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John Locke
An essay concerning human understanding

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blind

   Book,  Chapter
1 I, III | than it does that one born blind (with cataracts which will 2 I, III | This was the case of a blind man I once talked with, 3 I, III | of colours than one born blind. I ask whether any one can 4 I, III | any more than one born blind? And I think nobody will 5 I, III | examination: in which posture of blind credulity, they might be 6 II, II | will also conclude that a blind man hath ideas of colours, 7 II, IV | than a man who, not being blind or deaf, has distinct ideas 8 II, IV | scarlet colour with the blind man I mentioned in another 9 II, IV | clear up the darkness of a blind man’s mind by talking; and 10 II, IX | this:—“Suppose a man born blind, and now adult, and taught 11 II, IX | placed on a table, and the blind man be made to see: quaere, 12 II, IX | and am of opinion that the blind man, at first sight, would 13 II, X | in those of people born blind. The memory of some men, 14 II, XIV | Thus we see that men born blind count time well enough by 15 II, XIV | not. And I ask whether a blind man, who distinguished his 16 II, XXI | wind? The being acted by a blind impulse from without, or 17 II, XXI | of liberty is to hinder blind precipitancy; the principal 18 II, XXII| the ideas of colours to a blind man. And therefore many 19 III, IV | at all understood by a blind man, but the definition 20 III, IV | retina of a man who was blind by a gutta serena, he would 21 III, IV | name already. A studious blind man, who had mightily beat 22 III, IV | demanding what scarlet was? The blind man answered, It was like 23 III, IV | statue may be explained to a blind man by other words, when 24 III, IV | himself to the judgment of a blind man; who being brought where 25 III, IV | soever, would never make a blind man understand it; because 26 III, VI | discovery or comprehension. A blind man may as soon sort things 27 III, IX | the names of colours to a blind man, or sounds to a deaf 28 IV, III | better an argument than if a blind man should be positive in 29 IV, VI | us to know as it is for a blind man to tell in what flower 30 IV, X | universe acted only by that blind haphazard; I shall leave 31 IV, X | better nor wiser than pure blind matter; since to resolve 32 IV, X | accidental unguided motions of blind matter, or into thought 33 IV, X | depending on unguided motions of blind matter, is the same thing: 34 IV, X | determination of the motion of blind matter in or upon our own 35 IV, XII | only made so to us by our blind assent, we are liable to 36 IV, XVI | and embrace ours, with a blind resignation to an authority 37 IV, XX | other guide but accident and blind chance to conduct them to 38 IV, XX | knowledge. They who are blind will always be led by those 39 IV, XX | coherent discourse; or that a blind fortuitous concourse of


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