 Now if we will annex a meaning to our words, and speak only of what we can conceive, I believe we shall acknowledge, that an idea, which considered in itself is particular, becomes general, by being made to represent or stand for all other particular...  Dogmatism and Evolution: Studies in Modern Philosophy - Page 195by Theodore De Laguna, Grace Mead Andrus De Laguna - 1910 - 259 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Dugald Stewart - 1814 - 582 pages
...ideas. " Let us " now consider (says he) the Bishop's notion of generalizing. " An idea (he tells us) which, considered in itself, is particular, " becomes...sort. To make this plain by " an example : Suppose (says Berkeley) a geometrician is demon" strating the method of cutting a line into two equal parts.... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1821 - 348 pages
...ideas. "Let us now consider " (says he) the Bishop's notion of generalizing. An idea (he tells " us) which, considered in itself, is particular, becomes...same sort. To make this plain by an example : Suppose (says Berkeley) a geometrician is demonstrating the method of cutting a line into two equal parts.... | |
 | Thomas Brown - 1822 - 546 pages
...of a kind or sort, independent of the application of the term itself. " An idea," says Berkeley, " which, considered in itself, is particular, becomes...stand for all other particular ideas of the same sort ;" and he instances this in the case of a line of any particular length, — an inch, for example,... | |
 | David Welsh - 1825 - 612 pages
...words to that which is made of letters in algebra ; and conceives that as an idea which is in itself particular, becomes general, by being made to represent...stand for all other particular ideas of the same sort, and as that particular idea becomes general by being made a sign, so the name by being a sign is made... | |
 | Thomas Brown - 1826 - 548 pages
...of a kind or sort, independent of the application of the term itself. " An idea," says Berkeley, " which, considered in itself, is particular, becomes...stand for all other particular ideas of the same sort ; and he instances this in the case of a line of any particular length, — an inch, for example, —... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 418 pages
...ideas. " Let us now consider," says he, " the Bishop's notion, of generalizing. An idea (he tells us) which, considered in itself, is particular, becomes...same sort. To make this plain by an example : Suppose (says Berkeley) a geometrician is demonstrating the method of cutting •a line into two equal parts.... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 442 pages
...ideas. " Let us now consider," says he, " the Bishop's notion of generalizing. An idea (he tells us) which, considered in itself, is particular, becomes...same sort. To make this plain by an example : Suppose (says Berkeley) a geometrician is demonstrating the method of cutting a line into two equal parts.... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 810 pages
...notion of a kind or sort, independent of the application of the term itself. ' An idea,' says Berkeley, 'which considered in itself is particular, becomes...stand for all other particular ideas of the same sort ;' and he instances this in the case of any particular length, an inch, for example; which, to a geometer,... | |
 | Ernst Reinhold - 1829 - 612 pages
...speak only of what we can conceive, 1 believe we shall acknowledge, that an idea, which consider'd in itself is particular, becomes general, by being...represent or stand for all other particular ideas of llie same sort. • 2J 1. CPIJ 1—4. ii!af)vgcncmnmieá SDafcim jufcfcrcfbt. SS? а в finb tenir... | |
 | George Berkeley - 1843 - 548 pages
...always supposed that they are formed by abstraction, after the manner set forth in Sect. vin. and ix. Now if we will annex a meaning to our words, and speak...stand for all other particular ideas of the same sort. $0?' To make this plain by an example, suppose a geometrician is demonstrating the method of cutting... | |
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