 | Heinrich Gomperz - 1897 - 122 pages
...it not require some pains and skill(!) to form the general idea of a triangle . . . for it must be neither equilateral, equicrural, nor scalenon, but all and none of these at once. In fact, it is ') Locke, aa O. II, 7, 9. something imperfect, that cannot exist . . . an idea u'herein... | |
 | Heinrich Gomperz - 1897 - 112 pages
...il not require some pains and skill(!) to form the general idea of a triangle . . . for it must be neither equilateral, equicrural, nor scalenon, but all and none of these at oncc. In fact, it is 1) Locke, aa O. U, 7, 9. something imperfect, that cannot cxist . . . an idea... | |
 | Edward Bradford Titchener - 1898 - 342 pages
...concerning Human Understanding of the abstract idea of ideas, a triangle as an imagined figure which is " neither oblique nor rectangle, neither equilateral,...nor scalenon, but all and none of these at once." George Berkeley (1685-1753), who ranks only after Hume in the subtlety of his metaphysical thought,... | |
 | Walter Smith - 1899 - 372 pages
...require," he asks, "some pains and skill to form the general idea of a triangle ; . . . for it must be 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... | |
 | Gustav Spiller - 1902 - 576 pages
...up the matter as regards the general notion of a triangle : " The general idea of a triangle must be neither oblique nor rectangle, neither equilateral,...nor scalenon ; but all and none of these at once" (Human Understanding, 1689, bk. 4, ch. 7, sec. 9). Berkeley, in his Introduction to his Treatise, 1710,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1904 - 632 pages
...idea of a triangle (which is yet none of the abstract, comprehensive, and difficult), for it must be 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 different and... | |
 | John Clark Murray - 1904 - 538 pages
...of a triangle (which is yet none of the most abstract, comprehensive, or difficult) ; for it must be 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... | |
 | George Berkeley - 1904 - 166 pages
...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 ?" 14. Much is here said of the difficulty that abstract ideas carry with them, and the pains and skill... | |
 | Sydney Herbert Mellone, Margaret Drummond - 1907 - 546 pages
...: does it not require some pains and skill to form the general idea of a triangle 1 For it must be neither oblique nor rectangle, neither equilateral,...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... | |
 | Arthur Joseph de Sopper - 1907 - 230 pages
...triangle (which is yet none of the Ce p tnalisme most abstract, comprehensive, and difficult).... must be neither oblique nor rectangle, neither equilateral,...equicrural, nor scalenon; but all and none of these at all" 4 ). Hij vond wel „that it requires some pains and skill to form that idea", maar achtte het... | |
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For example, does it not require some pains and skill to form the 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, equicrural, nor scalenon,... 
