 | J. JOHNSON - 1801 - 374 pages
...as we are apt to imagine. For example, does it not require some pains and skill to form the general idea of a triangle (which is yet none of the most...difficult), for it must be neither oblique, nor rectangle, angle, neither equilateral, equicrural, nor scalenon; but all and none of these at once. In effect,... | |
 | John Locke - 1805 - 520 pages
...as we are apt to imagine, lor example, does it not require some pains and skill to form the general idea of a triangle (which is yet none of the most...difficult), for it must be neither oblique, nor rectangle, Gh. 7. Maxims. angle, neither equilateral, equicrural, nor scalenon ; but all and none of these at... | |
 | John Locke - 1808 - 346 pages
...being fictions of the mind. Does it not require some pains to form the general idea of a triangle ? for it must be neither oblique nor rectangle, neither...equilateral, equicrural, nor scalenon, but all and none of these at once. In short, it is something imperfect, thatcannot exist, — an idea comprising some... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1809 - 434 pages
...be (a power to form with " some " pains and skill the general idea of a triangle," for instance, " neither oblique, nor rectangle, " neither equilateral,. equicrural, nor scalenon, " but all, and none of these at once*") let writers learn to he less dogmatical, and readers to be less implicit. It is... | |
 | John Locke - 1813 - 448 pages
...as we are apt to imagine. For example, does it not require some pains and skill to form the general idea of a triangle (which is yet none of the most...equilateral, equicrural, nor scalenon ; but all and none of these at once ? In effect, it is something imperfect, that cannot exist ; an idea wherein some parts... | |
 | John Locke - 1819 - 468 pages
...to form the general idea of a triangle (which is yet none ojfthe most abstract, comprehensive, nnd difficult), for it must be neither oblique, nor rectangle,...equilateral, equicrural, nor scalenon ; but all and none of these at once. In effect, it is something imperfect, that cannot exist; an idea wherein some parts... | |
 | John Locke - 1819 - 460 pages
...require some pains and skill to form the general idea of a triangle (which is yet none of the tirost abstract, comprehensive, and difficult), for it must...nor rectangle, neither equilateral, equicrural, nor scaleiion •; but all and none of these at once. In effect, it is something imper* feet, that cannot... | |
 | George Berkeley - 1820 - 506 pages
...as we are apt to imagine. For example, does it not require some pains and skill to form the general idea of a triangle ? (which is yet none of the most...equilateral, equicrural, nor scalenon, but all and none of these at once. In effect, it is something imperfect that cannot exist, an idea wherein some parts... | |
 | George Berkeley - 1820 - 514 pages
...as we are apt to imagine. For example, does it not require sonic pains and skill to form the general idea of a triangle ? (which is yet none of the most...equilateral, equicrural, nor scalenon, but all and none of these at once. In effect, it is something imperfect that cannot exist, an idea wherein some parts... | |
 | Thomas Brown - 1822 - 546 pages
...Locke, in this often-quoted passage — " Does it not require some pains and skill to form the general idea of a triangle, (which is yet none of the most...neither equilateral, equicrural, nor scalenon ; but a//, and none .of these at once. In effect, it is something imperfect that cannot exist ; an idea,... | |
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... neither oblique nor rectangle, neither equilateral, equicrural, nor scalenon, but all and none of these at once? In effect, it is something imperfect that cannot exist, an idea wherein some parts of several different and inconsistent ideas are put... 
