in it? Or a Glass, tho' it may be said to receive the Image of a Beau, and he really sees somewhat of himself in it; yet it can hardly be said to see any thing of him. It would rather seem the Mind had some native Light of its own, which is awaken'd we know not how, and flies out, as it were, thro' the Senses to the things it apprehends or lays hold on.
(p. 88)",,22341,INTEREST. RICH PASSAGE. Locke cited. USE IN ENTRY.,"""The question is, how this Familiarity arises? and how the Cabinet comes to be sensible of any thing that's put into it? A Scritore knows nothing of the Papers which the careful Banker locks up in it? Or a Glass, tho' it may be said to receive the Image of a Beau, and he really sees somewhat of himself in it; yet it can hardly be said to see any thing of him. It would rather seem the Mind had some native Light of its own, which is awaken'd we know not how, and flies out, as it were, thro' the Senses to the things it apprehends or lays hold on.""",Mirror and Rooms and Writing ,2013-08-18 04:53:26 UTC,""
4702,"",Searching and Reading in Google Books,2014-02-05 22:22:59 UTC,"So for Instance, in Children; they perceive and forget a hundred Things in an Hour; the Brain is so soft that it receives immediately all Impressions like Water or liquid Mud, and retains scarce any of them: All the Traces, Forms or Images which are drawn there, are immediately effaced or closed up again, as though you wrote with your Finger on the Surface of a River or on a Vessel of Oil.
(pp. 255-6)",,23381,"","""So for Instance, in Children; they perceive and forget a hundred Things in an Hour; the Brain is so soft that it receives immediately all Impressions like Water or liquid Mud, and retains scarce any of them: All the Traces, Forms or Images which are drawn there, are immediately effaced or closed up again, as though you wrote with your Finger on the Surface of a River or on a Vessel of Oil.""",Impressions and Writing,2014-02-05 22:22:59 UTC,""