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...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,...stand for all other particular ideas of the same sort. To make this plain by an example, suppose a geometrician is demonstrating the method of cutting a line...

...generalizing. An idea (he tells u ,us) which, considered in itself, is particular, becomes general, by u being made to represent or stand for all other particular ideas of •• the same sort. To make this plain by an example : Suppose (says " Berkeley) a geometrician is demonstrating the method...

...generalizing. An idea (he tells " us) which, considered in itself, is particular, becomes general, by u being made to represent or stand for all other particular ideas of t: the same sort. To make this plain by an example : Suppose (says '• Berkeley) a geometrician is...

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...of a kind or sort, independent of the application of the term itself. " An idea," says Berkeley, " which, considered in itself, is particular, becomes...for all other particular ideas of the same sort;" and he instances this in the case of a line of any particular length,—an inch, for example,— which,...

...words to that which is made of letters in algebra; and conceives that as an idea which is in itself particular, becomes general, by being made to represent...stand for all other particular ideas of the same sort, and as that particular idea becomes general by being made a sign, so the name by being a sign is made...

...words to that which is made of letters in algebra; and conceives that as an idea which is in itself particular, becomes general, by being made to represent...stand for all other particular ideas of the same sort, and as that particular idea becomes general by being made a sign, so the name by being a sign is made...

...that there are general ideas, but only that there are abstract general ideas. " An idea," he says, " which, considered in itself, is particular, becomes...stand for all other particular ideas of the same sort. To make this plain by an example, suppose a geometrician is demonstrating the method of cutting a line...