 | Thomas Ebenezer Webb - 1857 - 218 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 ..... There is nothing more evident than that the Ideas of the persons children converse... | |
 | Thomas Ebenezer Webb - 1857 - 214 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 There is nothing more evident than that the Ideas of the persons children converse with... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1868 - 904 Seiten
...' how general words came to be made, seeing that all existing things are particular.' He replies, ' Words become general by being made the signs of general...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... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1868 - 902 Seiten
...' how general words came to be made, seeing that all existing things are particular." He replies, ' Words become general by being made the signs of general...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... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1868 - 588 Seiten
...things are particular.' He replies, ' Words become general by being made the signs of general ideat; and Ideas become general, by separating from them...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 - 1874 - 604 Seiten
...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...conformity to 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... | |
 | David Hume - 1874 - 604 Seiten
...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...conformity to 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... | |
 | John Locke - 1877 - 138 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...the circumstances of time, and place, and any other ideal that may determine them to this or that particular existence. By this way of abstraction they... | |
 | Robert Cleary - 1878 - 240 Seiten
...being made the signs of general ideas. (Sect. 6.) How do ideas become general? — By ABSTRACTION, ie, by separating from them the circumstances of time...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 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...the circumstances of time, and place, and any other idea» that may determine them to this or that particular existence. By this way of abstraction they... | |
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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. 
