 | John Locke - 1796 - 554 pages
...fomcthing imperfecl, that cannot exift ; an idea wherein fome parts of feveral different and inconfiftent ideas are put together. It is true, the mind, in this imperfect ftate, has need of fuch ideas, and makes all the hafte to them, it can, for the conveniency of communication... | |
 | John Locke - 1801 - 334 pages
...fomethmg imperfect, that cannot esiil ; an idea xvherein fome parts of feveral different and inconfiftent ideas are put together. It is true, the mind, in this imperfect ftate, has need of fuch ideas, and makes all the hafte to them it can, for the conveniency of communication... | |
 | John Locke - 1805 - 508 pages
...norscalenon; but all and hone of these at otice. In effect, it is something imperfect, that cannot exist ; an idea wherein some parts of several different and inconsistent...ideas, and makes all the haste to them it can, for the convenicney of communication and enlargement of knowledge ; to botli which it is naturally Very much... | |
 | John Locke - 1805 - 520 pages
...; but all and none of these at once. In effect, it is something; imperfect, that .cannot exist ; an idea wherein some parts of several different and inconsistent...has need of such ideas, and .makes all the haste to thetit it can, for the conveniency of communication and enlargement of knowledge; to both which it... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1809 - 530 pages
...essences we know, such as triangu* larity and justice, imperfect ideas, ideas that cannot exist, ideas wherein some parts of several different and inconsistent ideas are put together, according to Mr./ Locke. Thus abstraction becomes as great a mystery in philosophy, as any that religion... | |
 | John Locke - 1813 - 448 pages
...imperfect state, has need of such ideas, and makes all the haste to them it can, for the convenivncy of communication and enlarge*ment of knowledge ; to both which it is naturally very much indined. But yet one has reason to suspect such ideas are marks of our imperfection ; at least this... | |
 | John Locke - 1816 - 1048 pages
...scalenon; but all and none of these at once. In effect, it is something imperfect, that cannot exist ; an idea wherein some parts of several different and inconsistent ideas are put together. IL is true, the mind, in this imperfect state, has need of such ideas, and makes all the haste to them... | |
 | John Locke - 1819 - 468 pages
...scalenon ; but all and none of these at once. In effect, it is something imperfect, that cannot exist; an idea wherein some parts of several different and inconsistent...this imperfect state, has need of such ideas, and mnkus all the haste to them it can, for the conveniency of communication and enlargement of knowledge;... | |
 | John Locke - 1819 - 460 pages
...•; but all and none of these at once. In effect, it is something imper* feet, that cannot exist; an idea wherein some parts of several different and inconsistent...true, the mind, in this imperfect State, has need ofsuch ideas, and makes all the haste to them it can, for the conveniency of communication and enlargement... | |
 | George Berkeley - 1820 - 506 pages
...scalenum ; but all and none of these at once. In effect, it is somewhat imperfeet that cannot exist j an idea, wherein some parts of several different and. inconsistent ideas are put together." — Essay on Human Understanding, b. iv. c. vii. sect. ix. This is the idea which he thinks needful... | |
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... neither oblique nor rectangle, neither equilateral, equicrural, nor scalenon, but all and none of these at once? In effect, it is something imperfect that cannot exist, an idea wherein some parts of several different and inconsistent ideas are put... 
