...MM. • "The word 'idea' . . being that term which I think serves best to stand for whatsoever is the object of the understanding when a man thinks, I have...notion, species, or whatever it is which the mind can bo employed about in thinking." — John Locke. "The word 'idea,' asone prostituted to all meanings,...

...serves best to stand for whatever is the object of the understanding when a man thinks, I have used to express whatever is meant by phantasm, notion, species, or whatever it is the mind can be employed about in thinking ; and I could not avoid frequently using it " (Essay, introd.,...

...secures several advantages. Locke says the term 'idea' 'serves best to stand for whatsoever is the object of the understanding when a man thinks; I have...notion, species, or whatever it is which the mind may be employed about in thinking.' 1 Hume distinguishes between impressions and ideas. By ' impressions'...

...the first chapter he takes great pains to define his use of the word " idea," explaining that he uses it " to express whatever is meant by phantasm, notion, species, or whatever it is that the mind can be employed about in thinking." He takes it for granted, as a premise, that there...

...think, serves best to stand for whatsoever is the object of the understanding when a man thinks,<l have used it to express whatever is meant by phantasm,...species, or whatever it is which the mind can be employed -qbout in thinking ; and I could not avoid frequently using it *./ i It has been well said, that this...

...the word 'Idea' thus It being that Term, which, I think, serves best to stand for whatsoever is the Object of the Understanding when a Man thinks, I have...Species, or whatever it is, which the Mind can be employ \i about in thinking. . . (Ii8) 'Phantasm', 'Notion', and 'Species' mean three different things...

...Concerning Understanding II 1). Locke remarks on his own use of the term "idea" that it stands for "whatever is meant by phantasm, notion, species or...which the mind can be employed about in thinking." He presumes that it will be easily granted that such items are to be found in the mind. The passage...

...the following treatise. It being that term which, I think, serves best to stand for whatsoever is the object of the understanding when a man thinks, I have...which the mind can be employed about in thinking; and I could not avoid frequently using it."2 Locke tries to reduce the vagueness by classifying ideas...

...Essay. "It being that Term," he writes, "which, I think, serves best to stand for whatsoever is the Object of the Understanding when a Man thinks, I have...Species, or whatever it is, which the Mind can be employ'd about in thinking" (E Ii8: 47). Later, in another passage in which he is self-consciously...

...as the word which stands for "whatsoever is the object of the understanding when a man thinks, . . . whatever is meant by phantasm, notion, species, or...which the mind can be employed about in thinking." 2 But surely this broader definition includes the "images of things" of which Descartes speaks; and...