1 edition of Literature for human understanding. found in the catalog.
Literature for human understanding.
American Council on Education. Intergroup Education in Cooperating Schools.
Published
1948
by American Council on Education in Washington
.
Written in
Edition Notes
Bibliography: p. 56-61.
| Series | Its Work in progress series |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | Z5579 .A46 |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | ix, 61 p. |
| Number of Pages | 61 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL6030300M |
| LC Control Number | 48006519 |
| OCLC/WorldCa | 582026 |
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this in Book I will probably be received more favourably when I have shown where the understanding can get all its ideas from—an account that I contend will be supported by everyone’s own observation and experience.
2. Let us then suppose the mind to have no ideas in it, to be like white paper with nothing written on it. How then.In doing so, he provides empirical evidence of the cognitive benefits of literature and of how readers demonstrate the growth of their drawing on the written testimony of the reader, this book is an important intervention into debates on the value of literature that incorporates understanding in new and imaginative ways.‘idea’ in this book.
It seems to be the best word to stand for whatever is the object of the understanding when a man thinks; I have used it to express whatever is meant by ‘phantasm’, ‘notion’, ‘species’, or whatever it is that the mind 2.
