An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke - HTML preview

Chapter V

Of Simple Ideas of Divers Senses

Ideas received both by seeing and touching. The ideas we get by more than one sense are, of

space or extension, figure, rest, and motion. For these make perceivable impressions, both on the

eyes and touch; and we can receive and convey into our minds the ideas of the extension, figure,

motion, and rest of bodies, both by seeing and feeling. But having occasion to speak more at large

of these in another place, I here only enumerate them.