...and ideas. [I]f we could speak of Things as they are, we must allow, that all the Art of Rhetorick, besides Order and Clearness, all the artificial and...are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong Ideas, and move the Passions, and therefore by mislead the Judgment; and so indeed are perfect cheat: and...

...the sensationalist basis of knowledge from the distracting powers of witty 'Eloquence' which desires to 'insinuate wrong Ideas, move the Passions, and thereby mislead the Judgment', the dominant philosophical development from Locke to Berkeley to Hume centralises imagination and emotion...

...this mistrust: If we would speak of things as they are, we must allow that all the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness, all the artificial and...thereby mislead the judgment, and so indeed are perfect cheats.1* Locke admits that what he calls wit and fancy are nice for entertainment, but trivial and...

...faults. But yet if we would speak of things as they are, we must allow that all the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness; all the artificial and...ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgement; and so indeed are perfect cheats: and therefore, however laudable or allowable oratory may...

...things as they are, we must allow that all the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness . . . [is] for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgement" (3.10.34). In antiquity, as in the Enlightenment and thereafter, the pursuit of truth was...

...Human Understanding: [I]f we would speak of things as they are, we must allow all the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness, all the artificial and...judgment, and so indeed are perfect cheats, and therefore are wholly to be avoided.17 Ironically, the detractors of metaphor could not deny its appeal. Hume,...

...Human Understanding: [I]f we would speak of things as they are, we must allow all the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness, all the artificial and...judgment, and so indeed are perfect cheats, and therefore . . . are wholly to be avoided.'" Ironically, the detractors of metaphor could not deny its appeal....

...University of Minnesota Press, 1981). speak of things as they are, we allow that all the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness; all the artificial and...mislead the judgment; and so indeed are perfect cheats." Even in preaching, metaphor was seen sometimes as a necessary evil, requisite in a sense only to keep...

...quotes John Locke's text in which Locke maintains that all the artificial and figurative applications of words eloquence hath invented, are for nothing...ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgement. (Locke 1959 [1706]: bk. m. chap. X.34) Metaphors are believed to be imprecise, their imprecision...

...scientific prose, and John Locke spoke for many reformers when he complained that rhetoric was invented "for nothing else but to insinuate wrong Ideas, move the Passions, and thereby mislead the Judgment." 40 As John J. Richetti has reiterated, however, the opposition between philosophy and rhetoric cannot...