...most abstract, comprehensive, and difficult), for it must be neither oblique, nor rectangle, angle, 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...

...comprehensive, and difficult), for it must be neither oblique, nor rectangle, Gh. 7. Maxims. angle, 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...

...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 are put together. It is true, the mind, in this imperfect state, has need of such ideas, and makes all the haste to them it...

...fictions of the mind. Does it not require some pains to form the general idea of a triangle ? for it must be neither oblique nor rectangle, neither equilateral,...nor scalenon, but all and none of these at once. In short, it is something imperfect, thatcannot exist, — an idea comprising some parts of several different...

...be (a power to form with " some " pains and skill the general idea of a triangle," for instance, " neither oblique, nor rectangle, " neither equilateral,....scalenon, " but all, and none of these at once*") let writers learn to he less dogmatical, and readers to be less implicit. It is undeniable, that there...

...general idea of a triangle (which is yet none of the most abstract, comprehensive and difficult) for it must be neither oblique, nor rectangle, neither equilateral,...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...

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...general idea of a triangle (which is yet none ojfthe most abstract, comprehensive, nnd difficult), for it must be neither oblique, nor rectangle, neither equilateral,...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...

...for it must be neither oblique, nor rectangle, neither equilateral, equicrural, nor scaleiion •; 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...

...description that is here given of the general idea of a triangle, which is, neither oblique, nor rectangle, equilateral, equicrural, nor scalenon, but all and none of these at once ? XIV. Much is here said of the difficulty that abstract ideas carry with them, and the pains and skill...