 | John Locke - 1824 - 552 Seiten
...how come we by general terms, or where find we those general natures they are supposed to stand for ? Words become general, by being made the signs of general...conformity to that abstract idea, is (as we call it) of that sort. fy 7. But to deduce this a little more distinctly, it will not perhaps be amiss to trace... | |
 | John Locke - 1824 - 522 Seiten
...for this I do not remember I ever said. But this I say, " ideas become general, by B. 111. c. 3. „ separating from them the circumstances " of time and...existence. By this way of abstraction they are made, B. ic 11. " &c." And to the same purpose I explain § 9. myself in another place. Your lordship says,... | |
 | John Locke - 1828 - 436 Seiten
...how come we by general terms, or where find we those general natures they are supposed to stand for ? Words become general, by being made the signs of general...conformity to 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... | |
 | John Locke - 1828 - 424 Seiten
...how come we by general terms, or where find we those general natures they are supposed to stand for ? Words become general, by being made the signs of general...conformity to 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... | |
 | John Locke - 1828 - 602 Seiten
...how come we by general terms, or where find we those general natures they are supposed to stand for. Words become general, by being made the signs of general...conformity to 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... | |
 | English literature - 1831 - 536 Seiten
...signs of general ideas, and ideas become general by separating them from the circumstances of time, place, and any other ideas that may determine them...in it a conformity to that abstract idea, is, as we say, of that sort. To deduce this a little more distinctly ; — there is nothing more evident than... | |
 | John Locke - 1831 - 458 Seiten
...signs of general ideas, and ideas become general by separating them from the circumstances of time, place, and any other ideas that may determine them...in it a conformity to that abstract idea, is, as we say, of that sort. To deduce this a little more distinctly; — there is nothing more evident than... | |
 | John Locke - 1849 - 588 Seiten
...how come we by general terms, or where find we those general natures they are supposed to stand for? Words become general by being made the signs of general...conformity to 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... | |
 | JOHN MURRAY - 1852 - 786 Seiten
...how come we by general terms, or where find we those general natures they are supposed to stand for? Words become general by being made the signs of general...place, and any other ideas that may determine them to particular existence. By this 222 BOOK III. CHAPTER III. way—of Abstraction—they are made capable... | |
 | John Locke, James Augustus St. John - 1854 - 576 Seiten
...how come we by general terms, or where find we those general natures they are supposed to stand for? Words become general by being made the signs of general...made capable of representing more individuals than cue; each of which having in it a conformity to that abstract idea, is (as we call it) of that sort.... | |
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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. 
