 | Alexander Bain - 1882 - 576 Seiten
...general words came to be made, seeing that all existing things are particular.' Ho replies, ' Werds 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... | |
 | 1884 - 836 Seiten
...name." (Essay oit Hum. Uiiil.. B. II, c. 23.) Words stand for ideas only (B. III., c. 2, § 4), but " words become general by being made the signs of general...from them the circumstances of time, and place, and an v other ideas that may determine them to this or that particular existence. By this way of abstraction... | |
 | Thomas Ebenezer Webb - 1885 - 400 Seiten
...elsewhere expresses it, are determined to be of that " sort " (in. iii. 6, 12). " Ideas", he says, " become general by separating from them the circumstances...determine them to this or that particular existence " (in. iii. 6). This process of abstraction he regards as the prerogative of man ; and he delights... | |
 | Thomas Hill Green - 1885 - 580 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... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1887 - 738 Seiten
...we come into possession of words, or how «>8tence °f . . general ideas. we can separate irom ideas the circumstances of time and place and any other...determine them to this or that particular existence — it seems preferable to adopt an historical course and to let Berkeley, Locke's immediate successor,... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1887 - 362 Seiten
...existence of we come into possession of words, nor how general , . , . ideas. we can separate from ideas the circumstances of time and place and any other...determine them to this or that particular existence — it seems preferable to adopt an historical course and to let Berkeley, Locke's immediate successor,... | |
 | John Dewey - 1888 - 302 Seiten
...proceeds, by abstracting some of these qualities, towards the simple. Or, in Locke's own language, "ideas become general by separating from them the...and any other ideas that may determine them to this and that particular . existence." And, still more definitely, he says that general ideas are framed... | |
 | David Hume - 1890 - 598 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 - 1891 - 176 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. But, to deduce this a little more distinctly, it will not perhaps be amiss to trace our... | |
 | John Locke - 1892 - 566 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... | |
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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. 
