 | Thomas Ebenezer Webb - Idea (Philosophy) - 1857 - 218 pages
...Signs of General Ideas ; and Ideas become general by separating from them the circumstances of time and place, and any other Ideas that may determine them...that Abstract Idea, is (as we call it) of that sort ..... There is nothing more evident than that the Ideas of the persons children converse with (to instance... | |
 | Thomas Ebenezer Webb - Idea (Philosophy) - 1857 - 214 pages
...Signs of General Ideas ; and Ideas become general by separating from them the circumstances of time and place, and any other Ideas that may determine them...that Abstract Idea, is (as we call it) of that sort There is nothing more evident than that the Ideas of the persons children converse with (to instance... | |
 | Alexander Bain - Ethics - 1868 - 902 pages
...signs of general ideas; and Ideas become general, by separating from them the circumstances of Time and Place, and any other ideas that may determine them to this or that particular existence.' He goes on to say :— Children know nothing but particulars; at first they know, for example, a small... | |
 | David Hume - Knowledge, Theory of - 1874 - 604 pages
...ideas that may determine it to this or that particular existence. By this way of abstraction it is made capable of representing more individuals than...that abstract idea, is (as we call it) of that sort.' (Book in. chap. iii. sec. 6.) That which is given in immediate experience, as he proceeds to explain,... | |
 | David Hume - Knowledge, Theory of - 1874 - 604 pages
...ideas that may determine it to this or that particular existence. By this way of abstraction it is made capable of representing more individuals than...that abstract idea, is (as we call it) of that sort.' (Book in. chap. iii. sec. 6.) That which is given in immediate experience, as he proceeds to explain,... | |
 | John Locke - 1877 - 138 pages
...ideas become general by separating from them the circumstances of time, and place, and any other ideal that may determine them to this or that particular...that abstract idea, is (as we call it) of that sort. 7. But, to deduce this a little more distinctly, it will not perhaps be amiss to trace our notions... | |
 | Robert Cleary - 1878 - 240 pages
...ideas become general? — By ABSTRACTION, ie, by separating from them the circumstances of time and place, and any other ideas that may determine them to this or that particular existence.* In considering this matter a little more distinctly, Locke gives an instance which shows the various... | |
 | John Locke - 1879 - 722 pages
...ideas become general by separating from them the circumstances of time, and place, and any other idea» that may determine them to this or that particular...that abstract idea, is (as we call it) of that sort. 7. But, to deduce this a little more distinctly, it will not perhaps be amiss to trace our notions... | |
 | Alexander Bain - Philosophy - 1882 - 576 pages
...of general ideas ; and Ideas become general, by separating from them the circumstances of Time and Place, and any other ideas that may determine them to this or that particular existence.' He goes on to say : — Children know nothing but particulars; at first they know, for example, a small... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1884 - 836 pages
...ideas ; and ideas become general by separating from them the circumstances of time, and place, and an v other ideas that may determine them to this or that...representing more individuals than one, each of which has a conformity to that abstract idea." (B. III., c. 3. ? G. ) Names (g 7) are at first particular... | |
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Words become general by being made the signs of general ideas; and ideas become general by separating from them the circumstances of time and place and any other ideas that may determine them to this or that particular existence. 
