 | Dugald Stewart - 1814 - 582 pages
...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 - 514 pages
...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 - 506 pages
...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 - 348 pages
...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 - 546 pages
...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 - 548 pages
...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 - 706 pages
...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 - 810 pages
...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 - 418 pages
...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 - 442 pages
...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... 
