Single Idea 18258

[catalogued under 12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 3. Representation]

Full Idea

We can have knowledge of what is outside us only through the mediation of ideas in us.

Gist of Idea

We can only know the exterior world via our ideas

Source

Arnauld / Nicole (Logic (Port-Royal Art of Thinking) [1662], p.63), quoted by J. Alberto Coffa - The Semantic Tradition from Kant to Carnap 1 'Conc'

Book Reference

Coffa,J.Alberto: 'The Semantic Tradition from Kant to Carnap' [CUP 1993], p.9