 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...  The Science of Thought - Page 264by Friedrich Max Müller - 1887 - 664 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...for all " other particular ideas of the same sort. To make this plain by " an example : Suppose (says Berkeley) a geometrician is demon" strating the... | |
 | George Berkeley - 1820 - 514 pages
...that they are formed by abstraction, after the manner set forth in sect. viii. and ix. Now if we will annex a meaning to our words, and speak only of what...stand for all other particular ideas of the same sort. To make this plain by an example, suppose a geometrician is demonstrating the method of cutting a line... | |
 | 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...stand for all other particular ideas of the same sort. To make this plain by an example : Suppose (says Berkeley) a geometrician is demonstrating the method... | |
 | 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, —... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1827 - 706 pages
...that there are general ideas, but only that there are abstract general ideas. " An idea," he says, " which, considered in itself, is particular, becomes...stand for all other particular ideas of the same sort. To make this plain by an example, suppose a geometrician is demonstrating the method of cutting a line... | |
 | 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...stand for all other particular ideas of the same sort. To make this plain by an example : Suppose (says Berkeley) a geometrician is demonstrating the method... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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...stand for all other particular ideas of the same sort. To make this plain by an example : Suppose (says Berkeley) a geometrician is demonstrating the method... | |
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