 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1841 - 550 pages
...since our understanding frames them. Nothing can be more true than what Mr. Locke himself confesses, that "general and universal belong not to the real...and concern only signs, whether words or ideas."* On this principle I proceed; but it will not carry me to all the consequences my master, for such I... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1841 - 540 pages
...since our understanding frames them. Nothing can be more true than what Mr. Locke himself confesses, that "general and universal belong not to the real...and concern only signs, whether words or ideas."* On this principle I proceed; but it will not carry me to all the consequences my master, for such I... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1847 - 666 pages
...Berkeley's, had not the foregoing quotations contained 10 explicit declaration of the contrary. " To return to general words, it is plain, by what has...Words are general, as has been said, when used for •igns of general ideas, and so are applicable iinlilii n-nil v to many particular thingi ; and ideas... | |
 | Claude Henri Victor Cousin - 1852 - 464 pages
...understanding, and that real essence is nothing else than nominal essence. Book III. Chap. III. § 2 : " General and universal belong not to the real existence...use, and concern only signs, whether words or ideas." You see it is the very foundation of nominalism. It is important to examine, although succinctly, this... | |
 | Victor Cousin - 1853 - 444 pages
...understanding, and that real essence is nothing else than nominal essence. Book III. Chap. III. § 2 : " General and universal belong not to the real existence...use, and concern only signs, whether words or ideas." You see it is the very foundation of nominalism. It is important to examine, although succinctly, this... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 536 pages
...Berkeley's, had not the foregoing quotations contained an explicit declaration of the contrary. " To return to general words, it is plain, by what has...understanding, made by it for its own use, and concern only sign.-.. whether words or ideas. Words are general, as has been said, when used fur sigui of general... | |
 | John Horne Tooke - 1860 - 812 pages
...with all those very particular things which had fallen under my notice." — And again, sect. 11. — "General and Universal belong not to the real existence...made by it for its own use, and concern only signs. Universality belongs not to things themselves, which are all of them particular in their existence.... | |
 | John Horne Tooke - 1857 - 812 pages
...all those very particular things which had fallen under my notice." — And again, sect. 11. — " General and Universal belong not to the real existence...Understanding, made by it for its own use, and concern only sirjns. Universality belongs not to things themselves, which are all of them particular in their existence.... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1871 - 592 pages
...knowledge." That he was not a Realist appears from the following (B. III.,e. iii.>§ 11 sqq.) : * * "It is plain by what has been said, that General and...use, and concern only signs, whether words or ideas." " When therefore we quit particulars the generals that rest [remain] are creatures of our own making,... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1873 - 730 pages
...Qtnerai and Universal, belong not to the real existence of things ; but are the invention* and creature* of the understanding, made by it for its own use, and concern only signs, whether words or ideas." u When therefore we quit particulars tho generaU that rest [remain] arc creatures of our own making,... | |
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... general and universal, belong not to the real existence of things ; but are the inventions and creatures of the understanding, made by it for its own use, and concern only signs, whether words or ideas. 
