 | Dugald Stewart - 1814 - عدد الصفحات: 582
...ideas. " Let us " now consider (says he) the Bishop's notion of generalizing. " An idea (he tells us) which, considered in itself, is particular, " becomes general, by being made to represent or stand for all " other particular ideas of the same sort. To make this plain by " an example : Suppose... | |
 | George Berkeley - 1820 - عدد الصفحات: 514
...meaning to our words, and speak only of what we can conceive, I believe we shall acknowledge, that an idea, which considered in itself is particular, becomes general, / by being made to represent or stand for all other particular ideas of the same sort. To make this plain by an example, suppose a... | |
 | George Berkeley - 1820 - عدد الصفحات: 506
...meaning to our words, and speak only of what we can conceive, I believe we shall acknowledge, that an idea, which considered in itself is particular, becomes general, by being made to represent or stand for all other particular ideas of the same sort. To make this plain by an example, suppose a... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1821 - عدد الصفحات: 348
...ideas. "Let us now consider " (says he) the Bishop's notion of generalizing. An idea (he tells " us) which, considered in itself, is particular, becomes general, by " being made to represent or stand for all other particular ideas of the same sort. To make this plain by an example : Suppose (says... | |
 | Thomas Brown - 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 546
...of a kind or sort, independent of the application of the term itself. " An idea," says Berkeley, " which, considered in itself, is particular, becomes general, by being made to represent or stand for all other particular ideas of the same sort ;" and he instances this in the case of a line... | |
 | Thomas Brown - 1826 - عدد الصفحات: 548
...of a kind or sort, independent of the application of the term itself. " An idea," says Berkeley, " which, considered in itself, is particular, becomes general, by being made to represent or stand for all other particular ideas of the same sort ; and he instances this in the case of a line... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1827 - عدد الصفحات: 706
...that there are general ideas, but only that there are abstract general ideas. " An idea," he says, " which, considered in itself, is particular, becomes general, by being made to represent or stand for all other particular ideas of the same sort. To make this plain by an example, suppose a... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - عدد الصفحات: 810
...notion of a kind or sort, independent of the application of the term itself. ' An idea,' says Berkeley, 'which considered in itself is particular, becomes general, by being made to represent or stand for all other particular ideas of the same sort ;' and he instances this in the case of any particular... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - عدد الصفحات: 418
...ideas. " Let us now consider," says he, " the Bishop's notion, of generalizing. An idea (he tells us) which, considered in itself, is particular, becomes general, by being made to represent or stand for all other particular ideas of the same sort. To make this plain by an example : Suppose (says... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - عدد الصفحات: 442
...ideas. " Let us now consider," says he, " the Bishop's notion of generalizing. An idea (he tells us) which, considered in itself, is particular, becomes general, by being made to represent or stand for all other particular ideas of the same sort. To make this plain by an example : Suppose (says... | |
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Now, if we will annex a meaning to our words and speak only of what we can conceive, I believe we shall acknowledge that an idea which, considered in itself, is particular, becomes general by being made to represent or stand for all other particular ideas... 
