...and emphasize significant qualifications of Locke's account of wit. Locke had said that wit consists "in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy." 51 In the 1704 note Addison quotes Locke's observation and says, "Thus does True wit, as this incomparable...

...verhinden ... : das kann er, der Witz; und nur das.» - 3. Locke, Essay 2,1i,2 = Locke (1979) 8.156: «Ar Wit lying most in the assemblage of Ideas, and putting those together with <juickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant...

...on the difference between wit and judgement, 'wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and puiting those together with quickness and variety, wherein...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy: judgement, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully, one from another,...

...conception of another. Contrary to John Locke, use of figurative language can be more than a show of "wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting...up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy."24 There is increasing theoretical appreciation of the fact that effective figurative linguistic...

...that the two faculties are very different. Wit is a synthetic art, the ability to put together ideas "with quickness and variety, wherein can be found...pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy." Judgment is the analytical ability to take apart ideas "wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to...

...Trennung von Wit/Metaphor und judgement, Irrationalität und Rationalität noch klar zu ziehen schien: For Wit lying most in the assemblage of Ideas, and putting those together widi quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant...

...critics and poets, is that of the most influential philosopher of the age, John Locke, who defines it as 'the Assemblage of Ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety'. Locke is here, however, acting as the spokesperson for the new highly developed and articulate consciousness...

...confronted by a confusion of ideas may bring to bear on them one of two faculties, wit or judgment. Wit lies "most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those...pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy" (Essay, 1 I. 11.2). Locke of course ascribes all works of art, of "entertainment and pleasantry," to...

...— that men who have a great deal of wit and prompt memories have not always the clearest judgment or deepest reason. For, wit lying most in the assemblage...and variety wherein can be found any resemblance or eongraity, thereby to make up pleasant pietores and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the...

...both testify was to crystallise into Locke's enormously influential antithesis of'wit' and 'judgment': Wit lying most in the Assemblage of Ideas, and putting...wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity. . .Judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully Ideas one from...