“ Your brains are empty when you are born. Appearances, or phenomena, are all the content your minds can receive from your five senses. ”
Jack London, Martin Eden (1909). copier la citation
| Auteur | Jack London |
|---|---|
| Œuvre | Martin Eden |
| Thème | |
| Date | 1909 |
| Langue | Français |
| Référence | |
| Note | Traduit par Claude Cendrée |
| Lien web | https://beq.ebooksgratuits.com/classiques/London-Martin.pdf |
Contexte
“The best of it is that that is precisely what you claim. To-night, again and again, you have asserted the non-existence of innate ideas.
“ And what does that mean? It means that you can never know ultimate reality. Your brains are empty when you are born. Appearances, or phenomena, are all the content your minds can receive from your five senses. Then noumena, which are not in your minds when you are born, have no way of getting in – ” “ I deny – ”
“ You wait till I’m done, ” “ You can know only that much of the play and interplay of force and matter as impinges in one way or another on our senses.” source
“ And what does that mean? It means that you can never know ultimate reality. Your brains are empty when you are born. Appearances, or phenomena, are all the content your minds can receive from your five senses. Then noumena, which are not in your minds when you are born, have no way of getting in – ” “ I deny – ”
“ You wait till I’m done, ” “ You can know only that much of the play and interplay of force and matter as impinges in one way or another on our senses.” source
